Chee Gaik Yap rape and murder

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On 14 January 2006, at Sungai Petani in Kedah, Malaysia, 24-year-old Chee Gaik Yap (Chinese: 朱玉叶; pinyin: Zhū Yùyè), a Chinese Malaysian who was last seen jogging with her sister, went missing, and was found dead nine hours later with multiple stab wounds all over her body. Evidence showed that Chee had been abducted, raped, sodomized and in the end, murdered by her attacker, who was not caught until six years later, when the suspect was arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after arriving from Perth. The perpetrator, Shahril Jaafar, who was the son of a Datuk businessman, was initially set free in June 2013 after being found not guilty of the crime, but following the prosecution's appeal and a re-trial, Shahril was found guilty of murdering Chee and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty by the Alor Setar High Court in August 2015. Shahril's appeals to the Court of Appeal and Federal Court were rejected in 2016 and 2018 respectively, and in 2024, after Malaysia's abolition of...

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