Cop killer dies of cancer

Cop killer dies of cancer

JAKARTA (JP): Teacher-turned murderer, Baskoni Wahab, 50,
who just began his four-year jail term for killing a police
officer, died in the Persahabatan Hospital in East Jakarta of
lung cancer yesterday.

City Police Spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna told The Jakarta
Post last night that Baskoni, a senior high school teacher, died
at 3:00 p.m. yesterday.

"He apparently had been suffering from the disease for quite a
long time," Iman said.

Baskoni collapsed after the judge completed reading the guilty
verdict at his sentencing in December.

Baskoni was found guilty of killing Maj. Noenang Kohar, a
senior narcotics division officer of the city police. The murder
took place on Jl. Wismajaya in East Jakarta on Oct. 14, last
year. (bsr)