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Friday, October 25, 2013

GOOD BYE MY LOVE....

KUALA LUMPUR: IF the husband of AmBank officer Norazita Abu Talib has one regret it was not being able to entertain his wife’s call before she was shot dead at her workplace.

It did not help that the last words he heard from Norazita were those asking for reassurance of her husband’s love.
Irwan Kamarudin, 37, who was married to Norazita for 13 years, could not stem tears when met at the Serdang Hospital mortuary to claim his wife’s body.
He said Norazita had called him at just before her death but he was forced to end the call as he was driving.
“She called me at 5.15pm asking whether I still loved her. I told her that I could not talk at that point and hung up. I should have told her that I loved her then, but now it's too late ... she's gone," he said choking back tears.
Norazita, 37, who was the bank branch's operations officer, died after she was shot in the face by a 37-year-old guard just as she opened the strong room with four colleagues at 6.18pm on Wednesday.
After shooting her, the guard made the others fill a bag with cash from the safe.
The security guard then fled on a motorcycle with an undisclosed amount of cash. It is learnt that he is a 37-year-old Sabahan with a fake IC.
Irwan, who is a driver, said he tried calling his wife at 6.30pm to continue where they left off and remind her to drive safe as it was raining heavily.
"I called her several times until one of her colleagues answered her phone and told me to come straight to the office," he said.
Irwan said in between the unanswered calls, a friend had told him to log on to Facebook which by then was abuzz with news of the robbery-cum-murder at his wife's workplace.
"I had this strange uneasy feeling as I drove to her office (in Subang USJ1 Central). My worst fears came true when her colleagues told me what had happened,"
Irwan described Norazita as a good wife and loving mother.
They have a 12-year-old daughter, Nurnisa Nabilah, and son Mohd Hazimi, 8.
Nurnisa said she last saw her mother before she left their house in Pangsapuri Subang Suria, Seksyen U5 in Shah Alam for school at 7.15am.
"She would usually send me to school, but that day, as she was running late, my dad dropped me off instead," she said in between sobs.
Meanwhile, the bank's branch manager, Lyonel Tan, said he was not at the bank at the time.
"I don't know the guard as he was a replacement who was working at the bank next to our's.
"She was a good and hardworking employee. Her loss will be felt by her colleagues," he said of Norazita, who had been with the bank for 16 years.
Subang Jaya district police deputy chief Superintendent Tan Ah Chua said the killer was still at large and considered dangerous as he was believed to be armed with the shotgun used in Norazita's murder.
"A task force has been formed to investigate the case and capture the suspect," he said adding that police were looking for Ardi Hamza, whose last known address was 70, Jalan Apas, Batu 2, Tawau, Sabah, to facilitate investigations.
Meanwhile, a 33-second closed-circuit-television camera recording showing Norazita's last moments, right up to the point when she fell to the ground after being shot has been circulating on YouTube.
It showed Norazita, who was in a red baju kurung, and one of her colleagues at the vault they just opened. She was then shot but the suspect was not seen in the footage.
The video also showed a man running towards the safe and herding Norazita's frantic colleague out of the room. The shotgun-wielding man then stashed some cash into a bag and escaped.
Irwan appealed to the public to stop circulating videos and pictures related his wife's murder on social media.
The Home Ministry has revoked the licence of the company that provided security at the bank.
The ministry found that the company had only submitted the suspect's security clearance application to the ministry yesterday, after their employee allegedly murdered Norazita.
The security firm had also allegedly failed to conduct proper screenings on its guards or obtain firearms licences for their employees.
The ministry's deputy secretary-general (Security), Datuk Alwi Ibrahim, said the company had violated several conditions under the Private Agencies Act 1971.


Read more: Cops form task force to hunt killer - Top News - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/top-news/cops-form-task-force-to-hunt-killer-1.384604#ixzz2impLA4cy

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