Asia: He has covered several homicide cases in over two years with the Singapore Police Force, but for Deputy Superintendent Chris Lee, it was a wonder when a 27-year-old target survived her almost-fatal accidents.
” Based on the homicide cases I see, it’s a miracle that she actually pulled through” , , DSP Lee told CNA in an interview on the brutal abuse case. ” It was really poor”.
The girl, who turns 34 this time, had sought shelter with a home she considered her individual. The household turned on her after one of her daughters accused her of having sex with her husband.
Over about one-and-a-half centuries from mid-2016, the Ismail home tortured and enslaved the target. She was bitten by hot oil and hot water, fractured her feet, and had her tooth extracted.
By the time one of the girls called an ambulance in January 2018, the target was dying from rot-stained wounds that had rotted throughout her body.
Due to the smell she emitted and the wounds she sustained from being scalded in the personal parts, she was forced to be chained in the bathroom and dragged from the stomach down.
One of the offenders, Hasniza Ismail, called the police on January 16, 2018, according to DSP Lee, the direct investigating officer in the case.
Hasniza claimed that the victim had a disease and was covered in injuries that resembled misuse and had agreed to it.
” The first account provided by Hasniza did not align with the officer’s primary results”, said DSP Lee.
She claimed that the sufferer had been injured before arriving and had only been with the home for two weeks. She added that the victim was “wanted” by the authorities, so she turned down skilled care.
However, according to police investigations, the victim had many trips to Malaysia with the Ismails between 2015 and 2017.
Health reports that came up on the victim’s accidents even contradicted Hasniza’s story.
Hasniza was the first to be arrested. After that, the officers summoned another four family individuals for interviews.
CHALLENGES OF Analysis
To hold the individual interviews simultaneously, DSP Lee needed to mobilise about 10 soldiers.
” They are extremely experienced soldiers, but they knew what I wanted. The sequence of events that we knew caused some disparities in some claims, the 50-year-old official said,” so we started looking into more” after we interviewed.
” One of the sisters reported hearing Haslinda slapping the sufferer,” the sister added. That led us to later detain Haslinda, and Haslinda later revealed Hasmah’s involvement. And that’s how we arrested five – Hasniza was the first, followed by Haslinda, Hasmah, Iski and Iskandar”.
He was referring to mother Hasmah Sulong, another child Haslinda Ismail, and Hasmah’s children, Muhammad Iskandar Ismail and Muhammad Iski Ismail.
Despite the family’s best efforts to create a regular narrative, the researchers discovered contradictions that identified Haslinda as one of the main criminals.
Haslinda afterwards discovered that she had first abused the victim because she believed she had raped her father.
This incident was not confirmed, DSP Lee said.