マレーシア・ニュース
署名実らず死刑執行
シンガポール ： 昨日の早朝、幼児殺人の罪で死刑が決まりチャンギ刑務所に待機していたトゥック・レン・ハウ死刑囚（24）の死刑が執行された。トゥック氏は2004年の10月に8歳になる中国人の子供を殺害し、去年の8月に絞首刑による死刑が決まった。死刑の2週間前にトゥック氏は何とか死刑の取りやめは出来ないかと発言したが、却下された。警察は殺人の動機について調査したが、結局動機の解明はできなかった。トゥック氏には3歳になる子供と奥さんがいるが、自分のことは忘れて母国のインドネシアに帰り、結婚して幸せになってくれと死刑の1週間前に伝えたそうだ。十分な反省が見られる中、なぜ悲惨な事件を起こしてしまったのか、謎は究明できないままである。彼を助けようとする３万４千名の署名も無駄となってしまった。死刑執行後、彼の遺体は家族のもとに引き渡された。
死刑執行されたトゥック死刑囚（24）
[ 11月4日 12：46 MCS]
ニュース・ソース
Convicted killer hanged
SINGAPORE : Convicted child killer Took Leng How was
hanged at Changi Prison yesterday morning.
Took,24,a Penangite who worked here as a vegetable packer,was convicted
of killing eight-year-old Chinese national Huang Na at the Pasir Panjang
Wholesale Center in October 2004 and sentenced to the gallows in August
last year.
Took's hanging came about two weeks after his bid for clemency was rejected
by the President,closing the chapter on one of the most closely watched
murder cases in Singapore.
Took filed an appeal shortly after his conviction but in January this
year the Court of Appeal upheld the death sentence in a split two-to-one
decision,prompting his family to start a campaign to save him from the
gallows.
As many as 34,000 signatures were collected in support for the petition
for clemency.
Huang Na's disappearance from the wholesale market in October 2004 sparked
a massive search by the police and volunteers.
The police had also questioned Took in connection with the murder. He
later fled Singapore for Malaysia,sparking a nationwide search for him
by the Malaysian police.
Took,who has a three-year-old son,later surrendered to the police here
and led them to Huang Na's naked and decomposed body,which was stuffed
in a box in a hill park several kilometers from the market.
Last week,media reports here quoted a family member as saying that Took
was mentally prepared to die and asked his wife,Yuli,24,to go back to
Indonesia and remarry.
"He had given up all hope and says that after his death,his wife
should remarry and forget about him,"The New Paper quoted
a family member as saying.
After his execution yesterday,his body was released to family members.
- Bernama
＜4-11-2006 The Star＞
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