854 Malayan Law Journal [2011] 7 MLJ Both Nur Hanani and Zalina had left her alone in the apartment after they had left off to their respective work places in the morning. SP4 had left her set of keys to the apartment with Siti Zawiah her which the latter was to hand over to SP4 when they meet up at the bus station in Rawang later in the evening, where Siti Zawiah was to catch a bus on her way back to Kota Bharu. That was the proposed and professedly agreed plan between them. [3] But when SP4 called Siti Zawiah in the evening to remind her of their meet up at the bus station at Rawang town, there was no answer and although her subsequent SMSes (short messaging service) to Siti Zawiah were answered to the effect that she was on her way to the station but was caught up in a traffic jam as it was raining, Siti Zawiah never turned up at the station as planned earlier. At about 8pm that night, SP4 then headed for home to her apartment, having waited for Siti Zawiah in vain. A B C D [4] When SP3 arrived at the front of her apartment at about 12 midnight, she opened the grille door. She then went on to enter into the hall in her apartment through the wooden door. After switching on the light she saw Siti Zawiah’s bag was still in the living hall in the apartment. As she proceeded further inside the apartment, she heard a noise that sounded like someone breathing heavily but slowly, as if in exhaustion after a run, coming from inside the apartment but she could not tell its exact source. As she tried to hear more closely, she heard her neighbour’s apartment’s door being opened and shortly afterwards, she saw Zalina (SP4) and her neighbour standing at the door of their apartment. Zalina told her that she had no key to open the apartment’s door, as she had left her keys to Siti Zawiah. SP3 said at that point in time, the noise had become louder and all of them were too scared to proceed further into the apartment. At that time too, a man whom they knew as ‘Boy’ happened to come up the stairs on his way up the apartment block and they had asked him to accompany them to enter into the apartment, to which he had obliged. By then, they could already tell that the noise had come from inside Zalina’s room but when they tried to open the door to the room, they found that it was locked. SP3 managed to locate the spare key to that room and with it they managed to open the door. They then switched on the light in the room and to their horror and shock they saw Siti Zawiah was writhing in pain on the floor in the room. She said that she saw blood all over Siti Zawiah’s head and there was a piece of rafia string that appeared to have been tied loosely round her body. The sarong that Siti Zawiah was wearing had been raised to her waist and the shirt that she was wearing had been pushed upto her chest and half her hair have covered her face. [5] After appropriately covering Siti Zawiah, they brought her to the Selayang Hospital with the assistance of Zalina’s auntie. Both SP3 and SP4 E F G H I