SHAH ALAM: For six months, two kuih sellers sold their wares side by side at a commercial area in Section 27 Shah Alam.
However, the spectre of jealousy soon reared it head as one of the traders began enjoying better business than the other.
Last Thursday, the less successful trader, in his 30s, rang up his rival and invited him to his flat in Taman Megah, Section 27. The meeting between the two Bangladeshis was purportedly to discuss some debts they owed each other.
However, instead of discussing business, the host attacked his guest. He viciously bludgeoned the man in the head with a hammer.
Once his victim was dead, he then proceeded to chop up the body and stuffed the parts into a gunny sack.
Hours later, the man, with the aid of his house mate, brought the body to Persiaran Kuala Langat (about one kilometre away) and dumped the remains in a drain.
The murder came to light after the victim’s employer went to the Alam Megah police station today to inform the police and lodge a missing person’s report.
Police immediately arrested the suspect and his house mate, both of whom then led the authorities to the location where they had dumped the body.
Shah Alam district police chief Assistant Commissioner Shafien Mamat, relating the case, said following questioning, the suspect admitted to harbouring resentment over his rival enjoying better sales and wanted revenge. The man also confessed to smashing his victim’s head in with a hammer and chopping up the body.
“We have yet to retrieve the weapons used in the killing. No identification documents were found on the victim,” he said.
The case has been classified as murder.