Alleged killers seek lighter sentences

Alleged killers seek lighter sentences

JAKARTA (JP): The two defendants being tried at the North
Jakarta District Court on charges of killing a business tycoon
asked the judge to reduce the sentences demanded by the
prosecutor.

Agiono Safran and Sudartono, alias Atok, have been accused of
killing businessman Darmansyah Sujadi, alias Nyo Beng Seng, in
Pluit, North Jakarta, on April 15 last year.

Nyo Beng Seng was an owner of the PT Irama Tara recording
company as well as several massage parlors and night clubs in
Jakarta.

In the last trial session state prosecutor James Pardede said
that the defendants had violated article 340 of the Criminal Law.
He urged presiding judge Soemarjono to sentence Agiono to life
imprisonment and Atok to 20 years in prison.

Atok said that the prosecution was being too harsh. "Moreover,
some of the prosecutor's indictments were wrong," he claimed.

The defendants' lawyer, Hormat Torong, stated that the
prosecutor could not prove his accusations in the court sessions.

According to the doctor's autopsy report, the victim's death
was caused by injuries to the chest.

However, Torong said, so far there has been no strong evidence
as to who stabbed the victim. "Not one of the witnesses testified
that the man who stabbed Nyo beng Seng was Agiono or Atok," he
said, adding that it was possible that the killers might actually
still be at large. (29)