Lai Ying Xin

This bit of news really broke my heart.

Ying Xin strangled within 24 hours of her abduction

KULAI: Lai Ying Xin was strangled within 24 hours of her abduction, the post-mortem revealed. The killer had used his bare hands to strangle the 16-year-old.

And after she was dead, the kidnappers contacted her family to demand a ransom "for her release".

State police chief Datuk Mokhtar Shariff said the cause of death was manual strangulation.

He, however, did not reveal whether police had identified the killer among the four suspects currently in custody.
The four, aged between 16 and 22, were nabbed in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Ying Xin.

Exactly what is happening to our society? Canny Ong, Nurin, Ying Xin and many more have lost their lives to the scum of the earth. What is the police doing? The saddest and maddening thing is that justice might not be adequately served to the culprits. As noted in the snippet above, the suspects are aged between 16-22 years old. What if all of them point their fingers at the youngest one, knowing he cannot be handed the death penalty? Most the sixteen year old will face is being detained under His Majesty's pleasure.

Where is the justice in that? To the family of Ying Xin, our prayers are with you.