Neighbour’s account: Rashidah (left) listening to a question about Nazrin while her mother Hasina Nur Islam looks on yesterday.
The Myanmar couple, who found five-year-old Muhammad Nazrin Shamsul Ghazali and kept him for two weeks, have been remanded for four days.
Magistrate Fatimah Rubiah Ali ordered the couple to be remanded until Thursday.
Police are investigating if the 31-year-old man and 27-year-old woman had abducted the boy, popularly known as Yin, and wrongfully confined him.
Speaking to newsmen later, lawyer Pritam Singh Doal said the police had placed the couple’s five children, aged between three and 10, with the Welfare Department pending investigations.
Nazrin went missing on March 31 while his father Shamsul Ghazali Shamsuddin was trying on some clothes at the Sogo shopping mall in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here.
He was finally reunited with his father on Saturday evening.
Magistrate Fatimah Rubiah Ali ordered the couple to be remanded until Thursday.
Police are investigating if the 31-year-old man and 27-year-old woman had abducted the boy, popularly known as Yin, and wrongfully confined him.
Speaking to newsmen later, lawyer Pritam Singh Doal said the police had placed the couple’s five children, aged between three and 10, with the Welfare Department pending investigations.
Nazrin went missing on March 31 while his father Shamsul Ghazali Shamsuddin was trying on some clothes at the Sogo shopping mall in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here.
He was finally reunited with his father on Saturday evening.
City acting CPO Senior Asst Comm (I) Mohd Zulhasnan Najib Baharuddin confirmed that the five children were with the Welfare Department but declined to say if DNA tests would be done to verify if the children were the couple’s.
Meanwhile, a young neighbour of the Myanmar couple said that for the two weeks that Nazrin was there, he had called them “mak” (mother) and “ayah” (father), and was renamed Yusoff.
Nazrin was a a happy-go-lucky boy who was well loved by the couple, said Rashidah Begum, nine, who lives next to the couple in a squatter area behind the Sentul market.
When Nazrin appeared in the couple’s house two weeks ago, the Myanmar woman claimed he was her brother-in-law’s son, the girl said.
“When I asked Yusoff where his mother was, he would just smile, but he never gave coherent answers because he could not speak well yet,” said Rashidah, who is also from Myanmar and has been staying in the area for the past four years.
Rashidah said she saw red spots all over the boy’s body and that was probably why his head was shaved.
The detained woman’s brother, who happened to be next door, said his sister and her husband had been treated unfairly for their kindness.
“She and her husband are illiterate, do not understand the law and do not watch the television. They did not know there was a search going on for the boy,” said the ice-cream seller who declined to be named.
As for allegation that the Myanmar couple planned to use Nazrin for begging, the brother retorted: “If that is true, she has five beautiful children who can do a better job. Moreover, they can speak better.”
Nazrin was a a happy-go-lucky boy who was well loved by the couple, said Rashidah Begum, nine, who lives next to the couple in a squatter area behind the Sentul market.
When Nazrin appeared in the couple’s house two weeks ago, the Myanmar woman claimed he was her brother-in-law’s son, the girl said.
“When I asked Yusoff where his mother was, he would just smile, but he never gave coherent answers because he could not speak well yet,” said Rashidah, who is also from Myanmar and has been staying in the area for the past four years.
Rashidah said she saw red spots all over the boy’s body and that was probably why his head was shaved.
The detained woman’s brother, who happened to be next door, said his sister and her husband had been treated unfairly for their kindness.
“She and her husband are illiterate, do not understand the law and do not watch the television. They did not know there was a search going on for the boy,” said the ice-cream seller who declined to be named.
As for allegation that the Myanmar couple planned to use Nazrin for begging, the brother retorted: “If that is true, she has five beautiful children who can do a better job. Moreover, they can speak better.”
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