Knife attack by royalty: Cops record statements from several witnesses
The police confirmed that they have recorded statements from several witnesses concerning a knife attack allegedly involving a member of the Pahang royalty.
“The witnesses have come forward to assist in the investigation, which is being done under Section 324 of the Penal Code,” Kuantan district police chief Wan Zahari Wan Busu told Malaysiakini today.
However, when asked about...
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Kuantan district police chief Wan Zahari Wan Busu confirms his team has recorded statements from several witnesses concerning a knife attack case involving a member of the Pahang royalty.
Yesterday, the officer confirmed an arrest had been made but declined to elaborate further.
The police confirmed that they have recorded statements from several witnesses concerning a knife attack allegedly involving a member of the Pahang royalty.
“The witnesses have come forward to assist in the investigation, which is being done under Section 324 of the Penal Code,” Kuantan district police chief Wan Zahari Wan Busu told Malaysiakini today.
However, when asked about the number of arrests, he declined to reveal it.
According to a June 5 police report, the incident occurred early on May 8 at a nightclub in the state’s capital.
A 30-year-old complainant claimed that he was urged by his friend to go to the nightclub due to an earlier occurrence at a separate entertainment establishment, where he was said to have bumped into the royalty figure twice.
The complainant said that when he arrived at the second nightclub with two of his relatives, a man believed to be an aide to the royalty had asked him how he would like to resolve the matter.
After his offer to purchase beers for the royalty was rejected, the aide allegedly suggested that the complainant offer an “angpau” to the royalty, after which RM1,200 was handed over.
However, the aide supposedly told the complainant to apologise to the royalty directly, after which the victim, his relatives, and a staffer were brought to a karaoke room on the second floor to face the royalty.
‘Hit on the head’
Besides questioning whether the complainant was drunk, the royalty also allegedly scolded the victim for bumping into him earlier.
The situation took a turn for the worse when the royalty invited the victim to sit on a sofa before purportedly “signalling” to his bodyguard, who then hit the complainant’s head with a glass jug.
The royalty is also said to have brandished a folding knife and ostensibly stabbed the victim in the buttocks before the nightclub staffer managed to restrain the royalty and his bodyguard.
The victim claims he had to be brought to a hospital afterwards as he suffered significant wounds and massive loss of blood due to the stabbing.
Yesterday, Wan Zahari confirmed an arrest had been made but declined to divulge the details.
Last year, a member of the Pahang royal family, Tengku Eddie Akasya Tengku Abd Rahman, and four others were charged in the Kuantan Magistrate’s Court for injuring a road construction worker using a knife.
Tengku Eddie, 21, is the nephew of Pahang ruler Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah.
