A Singaporean man was charged inside a Malaysian courtroom yesterday with the gruesome murder of his wife and stepson, who he allegedly stabbed, dismembered, then discarded pieces of in separate locations.
Shahrul Nizam Zuraimy, 31, was charged with the murder of Norfazera Bidin, 27, believed to be a Malaysian, and her son, 11-year-old Muhammad Iman Ashraf Abdullah, at their two-story house in Melaka, Malaysia’s The Star reported.
Shahrul Nizam was arrested in Singapore on Oct. 11, a day after body parts were found by a man cutting grass near an industrial area about 10km from the house. He found them strewn on the ground at about 4pm and reported it to the police.
The mother and child’s decapitated heads, however, were reportedly found in the attic.
The current working theory is that the murders took place sometime between the evening of Oct. 6 and the wee hours of the 7th.
Shahrul Nizam, who had also been working in Malaysia as a grass cutter, was not represented by a lawyer when he appeared in court yesterday. His case will be heard again on Dec. 16.
The Singaporean national is accused of stabbing his wife with a kitchen knife following a heated argument. He then allegedly killed his stepson, who had witnessed his mother’s murder, TODAY reported. Muhammad Iman was the eldest of four children from a previous marriage.
The couple was married a year ago, according to details on their respective Facebook accounts.
On the morning of Oct. 6, Shahrul Nizam posted to Facebook a birthday message to his wife that included a shot of the couple together.
“May you be blessed with good health … strength and success in your endeavors,” he wrote in Malay. “Continue to be the super mom for our children and continue to be my wife… Happy birthday, my dear wife.”
Only hours later, she would be dead.
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