A MAN from Kuala Lumpur has been arrested on suspicion of murder, after his wife first lodged a police report alleging he beat their nine-year-old daughter in a sustained and brutal assault, leaving the girl bloody and weak.

According to Dang Wangi police chief Noor Dellhan Yahaya said his team received a report from the suspect’s wife that she found her daughter in a weak state and bleeding from her mouth after she (wife) returned from work last Friday, and she suspected the girl had been abused by her husband.

After the 41-year-old foreign woman lodged the police report, the police together with the woman, who works as a restaurant assistant, went to her house on Jalan Pudu to get her daughter, but neither her husband nor the daughter were not at home.

“An unemployed man, 40, was arrested at about 12.30pm on Sunday on Jalan Pasar Pudu,” Noor Dellhan said in a statement today.

He said after interrogation, the suspect admitted he buried his daughter’s body by the roadside in Taman Dusun Bandar but he would not reveal when he buried the body.

Noor Dellhan said autopsy results found that the cause of death of the girl was due to severe injuries to the abdomen due to blunt force trauma.

He added that the man has been remanded for seven days until December 18 to facilitate investigations under section 31 (1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 and section 302 of the penal code. – Bernama, December 13, 2022.