The seven suspects who had been charged in the murder of property agent Datin Renyce Wong have all been acquitted without their defense even being called after the prosecution failed to prove prima facie.
That is, after CCTV footage only showed two helmeted assassins, gunning down Renyce on Old Klang Road while in the car with her five children and maid, without any clear indication as to who they were, nor what the bike plates were, none of the accused could be identified as being involved.
M. Pal Ganapathy, 27, S. Vijendran, 30, K. Sri Kanapathy, 35, Chen Yuen Ming, 42, Chin Kok Leong, 45, K. Sattiyarao, 30, and the lone woman Liew Lai Chen, 48, were acquitted without charge.
The bone-chilling crime occurred on at 2:30pm, in broad daylight on the first day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, July 6 2016.
Renyce’s young eight-year-old daughter was in the passenger seat, as her mother drove the Toyota MPV. She was hit by a bullet that they pierced her intestines in nine places.
Last year, the Straits Times reported that a KL business man was being held suspect in the crime, after borrowing RM13 million (US$3.125 million) from Renyce, and failing to pay it back, he was accused of hiring hitmen to kill her. He had been accused of paying them RM60,000 (US$15,000) for the hit.
At the time, police recovered the gun used in the crime, and had linked it to previous crimes that had been used in Perak, the home-state, of the accused.
It seems these links did not hold up once the case went to trial. There are no known other leads in suspects for the crime.
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