Teen trouble

Two sixteen year-olds are the main culprit behind the robbery of a foreigner who was seeking a place to sleep in a mosque at Gambier Street. The two even impersonated as police officers when they appoached their victim, a 30 year-old Indonesian traveller before committing the crime at 7.30pm on Tuesday.


Police had identified the first suspect and conduct a search after they fail to find his hideout. However the police manage to make an arrest after they found him hiding at Lorong Cathay in the old section of Kuching city.

A body search uncovered a handset in the suspect's jeans pocket, believed to belong to the victim. After further interrogation the police was led to the other suspect at Jalan Ajibah Abol.

The two suspects brought police to the location at Kuching Waterfront where they disposed off their weapon, a meat cleaver used in the robbery. It was found hidden near a flowerbed.

The teen suspects also led police to the back alley ner Gambier Street where they found various documents, including an Indonesian passport with the victim's particulars on it. Police are believed to be looking for the suspects' two other accomplices.

In the incident which was reported in the local press today, the victim was spending a night at the small mosque located at Gambier Street when the two suspects approached the victim pretending to be policemen. Suddenly one of the teen robbers whipped out his weapon and slashed the victim across the right side of his face while the other grabbed the belonging including cash, handset and personal documents.

The victim was later rushed by members of the public in seeking treatment at the hospital in the city.