Klang woman fakes her own kidnapping to leave husband for lover, also asks for ransom

Photo: Stock photo from media library
Photo: Stock photo from media library

William of Ockham, the English Franciscan friar SLASH theologian is often attributed with devising the principle that when presented with multiple hypotheses, the one that has the fewest assumptions is the one to go with. The cool kids call this Occam’s razor.

The idea that the path of least resistance is the road that should be taken could have benefited a Klang woman, who instead of simply leaving her husband of 20 years for her lover, decided that faking her own kidnapping, and subsequently sending a ransom to said husband, was the best means to her end.

The 40-year-old woman had her 55-year-old husband drop her off at work Friday; however, when the end of the day had come and he returned to fetch her, she was nowhere to be seen.

The following day, the husband received a phone call, demanding RM5,000 (US$1,200) for the wife’s return. He subsequently lodged a police report.

Hot on the case, the police managed to track down a middle-aged woman involved in the fiasco on Monday, and her arrest led police to the man’s wife. Turns out she wasn’t kidnapped at all, she was just at a restaurant on Jalan Meru, presumably waiting for some tea that never came.

She then led police to her other accomplice, her 37-year-old lover, later that day.

Both claim that they have been in an illicit relationship for the last nine years; however, the woman claimed that her husband was abusive and that was the actual reason she left.

OK, lady. We feel for you. Either way, you just didn’t want to be there, and that’s totally fine. However, faking your own kidnapping is some next-level problem solving that actually leaves you with an even bigger problem, one that involves the police.

Occam’s razor y’all: not just something on your GCSE biology exam, actually real-life relevant.



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