Prosecutor calls for Robot's trial

Prosecutor calls for Robot's trial

JAKARTA (JP): A state prosecutor urged the Central Jakarta
District Court yesterday to continue to try Robot, the man
accused of sexually assaulting and murdering 6 young boys.

Suriansyah urged Judge Sartono to ignore defense lawyers'
demands to dismiss the case because of a lack of evidence and a
weak dossier.

The defendant, 33-year old SW, alias Robot Gedek, from
Pekalongan, Central Java, is accused of killing six boys aged
between 11 and 15 years. He is also under investigation over the
murder of four other boys in East Jakarta.

Police said Robot had confessed to killing 12 boys. But
Robot's lawyers have argued a confession without material
evidence or witnesses was not enough to convict Robot.

The lawyers -- Febry Irmansyah and Nadjab Khan -- have argued
that the results of investigations into the other alleged murders
should be available before Robot was tried.

Prosecutor Suriansyah said he had enough evidence to convict
the suspect without evidence from the other investigations.

The defense lawyers had also questioned the accuracy of the
dossier which did not give the dates of the alleged murders but
only the dates of when the victims' bodies were found. The bodies
were found between September 1995 and August 1996.

The defendant, who was a scavenger in Central and East
Jakarta, was arrested in Tegal, Central Java, on Aug. 5 last year
after a massive police manhunt. (13)