08 September 2008 :

a policeman in Malaysia who was sentenced to death for murdering singer Along lost his appeal in the Court of Appeal. Justices Datin Paduka Zaleha Zahari, Datuk Wan Adnan Muhamad and Datuk Ahmad Maarop unanimously upheld the death sentence handed down by the Seremban High Court on Lance Corporal Mohamed Ya’cob Demyati, 42. Wan Adnan, in his judgment, said the High Court was right in finding that Along was killed due to blows inflicted by Ya’cob. Ahmad, in his judgment, said Ya’cob was angry upon finding that his wife, a public relations officer at a recording company, was having an affair with Along. On April 10, 2002, the Seremban High Court sentenced Mohamed Ya’cob, of the Guards and Escorts Branch of the Kuala Lumpur police contingent headquarters, to death after finding him guilty of murdering Along at Km 28 of the Kuala Klawang-Genting Peras road in Jelebu at 1am on Dec 26, 1999. Along, 19, whose real name was Sabi’ul Malik Shafiee, was reported missing on Dec 25, 1999, and his skeletal remains were found in a gunny sack on a hillslope along Jalan Kuala Klawang on Jan 6, 2000.