Yogyakarta Regional Police Ensures That Victims Of Mutilation In Sleman Are UMY Students

Two suspects in the UMY student mutilation case, Sleman Yogyakarta/ Photo: IST

SLEMAN - Yogyakarta Special Region Police (DIY) confirmed that the victims of mutilation carried out by two suspects, namely Waliyin (29) and RS (38) were students from the University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), named Redho Tri Agustian.

The Yogyakarta Regional Police Chief, Inspector General Suwondo Nainggolan, said what ensured that his party concluded that the victim was Redho Tri Agustian based on the results of the DNA examination of the victim and her parents.

The perpetrators named Waliyin (29) and RS (38), they were arrested for murder, mutilation of Redho Tri Agustian.

"DNA results, especially those related to blood, have been carried out and there are results that exist, identical to their parents. We have the benchmark, right," said Suwondo Nainggolan to reporters, Monday, July 31.

As previously reported, the Directorate of General Criminal Investigation of the Yogyakarta Special Region Police arrested two perpetrators of student mutilation at a private university.

Dirreskrimum Polda DIY Kombes FX Endriadi said two male perpetrators with the initials W, a resident of Magelang, Central Java and RD, a resident of DKI Jakarta, were arrested in Bogor, West Java, last Saturday.

"Currently, the perpetrators are already at the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Yogyakarta Regional Police and an intensive examination will be carried out regarding the motive and then their actions," said Endriadi during a press conference at the Yogyakarta Regional Police Headquarters, Sleman Regency, Sunday, July 16.

The disclosure of the mutilation case, said Endriadi, stems from a report from the Sleman Police regarding the discovery of several pieces of human bodies suspected of being victims of mutilation in the Bedog River, Kelor Hamlet, Bangunkerto, Turi District, Sleman on July 12, 2023, at 19.30 WIB.

The police then conducted an in-depth investigation of the body's findings at the Bhayangkara Polda DIY Hospital so that the identity of the victim was found to be male, a resident of Pangkalpinang, Bangka Belitung Islands Province.

"The identity of the victim on behalf of the initials R, the person concerned is a student at a private university in Yogyakarta," he said.

The police team then carried out the crime scene (TKP), digital forensics, and collected public information and narrowed the identities of the two suspects W and RD who were known to be in West Java.

Both were successfully secured at RD's residence in Bogor, West Java, then taken to Yogyakarta on Saturday night, July 15.

"From the suspect's trip here (Yogyakarta), we interrogated where they threw away the pieces (of the victim's body)," said Endriadi.

Based on the data obtained, according to him, the victim was executed at the suspect boarding house in Triharjo Village, Sleman District, Sleman Regency, DIY.