High school dropout arrested for murder
High school dropout arrested for murder
JAKARTA (JP): Police have arrested one of the two people suspected of killing and robbing an official of the attorney general's office.
Ferry Aryanto, alias Ari, 19, a senior high school drop-out, was arrested by elite mobile regiment officers at the Moonlite discotheque at the Glodok shopping center on Jl. Gadjah Mada in West Jakarta at 1 a.m. yesterday.
The other suspect, identified as Machfudin, alias Ferry, is still at large, City Police spokesman Lt. Col. Iman Haryatna said yesterday.
Based on preliminary investigations, Ari admitted that he and his friend, Ferry, went to the house of Asnawi Naim, 50, a former prosecutor, in the small alley Gang Idris in the West Jakarta district of Sukabumi Utara on Jan. 12.
He also confessed that while the three men performed homosexual acts on a bed, one of the suspects produced a knife, put it under the blanket and then stabbed the victim twice in the neck, the spokesman said.
Ari said that the other suspect then smashed the head of the old man with a stone-made pestle, tied his legs together and covered the victim's head with a blanket, according to Iman.
The corpse was found only three days later after neighbors noticed an offensive smell coming from the house.
A son of the house's owner, who rented the place to the victim about a year ago, opened the house and found Asnawi lying on his bed wearing pajamas with his legs tied and head covered.
Police sources said that the real residence of Asnawi is in Bogor where he lived with his wife and children.
Asnawi's neighbors in Gang Idris told The Jakarta Post recently that the victim had lived there with his nephew named Heri.
The last time Heri was seen at the scene was a day before the body was found.
He told the neighbors that he was forced to sleep on the veranda of the house after he found that the house was locked, the neighbors said.
According to Iman, the full story of the killing and robbery will only emerge after the other suspect is apprehended.
"The main thing which is already clear for the police is that the suspects wanted to rob the victim," Iman said.
After committing the crime, the two suspects left the scene hastily after taking a sum of money and other valuables belonging to the victim, Iman said.
"The loot, including gold rings and a wristwatch, are worth around Rp 700,000," the officer said.(bsr)