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14 April 2017
Surgery to save butcher’s popped-out eye
His son J. Samy Kumar, a 31-year-old engineer said that his father’s condition is currently stable but doctors have informed the family that he will have to go into surgery to correct the eyeball that had popped out of its socket due to the savage beating he received.
“Doctors have informed us about the surgery but we are not sure what surgery it is, we are awaiting a briefing from the doctor,” he told theSun.
Samy said his father, S. Jayakumaran, 67, is currently in stable condition and is feeling much better compared to the last few days.
“He is much better, he is happy that his family are around him and we are glad that he is safe now, but we are still waiting for him to go into surgery,” said Samy.
Brickfields police chief ACP Sharul Othman Mansor said police arrested two suspects aged 25 and 26 on Tuesday and Thursday for further investigations into the incident that happened on April 9.
Samy told theSun that police had been in touch with him and told him that they had sought a remand extension for the two suspects to further investigations.
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13 April 2017
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Police refute viral Facebook post about Bangsar assault
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have refuted a viral Facebook post alleging that a butcher was assaulted by a group of suspects in Bangsar.
Brickfields OCPD Asst Comm Sharul Othman Mansor said the elderly man was in fact assaulted by a single man.
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ACP Sharul Othman said that based on investigations, the suspect claimed that his cousin was the one who assaulted the victim.
“The suspect claimed he confronted the elderly man with his wife and brother-in-law and mother-in-law for using foul language and pointing a meat cleaver at the two women,” said ACP Sharul Othman.
He added that the suspect also claimed that the elderly man wanted to lodge a police report and said that the victim, the suspect and his family members were walking toward the police beat base at Bangsar when the suspect’s cousin came on a motorcycle and immediately started assaulting the victim.
ACP Sharul Othman also said the suspect also claimed that he and his family members attempted to stop the assault.
“Based on our current investigations we refute a viral post on Facebook claiming that the victim was assaulted by a group of thugs. We have also arrested a second 25-year-old suspect to help in investigations,” he said, urging the public not to speculate further and allow police to continue their investigations.
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Bangsar butcher savagely assaulted until eye pops out
Posted on 13 April 2017 – 08:34pm
KUALA LUMPUR: A 67-year-old butcher lost his sight in an eye after he was savagely beaten up allegedly by a group of men for refusing to entertain their demands to sell meat and poultry to a restaurant at below-market prices at Lucky Garden, Bangsar on Sunday.
S. Jayakumaran, a meat trader of 31 years at the Bangsar wet market and a butcher familiar to residents of the township, also suffered multiple injuries as a result of the attack on Sunday morning.
According to his son J. Samy Kumar, a 31-year-old engineer, the beating was so severe that his father’s right eyeball popped out of its socket.
“He was holding the eyeball in his hands before pushing it back into the socket. Doctors say he needs to undergo surgery but he fully lost his sight in his right eye due to the damage.” he told theSun.
According to Samy, his father was approached days earlier by a woman who had opened an Indian banana leaf restaurant in Lucky Garden recently.
He said the woman had asked her father to supply poultry at below-market prices which he refused.
The woman apparently left and returned with her daughter who also made similar demands.
When Jayakumaran stood his ground, the woman’s daughter allegedly picked up several meat pieces, a meat hook, a weighing scale and all within her reach and hurled it at him.
The woman’s daughter had allegedly also thrown punches and then snatched his handphone before throwing it to the ground when the man sought help.
Samy said his father did not retaliate but told them that he would lodge a police report.
As he walked towards the Jalan Telawi police beat base, four men showed up at a bus stop near the Bangsar Village shopping center and started assaulting him.
“My father said they removed his shirt and held his hands while three of them started assaulting him, landing heavy blows on his face. The assault only stopped when a group of five passing policemen arrived at the scene.” he said.
Brickfields police chief ACP Sharul Othman Mansor said police arrested two suspects aged 25 and 26 on Tuesday and today.
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