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Indonesian Killer ‘Annoyed’ Over Sacking
June 21, 2010

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Roland
4:11pm Jun 21, 2010

Two beacons in the selfless help for poor Indonesian students SAVAGELY murdered - and for what? Ah, the ex-gardener was annoyed because he didn't fit into the job (as it sadly confirms now after the killing!)

Well, he got his "Moment of Glory" by being allowed to hold a press conference. Very sad indeed!

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A man accused of killing an elderly Japanese couple in their Indonesian home said on Monday he was “annoyed” at being sacked as their gardener, but had not meant to stab them to death.

Yasuwo Hara, 69, was stabbed in the stomach four times and his wife, Mizue, 67, in the neck and stomach on Thursday in their home in Tangerang, senior police officer Gatot Edy Pramono said.

The couple’s former gardener, Cecep Abdullah, 22, was arrested within hours while his accomplice, Iwan Iriawan, 18, was caught on Sunday, he added.

“I wanted to rob them because I needed money ... I had no intention to kill them,” Abdullah told a news conference organised by police.

“I was annoyed. I’d worked as a gardener for only a month and was fired because I couldn’t fit into the job.” Iriawan said Abdullah had promised to buy him a motorcycle if he joined him in the crime.

“I didn’t do anything, I was only holding the knife. Cecep was the one who did the killing,” he said. The brutality of the crime -- Mizue’s neck was savagely slashed -- has shocked Jakarta’s Japanese community.

The Haras had worked in Indonesia for many years and reportedly ran a scholarship fund to help poor Indonesians go to university.

Pramono said the stabbing occurred after the husband tried to protect his wife from the knife-wielding intruders. “Nothing was taken. The perpetrators panicked and ran away,” he said.

The suspects allegedly snuck into the couple’s house through the garage and attacked them as they were eating dinner.


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