This is easily one of the saddest stories we’ve ever heard.
Just because of a case of mistaken identity, 33-year-old ojek driver Dedi bin Mugeni was wrongly accused of murder. He was held in police custody for 10 month until he was released this week after he was cleared of the crime he was accused of.
Sadly, since he was jailed, he rarely got the chance to see his 3-year-old son. And now that he’s out, he’ll never be able to.
“My son Ibrahim died at 3 years old while I was in prison,” Dedi said, as quoted by Vivanews today.
Dedi said he wasn’t even allowed to attend his son’s funeral, and was only allowed to see his son briefly when he was sick.
“I appealed to the judges to visit [my son], but I only got an hour. I saw my son when he was already buried,” he said.
Dedi believes that his being in prison contributed to his only son’s deteriorating health and mental state (though it wasn’t revealed what illness his son actually suffered from).
On September 18, 2014, a fight broke out between two angkot minivan drivers over a passenger near Pusat Grosir Cililitan (PGC). Ojek drivers in the area broke up the fight. One angkot driver was upset, went home, and came back with a sharp weapon. Seeing this, ojek drivers and angkot drivers ganged up on him, eventually killing him.
Seven days later, officers from East Jakarta Police were looking for a suspect in the murder named Dodi, who is an angkot driver. Instead, they arrested Dedi the ojek driver, who was actually at his house in Tebet, South Jakarta, at the time of the crime.
Dedi was convicted of murder by the East Jakarta District Court and was sent to the Cipinang Prison. He appealed his case to the Jakarta High Court, and eventually won his freedom after spending 10 months in prison.
Only his home will never be the same again ever since his only son is gone.
