Briton and Filipino face murder charge

Briton and Filipino face murder charge

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A Briton and a Filipino have been jointly charged in a court in Labuan island, off Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, with the murder of a man and a woman, the British High Commission confirmed yesterday.

A British High Commission official said he could only confirm that the 48-year old Briton, Ian Daniel Miller, had been charged. The official said the British consul in Kota Kinabalu would assist Miller.

Miller and Rikason Alip Piblani, 34, were charged in Labuan on Saturday with the killing of Filipino Erwin Harina, 26, and a woman of unknown nationality, Jocelyn Dumpor, at a house in Labuan between May 19 and June 14.

Piblani was arrested on July 21 while Miller was caught on September 18. No plea was recorded and magistrate Caroline Bee Majanil ordered Miller and Piblani to be further remanded. They face the death sentence if convicted for murder.