The last two suspects who remain in police custody for investigations into the murder of Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three of her associates are expected to be charged for murder tomorrow.
Although police top brass were not available to confirm this, theSun learned that the suspects whose remand order expires tomorrow will face murder charges for killing Sosilawati and the other three victims at the Teluk Datuk Magistrate's Court in the morning.
The suspects were employed as workers at a Banting farm owned by main suspect, lawyer N. Pathmanabhan, 41 who was charged in court for murder along with three other youths on Wednesday.
The two suspects were arrested in a three-day police swoop on Sept 10 along with Pathmanabhan, his younger brother who is also a lawyer and four other men after police investigations into the disappearance of Sosilawati, 47, CIMB bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abd Karim, 32, and driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44 led to the men.
Datuk K. Patmanaban (centre), being escorted by police at the Bukit Jalil remand centre on Sunday
The four were murdered at the farm at Ladang Gadong before their bodies were burned and their ashes thrown into a nearby river.
All the suspects were held for month under remand for the murders and the disappearance of two Indian businessmen and a Malaysian contractor.
Pathmanabhan's younger brother, another man in his 50s and a 28-year-old woman who was recently held to assist in the probe were released by police when their remand order expired on Wednesday.