Late Nurin Jazlin remembered on her birthday

Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM, CHOW HOW BAN and R. ARAVINTHAN

SOCIAL media users expressed their sympathy with Jazimin Abdul Jalil, who posted a birthday wish for his daughter Nurin Jazlin, whose horrific murder shocked the country in 2007.

Sinar Harian reported that he had posted a photo of his daughter on Facebook with a message that read: “Happy 24th birthday to my child, Kak Ngah. Miss you Sept 11, 1999 to Sept 17, 2007.”

Facebook users shared their sadness and said it was hard to forget that dark episode of Malaysian history.

Pok Joe said the incident should never be forgotten, while Hafiz Adha said he was 15 years old at the time and had burst into tears reading about it.

Nurin Jazlin was eight years old when she went missing at a pasar malam near her home in Wangsa Maju. A month later, her body was found stuffed into a gym bag, with signs she had been brutally tortured and sexually abused.

The horrific circumstances surrounding her death stunned the entire nation and garnered intense media coverage, also leading to the creation of the Talian Nur child abuse hotline at 15999.

Her murder has never been solved.

> A businessman in Tanah Merah, Kelantan was taken aback after seeing a photo on social media of his wife, who had been missing since January, marrying another man.

Kosmo! reported that the 47-year-old man said his wife married another man in April at the Besut Syariah Court, Terengganu, after having been missing for months.

The man then filed for “faraq” (separation or dissolution) of the marriage between his wife and the other man, aged 42, at the Tanah Merah Lower Syariah Court on Wednesday.

“I never divorced her after we were married in January 2019, and suddenly, she went missing in January this year.

“We got married in Narathiwat, Thailand and the marriage was confirmed by the Syariah Court here last June, and has been registered at the Tanah Merah Religious Office,” the man said.

Earlier, he had attended a proceeding at the Lower Syariah Court for a divorce demand filed by his wife.

The man denied ever pronouncing talaq (divorce) and has been ordered by the Syariah Court to take up sumpah laknat (swearing in the face of divine retribution) by Oct 8.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.