JOHOR BARU: Bangladeshi Md Masud Rana Md Mofizuddin has been sentenced to death after the High Court found him guilty of killing seven members of a family six years ago.
Judge Datuk Azahar Mohamed has ordered Md Masud to be hanged to death for the seven charges of murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code. The 33-year-old accused remained calm and did not show any emotion when an interpreter translated the sentence to him.
In his judgement, Azahar said the prosecution had proven beyond doubt that the accused had committed the crime and the defence failed to create reasonable doubts on the evidences presented to the court.
He said it was his finding that Md Masud was fully conscious of what he was doing and not suffering from any mental illnesses, based on psychiatrist examinations.
"After considering the injuries on all seven deceased and post mortem report, it is my finding that the accused possessed the intention of causing such injuries which were sufficient to cause death,'' he said.
He also commended the Johor Baru Selatan police investigating team led by the then CID chief Supt Zainal Rashid Abu Bakar for a job well done.
Md Masud is jointly charged with Razaul Karim Mohd Soleman Ali Fakir, 38, for murdering seven people at a house in Taman Johor Jaya here, between 1.41am and 7.43am on July 28, 2001. Razaul was acquitted on June 2, last year, on the grounds that there was no evidence against him.
The victims were K. Mangala Gowri, 42, S. Muniandi, 71, B. Vasagi, 27, S. Suppiah Amudavalli, 45, S.S.S. Perumal, 49, S.S. Letchimee, 51, and S. Ramaiee, 65.
In the prosecution team were Deputy Public Prosecutor Abdul Rasid Sudin, Mohd Nordin Ismail and Ahmad Akram Gharib while the accused was represented by the assigned lawyer S. Vijayaretnam.
Vijayaretnam would be filing for an appeal at the Court of Appeal soon
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