Teacher detained for murder

Teacher detained for murder

MEDAN, North Sumatra: The police have detained a lecturer and
three of his students, all of whom are under suspicion for the
brutal killing of his lover.

The lecturer, whom the police identify as MP, is believed to
have masterminded the murder of Heni Silalahi, a student at
Nommensen University.

In preliminary questioning, MP admitted to having killed Heni
because she had threatened to reveal their love affair to his
wife, after he broke his promise to give her a "good mark" in
exchange for sex.

Chief of the Medan city police, Col. Chairuddin Ismail, said
that the three suspects murdered Heni on Nov. 6 in a sugar-cane
plantation near here, Antara reported.

They gang-raped her before strangling her to death he said.
(pan)