Cradle CEO received death threat

Cops say Nazrin made a police report but later withdrew it

SUNGAI BULOH: Police have investigated the death threat that Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan received three months before his murder, said Comm Datuk Mazlan Mansor.

The Selangor police chief confirmed police received the report but investigations showed it was an internal family matter as the threat came from one of Nazrin’s relatives.

“We received the report but it is not in line with our current murder investigation.

“He (Nazrin) also withdrew the report,” he said after witnessing the handing over ceremony for the Sungai Buloh OCPD’s post yesterday.

Supt S. Somu handed over the reigns as OCPD to Supt Shafa’aton Abu Bakar, who is the first female OCPD in Selangor.

On the results of the second post-mortem, Comm Mazlan said police are still waiting for the report from the pathologists.

“We should give them time to fully complete the report.

“We should not rush them,” he said

The Malaysian Insight reported that Nazrin received an anonymous phone call threatening his life three months before his murder.

Quoting sources, the portal claimed that Nazrin took the death threat seriously and lodged a report with the police.

The police later traced the phone call to a close relative.

Nazrin, 45, died in a fire at his double- storey house on June 14.

He had 30% burns on his body. Police reclassified the case as murder following a forensic investigation by the Fire and Rescue Department. On Oct 8, Nazrin’s remains were exhumed for a second post-mortem.

Pathologists at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre are in the midst of preparing the full report on the second post-mortem.

Several people have since been remanded and released in the murder investigation, including Nazrin’s widow, her ex-husband, a married couple related to his widow and two teenagers.

Meanwhile, on another matter, Comm Mazlan said the police are concerned about a recent spate of abuse and rape cases involving children, especially babies.

“We are taking action by bringing the culprits to justice, but I fear the root of the problem is prevalent social ills.

“We hope the public will be more careful and vigilant as to who they hire as their children’s caretaker,” he said.

One of the saddest cases was in Kajang, where a nine-month-old baby girl died after she was believed to have been sexually abused.

A married couple providing babysitting services have since been arrested.

“They will be remanded until Nov 19.

“We believe we have a strong case to prosecute them when the time comes,” he said.