Palembang (ANTARA) – The police have arrested a fugitive in a case of the sadistic murder of a discotheque visitor in Palembang, South Sumatra.
Head of the Palembang Polrestabes, Police Commissioner Mokhamad Ngajib, in Palembang, Thursday, said the suspect was Anton Sujarwo (35), a resident of Alang-alang Lebar District, Palembang.
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He was arrested by personnel from the Sukarame Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Tuesday (29/11) at his home, after eight months of fleeing to Medan, North Sumatra.
“Anton is a suspect in the murder in a commotion at an entertainment venue or disco last March,” he said, the suspect currently being detained at the Sukarame Police Office for further investigation.
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Ngajib explained that at that time Sujarwo and several of his friends were involved in a commotion with the victim with the initials AS (54) while visiting an entertainment venue on Jalan Soekarno-Hatta.
Based on Sujarwo’s confession to investigators, the commotion was sparked by a difference in understanding between the group of suspects and the victim who were drinking alcohol while doing karaoke.
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Then from the commotion the situation heated up, he continued, because they were all heavily drunk which led to the stabbing of the victim who was a private worker in Palembang.
“After the victim was battered and bruised, this suspect took the victim’s life sadistically by drawing a large kitchen knife into the back of the right side of the waist until bleeding occurred which killed the victim,” he said.
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In this incident, the police confiscated evidence, a kitchen knife with a white handle, the results of the post mortem et repertum of the corpse, and the clothes belonging to the victim.
For his actions, Sujarwo. subject to Article 338 of the Criminal Code concerning aggravated murder, the threat of imprisonment for 15 years.
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