The events of the disappearances ...

1)   Nurin Jazlin Jazimin

It began with an innocent visit to the night market.

       On the evening of August 20^th 2007, 8-year old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin asked her mother for permission to run down to the neighbourhood’s night market. She wanted to buy hair clips for herself. Her mother, Norazian Bistaman, was entertaining a guest at that time. She said okay, thinking that Nurin was going to be accompanied by her younger sister. Her daughters usually went out either in a buddy-system or in groups. It never occurred to her that Nurin had decided to venture out by herself.

       

     On September 17^th, a company supervisor in Petaling Jaya stumbled across a large Diadora sports bag outside the company premises when she came to open the store. It was Monday morning. She initially thought the bag belonged to her employer who had just returned from a trip. But when the general manager of the company arrived 30 minutes later, it was discovered that the bag did not belong to him. Upon opening the bag to search for identification or clues to the owner, to his horror, he found a body within. He immediately alerted the police.

What followed next was a series of media circus.

      The body in the bag was a female child, aged between 6 and 8. She had been sexually-assaulted and strangled. Reports confirmed that she died approximately 6 hours prior to being transported to the “dump site”. Nurin’s parents were alerted immediately. They rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for the identification procedure, barely able to brace themselves for the impending nightmare. Due to severe physical changes on the body caused by trauma, the husband and wife were unable to recognize her. They did not think it was Nurin. The body was initially presumed to be of a foreign child.

      At present, Nurin’s murder remains an open investigation. The police are convinced that they will find a lead. It’s just a matter of time, good old police work and patience. Jazimin, his wife and his family and relatives are still hopeful that the police will apprehend the person responsible. They are hoping that justice will prevail.