Gruesome murders are tragic episodes and cruelty that go beyond normal rational thinking.
The following is a list of the horrific crime that heavily underlined by news reports this year.
SOSILAWATI LAWIYA MURDER
Aug 30: Cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, was killed along with her driver, Kamaruddin Shamsudin, 44, CIMB Kampung Baru branch bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, when they made a trip to Banting to negotiate a land deal.
Sept 9 and 10: The police arrested eight suspects aged between 19 and 41, including two lawyer brothers and workers of Ladang Gadong, Jalan Tanjung Sepat, Morib.
Sept 12: The police confirmed that Sosilawati and three others were killed and then set on fire. Their ashes were scattered over a river near Ladang Gadong.
Oct 15: Two of the suspects were sentenced to seven years jail each for burning the bodies of Sosilawati and her three associates and for disposing of their ashes by the Teluk Datok Magistrate's Court.
GEMENCHEH MURDER
Jan 5: Rasidi Ismail, 34, is alleged to have murdered his grandparents Atan Daud, 86, and Sufian Keatas, 80; his father Ismail Awang, 76, and sister Siti Khadijah, 22, at his house and an adjacent house in Gemencheh, Negeri Sembilan.
Rasidi was picked up 48 hours after the murder near an overhead bridge at the Masjid Jamek LRT station in Kuala Lumpur.
He then took the police to a Muslim cemetery in Section 21, Shah Alam, where they recovered a severed head in a plastic bag buried 60cm in the ground.
Ismail's headless body was found in Atan's and Sufiah's house, while Siti Khadijah's was found at her family home 20 metres away.
Sept 7: The Seremban High Court acquitted and discharged Rasidi from all charges on the grounds of insanity and ordered him to be detained at the Kajang Prison at the pleasure of the Yang di-Pertuan Negeri Sembilan.
CHILD ABUSE MURDERS
Feb 25: Syafiah Humaira Sahari, 3, died of serious wounds in the abdomen believed to have been caused by being stomped on by taxi driver Mohd Fazli Azri Jamil, 38, a male friend of her mother.
Her internal injuries included bleeding in the head, abdomen and kidney, and bruises and scratches on her cheek, neck and back.
Sept 22: Mohd Fazli Azri Jamil was sentenced to death for murdering Syafiah Humaira Sahari, 3, at a football field in Jalan Utama, Kawasan Perumahan Murah Rumah, Batu 30 Ulu Yam Lama in Batang Kali.
March 4: K. Haresvarran, 18 months, was believed to have died following abuse which left him with broken ribs, a ruptured liver and bruises all over the body at a children's playground at the Vista Damansara Apartments, Jalan Kenanga, Kampung Sungai Ara, Petaling Jaya.
March 15 - Lorry attendant M. Rajamorgan, 33, was charged at the Petaling Jaya Magistrate’s court with murdering Harresvaran
SITI MAZNI ABDUL RAHMAN MURDER
Dec 17: Fourteen-year old Siti Mazni Abdul Rahman was found stabbed to death at an oil palm estate, about 150m from her house in Tongkang Pechah, Batu Pahat, Johor.
The victim, a form two student of SMK Tengku Putra in Batu Pahat, was found with her track bottom at her knees, hidden under a pile of cut oil palm fronds at a plantation in Parit Ju Darat in Tongkang Pechah.
Dec 19: Five suspects, including four students, were arrested in connection with the brutal murder.
