Four-day remand for suspected robber to facilitate investigation

MIRI: A man arrested on suspicion of robbing a foreign woman here was ordered by a magistrate’s court yesterday to be remanded for four days to facilitate further police investigation.

Magistrate Zuraini Ali Musa made the order after approving the application by investigating officer, Sergeant Zainurin Zainol from Miri Central Police Station.

Zainurin in his application said on March 20, a Belarusian woman had lodged a report at Miri Central Police Station, alleging that around 4am, the same day, while walking alone from the condominium where she lived, to a grocery store opposite a school in Brighton Road, she was approached by two unidentified men riding a motorcycle.

One of the men ordered her to hand over her backpack. When she refused the suspect took out a knife and grabbed her handphone before fleeing the scene.

Acting on information received, around 3.30pm on March 27, police arrested the second suspect at a food stall in Piasau Road here,

The suspect was taken to Miri Central Police Station for further action.

In his application, Zainurin said the remand for seven days under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code on the suspect, 24, from Pujut Padang Kerbau here is needed to conduct detailed investigation including taking cautioned statement from the suspect who has previous records of criminal offences.

The court however allowed four days remand until April 1.