Border Posts Alerted To Stop Key Witness
By Rol Izam & Ignatius Stephen

Bandar Seri Begawan - A stop order has been issued against Mr Teo Hoon @ Teo Ah Hoon, 70, a key witness in a triple murder case to prevent him from leaving Brunei.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Haji Yusree Junaidi assisted by DPP Pengiran Nina Jasmine told the Brunei High Court that the government has put out an urgent order through the police to alert all border exit points.

Mr Teo, a retired Customs and Excise Department official, is required to give vital evidence before the Brunei High Court where 53-year-old car salesman Richard Chia Kok Hiong is accused of murdering Seniwati binte Untong, 37, her husband Maul bin Jambu, 44, and their two-year-old adopted daughter Neena Asmira.

In the horrific mid-December murders two years ago which shocked and mystified everyone, Seniwati's body was found half naked and lying on the floor.

She seemed to have been subjected to extensive torture judging from the multiple wounds all over her body before being strangled to death, the court heard.

Her husband was clubbed to death and his bloodsplattered body was found in the garage. Their little girl was smothered with a pillow; her favourate brown toy teddy bear was placed beside her on the pillow apparently after she was killed..

The horrendous killings happened in a government bungalow in Kampong Serusop in the night or early dawn of December 15 in 2004.

Richard, who was arrested two months after the incident and held under police remand ever since, is denying all charges. A neighbour, Richard told the court that he had no reason to kill them. He had after all hoped to sell them a car.

He claimed that he was nowhere near the scene when the murders took place and was with a friend, Teo Ah Hoon, drinking beer at a restaurant in Jalan Muara.

Richard's counsels, Siva Sankaran and Yusof Halim, who aim to produce Teo Ah Hoon before Chief Justice Dato Mohd Saied and Dato Steven Chong as a key defence witness, are having a tough time trying to locate Teo.

All efforts to trace Teo have failed and even an advertisement in the local media and wide publicity of the case have so far produced no result. His family members too have been unable to help.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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