Murder suspect arrested

Murder suspect arrested

SURABAYA: Police have arrested a woman suspected of murdering a woman whose mutilated body was found here recently.

The head of the East Java Police Office, Maj.Gen. Roesmandi, said that police arrested the suspect, whom he identified as Mrs. As, 41, in the south of East Java's capital city, yesterday.

She will be charged with the murder of Pujiastutik, 32, five days ago.

"We have discovered only two pieces of the corpse," said the head of the City Police, Col. S. Bimantara.

He added that police had found enough material evidence to form a credible case. They are a knife, which was used to kill the woman, a saw to cut up her body and some other tools.

The police, he said, have also interrogated the son, husband and a neighbor of the suspect. The son, Bimantara said, had helped his mother throw away the pieces of the body, which were wrapped in a plastic bag, although he was not aware what the contents were.

The neighbor had told the police that she heard the victim screaming.

"The motive of the murder is debt burden," he was quoted by Antara as saying yesterday.

The suspect used to borrow money from her neighbors but when she tried to get some from the victim, the latter mocked her contemptuously, according to neighbors.