Relatives identify murdered transsexual

Relatives identify murdered transsexual

JAKARTA (JP): The mutilated body of a man found near Tanjung
Barat Railway Station in Lenteng Agung, Jagakarsa, on Monday
morning has been identified as Hugo Yonathan, alias Ihok, 35.

South Jakarta Police chief of detectives Maj. Rycko Amelza
Daniel said on Tuesday that Yuli, alias Etty, who heads the South
Jakarta Communication Forum for Transsexuals (FKW), helped by
alerting several FKW members to look for a missing forum member.

"They also alerted Hugo's family, who went over to the
Jagakarsa Police substation and then to Cipto Mangunkusumo
General Hospital, where they identified the body. Hugo lived in
Depok, south of here," Rycko told reporters.

"Hugo was both a singing beggar and a prostitute, who usually
worked around Depok and Tanjung Barat."

"He was probably killed by his Sunday night date. Sperm was
found on his buttocks ... he was sodomized before the murder."

South Jakarta Police detectives are questioning four people in
relation to the murder. Rycko said his men were still
investigating the murder of Hugo, whose hands had been cut off.

The hands of the victim have not been found.

The four witnesses are Sachrul, 20, an employee of Pasar
Minggu Railway Station; Aji Sumantri, a teenage street singer;
Usin, a man who found a plastic packet containing the victim's
blood some 50 meters from the crime scene; and Yuli, alias Etty.

Dony, Hugo's stepbrother, told reporters at Cipto Mangunkusumo
General Hospital's morgue that the victim was working at a beauty
salon in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta.

Hugo, who was adopted by Dony's parents reportedly because his
biological parents were embarrassed by his feminine behavior, was
the second child in the family.

"His true family left him here and they went to the
Netherlands when he was just a little boy," Dony said.

He believes the victim had no enemies as Hugo was calm in
nature and never had any problems with his friends.

A security guard in Kampung Lio, Samin, said Hugo was on his
way to the vicinity of Tanjung Barat Railway Station on the night
he was murdered.

"Hugo was approached by three men and after a brief discussion
one of the men stopped a taxi and they all left the area.

"That's the last time I saw him alive," Samin said.

Hugo's body was found on Monday morning by residents living
near the busy railway station. The body was wearing black
trousers, while a cream sweater covered the upper part of the
body. A wig of very coarse hair lay beside the head.

Found near the body was a handbag filled with, among other
things, a hairbrush, two lipsticks and a packet of peanuts.

There were eight stab wounds in the back, four in the abdomen
and two in the neck. (ylt/06)