MALAYSIA: LOCAL MAN TO HANG FOR MURDER OF SCHOOLGIRL

Malaysian High Court Judge Datuk Clement Skinner sentenced a 31-year-old unemployed local to death by hanging for murdering a nine-year-old schoolgirl. Jamaludin Saripudin was found guilty of killing Haserawati Sarioi Saridi on January 8, 2004, in the bushes on a hill slope in Menggatal. The court heard that before he raped Haserawati he repeatedly stabbed her with a knife to silence her.