Criminal Investigation
| Date | 01 December 1967 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X6704001211 |
| Published date | 01 December 1967 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Crilllinal
Investigation
ASSISTANT
SUPT.
E.
A.
FERNANDEZ
Royal Malaysian Police
THE
DEATH
OF
A fJALL
GIRL
It
was the Coronation Year of 1953.
Far
away in England,
Queen Elizabeth
II
was waiting for June 2 to arrive for the
rich and traditional crowning ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
Here in Malaya preparations were being made for the event to
be celebrated.
I
had
earlier been to a jungle training school deep in the
wilds of the Northern State of Kedah. Malaya was at that time
facing the perils of Communist insurgency. Terrorism was at
its height and the country was reeling under murderous blows.
Hurriedly the Government had set up para-military units known
as jungle companies and members of the police force were enlisted
to fill the ranks. I became platoon commander with 33 fighting
policemen under my charge.
After two long years of hunting the communists in the tangled,
steaming jungle vegetation I was posted back to general duties.
I was happy to be in the city again and happy to join the
thousands of loyal citizens for the ceremonies that were to mark
the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
Iremember that day in June; the time was 5 p.m. in the late
afternoon of the 3rd. I had just returned to the police mess
on the heights of Temiang Hills, on the outskirts of Seremban
town.
It
had
been a very busy day for me, after the hectic
celebrations of the previous night. The town
had
been lighted
up like a fairyland and at the lakes in the centre of Seremban
town were thousands of Malayans, gladly drowning themselves
in the pleasures provided by a benevolent Government. Unknown
to the teeming thousands of citizenry, this lake garden was to be
the first scene in the exit of a beautiful call-girl named Wai
Chui (the name means " Pearl of the Seven Seas ").
Missing Person
The telephone in the mess rang, and I picked up the receiver.
"Tuan ", said the sergeant at the other end,
"there
has just
been a report of a missing person, a young Chinese
girl".
There
was nothing unusual about the report, but I nevertheless in-
structed the sergeant to request the complainant to await my
arrival.
The complainant was an elderly Chinese woman named Madam
Seng. She produced aphotograph of a glamorous Chinese girl
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