KUALA LUMPUR: A 22-year-old woman, believed to be a friend of the husband of a woman found dead in a closet, has surrendered herself to the police.
Ampang Jaya deputy OCPD Supt Amiruddin Jamaluddin said she was detained when she turned up at the police station at about 1am yesterday.
It is learnt that the woman, who works in a catering company, had earlier been seen with the victim’s husband, who has gone missing.
They were spotted together at 9pm, several hours after the body of 39-year-old Fazlina Ahmad was found inside a wardrobe in the master bedroom of her house in Jalan Pinggiran Ukay on Wednesday evening.
Fazlina and her younger daughter, Marian, in an undated photo.
Supt Amiruddin said Fazlina’s husband has been missing since her body was discovered.
Neighbours saw him leaving his double-storey house at around 5pm.
Initial investigations revealed that the woman and Fazlina’s husband had known each other for almost a year through a business meeting.
On Wednesday, police went to the victim’s house following a report lodged by a friend of hers who had been unable to contact her.
Supt Amiruddin also said that police had not ruled out family problems as the motive for the murder.
“But we had never received any report about abuse from the victim,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Fazlina, who was an executive with a private company, was believed to have died due to suffocation hours before the body was found.
The mother of two girls, Nurin, seven, and Marian, five, was found dead with her mouth and nose wrapped with binding tape and covered with a bedsheet.
Police are still waiting for a post-mortem report to ascertain the cause of death.
Supt Amiruddin also said police were looking for the vic-tim’s husband to assist in their investigations.
Fazlina’s elder sister Faezah said she last met the victim last Saturday when she returned to her hometown in Jelutong, Penang, for a holiday.
She said Fazlina had confided in her that she was going through domestic problems and that she wanted to talk about it further when she returned home again on Wednesday.
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