Saudi Arabian Citizen Threatened With Life Imprisonment After Killing Sarah, Unregistered Wife From Cianjur With Acid

Cianjur Police Chief, West Java Grand Commissioner Adjutant Doni Hermawan (ANTARA)

CIANJUR - Saudi Arabian citizen Abdul Latief (29) was charged with multiple articles and threatened with life imprisonment after being involved in the murder of his own wife, Sarah (21). The victim is a resident of Munjul Village, Sukamaju Village, Cianjur, West Java.

Abdul Latief was arrested by the police at Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Soetta) when he was about to flee abroad.

Cianjur Police Chief Grand Commissioner Adjutant Doni Hermawan said the perpetrator would be charged with an article on premeditated murder, because he viciously poured acid on his wife.

"The perpetrators will be charged with multiple layers of articles, 340 of the Criminal Code on premeditated murder, Articles 338 and 351 of the Criminal Code regarding persecution that resulted in the victim's death with the threat of life imprisonment," Doni explained in Cianjur as quoted by Antara, Monday, November 22.

The disclosure of the perpetrator's planned actions was discovered after officers received information regarding the acid that Abdul bought a week ago through an online shop. The perpetrator waited for his wife to fall asleep before carrying out his heinous act.

Doni added that during his domestic life, the perpetrators often abused the victim. The climax was when Abdul was blindly jealous and desperate to flush his betel wife with acid. It is known that Sarah is the betel wife of Abdul.

Salman (60), the victim's father, asked the law enforcement officers to impose a death sentence on the perpetrator who had brutally killed her daughter. Even though the victim is his stepdaughter, Salman has been taking care of Sarah like his biological child since she was a toddler.

"Which father can accept that his child is being treated cruelly, to the point of death with burns all over her body. On behalf of Sarah's parents, I ask for the death penalty for the perpetrator who killed our child," he said.

Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Cianjur Police, Commissioner Adjutant Septiawan Adi, said that his party immediately sent members to Soeta Airport, after receiving information about the whereabouts of the perpetrator who fled immediately after dousing his wife with acid.