Chee Gaik Yap | |
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 Chee Gaik Yap, who went missing for nine hours before her body was discovered | |
| Born | Chee Gaik Yap 31 August 1981 |
| Died | (aged 24) |
| Cause of death | Fatal stab wound to the neck |
| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Education | Universiti Utara Malaysia |
| Occupation | Marketing executive |
| Known for | Victim of a rape-murder case |
| Parent(s) | Chee Ah Sau (father) Lim Kim Nai (mother) |
| Family | Five siblings |
On 14 January 2006, at Sungai Petani in Kedah, Malaysia, 24-year-old Chee Gaik Yap (朱玉叶 Zhū Yùyè), a Chinese Malaysian who was last seen jogging with her sister, went missing and she was found dead nine hours later with multiple stab wounds all over her body. Evidence showed that Chee had been abducted, raped, sodomized and in the end, murdered by her attacker, who was not caught until six years later, when the suspect was arrested at Kuala Lumpur International Airport after arriving from Perth.[1]
The perpetrator, Shahril Jaafar, who was the son of a Datuk businessman, was initially set free in June 2013 after being found not guilty of the crime, but following the prosecution's appeal and a re-trial, Shahril was found guilty of murdering Chee and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty by the Alor Setar High Court in August 2015.[2]
Shahril's appeals to the Court of Appeal and Federal Court were rejected in 2016 and 2018 respectively,[3] and in 2024, after Malaysia's abolition of mandatory death sentences, Shahril filed a re-sentencing motion to commute his death sentence but his appeal ultimately failed, after the Federal Court found it appropriate to sentence Shahril to hang for the rape-murder of Chee, which the prosecution described as the "rarest of rare" case of murder in Malaysia. Shahril is currently on death row as of 2024.[4][5]
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- ^ "Businessman sentenced to death for 2006 murder". The Star. 9 August 2015.
- ^ "朱玉叶遭奸杀案被告难逃一死 ·联邦法院维持高庭原判谋杀罪成死刑". Sin Chew Daily (in Chinese). 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Federal Court upholds ex-businessman's death sentence for 2006 murder of UUM grad". The Star. 29 May 2024.
- ^ "朱玉叶遭奸杀案 - 光天化日被掳奸杀 控方要求维持死刑". China Press (in Chinese). 29 May 2024.
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