Ah Kwong & Friends

17 Jun 2006

PETALING JAYA: The rapist who abducted a stewardess from a shopping centre’s basement car park in Damansara on Tuesday was captured on close-circuit television camera stalking the victim before pouncing on her. He was seen hiding behind a pillar where the stewardess parked hercar and waited for five minutes until the 24-year-old victim returned. Footages then showed the suspect pushing the woman into the car and takingover the wheel. They were in the car for about 10 minutes before they left the car park, with the rapist driving.

The rapist drove around the car park for several minutes searching for an un-manned exit. Finding one, hedrove through, shielding his face with a baseball cap from a CCTV at theexit. The stewardess was spotted seated at the front passenger seat andher face was turned away from the rapist. Her hands were behind her backbut it is not known if they were bound.

Sources told the New Straits Times that the suspect, described as fair-skinned and stocky, was wearing beige pants, blue shirt and a whitebaseball cap. He was first seen walking down the staircase from the groundfloor of the shopping complex to the basement car park. For several minutes he loitered in the car park, shielding his face from the CCTVs.Footages then showed the stewardess driving into the car park. She parked next to a pillar.

After she left her car, the rapist was seen walking towards the car. Hethen hid behind the pillar and waited for her. The 30-minute recording from at least four CCTVs placed at various locations in the car park, was seized by police to facilitate investigations.

Police are tight-lipped over the matter but it is learnt they have severalleads on the suspect. The rapist had allegedly demanded money from the stewardess, who only had RM50 on her. He then demanded the PIN number of her ATM card but she could not remember it as she was overcome by fear.Frustrated and not satisfied with his loot, the man drove the stewardessto a park near the shopping centre and ripped off her clothes and raped her in the back seat. He then drove to a secluded area and raped her again despite her pleas to be released. The man left the stewardess in her carwhere she stayed for an hour before she drove home and related her or deal to her husband. It is learnt that the stewardess had given birth six months ago and was at the shopping centre to buy milk for the baby.

Her husband is also said to be a steward andboth are in the same local airline.

Checks by New Straits Times at the basement car park showed the spot, where the stewardess parked her car, was not far from a security booth,where one guard was stationed. However, the view from the security boothwas obstructed by several pillars. It is learnt there were six guards on duty at the centre on the night of the incident. But they were patrolling other levels of the four-storey shopping complex. None were at the basement car park at the time of the incident.

A manhunt has been mounted and witnesses are urged to contact the PetalingJaya district police headquarters at 03-7956-2222.