Ketum juice, drugs may have caused man to kill son – cops

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have not ruled out the possibility of ketum juice and drugs being among the reasons why a man had resorted to slashing his fiveyear-old son at a flat in Puchong Permai on Monday.

During the incident, the boy was said to be sleeping in the living room of the flat located on the fourth floor of the building when the 35-year-old suspect, struck his son on his head and right wrist with a machete.

Subang Jaya police chief ACP Mohammad Azlin Sadari said initial investigations showed that the suspect was a “heavy drinker” of ketum juice and had also tested positive for Methamphetamine (syabu) during a urine test.

“After killing the victim, the suspect was said to have placed his son’s body outside the front door of their flat and then locked himself in. The suspect also claimed that he killed his son after he heard a voice telling him to do so,” he said yesterday.

Mohammad Azlin said the suspect had been detained and police had found the machete.

Meanwhil, relatives at the crime scene said the suspect to be a doting father and his five-year-old son was the apple of his eye, but was under the influence of drugs and that had led him to do the unthinkable – killing his son with a parang.

“I just cannot believe that he killed his son. He has always been a loving, caring father … a good person,” said a 46- year-old cousin of the father.-Bernama