Triple murderess gets death

Triple murderess gets death

SURABAYA: An East Java woman who murdered three women and cut
them into pieces was sentenced to death yesterday, Antara
reported.

The news agency said the Surabaya District Court found 41-year
Astini guilty of premeditated murder of her neighbors.

In his verdict, Judge Maskin said he could not find anything
that could mitigate the heinous crimes she had committed.

The three victims were Sri Astutik, Sri Rahayu, and Puji
Astutik. They were murdered separately between August 1993 and
September 1995. The court said Astini murdered them because she
could not repay the loans she had borrowed from them.

Each time after she committed the murder, she dumped their
bodies, and moved to a new address to escape detection.

Arrested early this year for the murder of Puji Astutik, she
subsequently admitted to have killed two other women.

When the verdict was read, relatives of the victims who were
following the trials shouted "Allah is Great" and "You're Dead"
as Astini was being whisked out of the court by dozens of
security guards. (emb)