Religious teacher to hang for boy’s murder

ALOR STAR: A religious teacher was sentenced to death by hanging today for the murder of a seven-year-old pupil four years ago.
Hanif Mohd Ali, 31, was found guilty of killing Saiful Syazani Saiful Sopfidee in the warden’s office at Asrama Putra, Sekolah Rendah Islam Al-Furqan, in Arau, Perlis between 6 pm and 12 am on March 31, 2011.
Judicial commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab said the defence failed to cast any reasonable doubt on the prosecution’s case.
In his judgement, he said Hanif had throttled the boy resulting in cerebral hypoxia that fatally injured him.
Hanif who was also a hostel warden at the religious primary school, was sentenced to 18 years’ jail in March 2012 after pleading guilty to an amended charge, under Section 304(a) of the Penal Code, for causing death.
However, the prosecution appealed to the Court of Appeal and succeeded in reinstating the original charge, under Section 302 of the Penal Code, for murder.
The prosecution was represented by deputy public prosecutor Badius Zaman Ahmad, while Hanif, by counsel Mohd Shakir Khairi.
–BERNAMA

MH370 : Summary of PC and news from major media, Day 21

(1) Malaysian Cabinet decided to continue support the families of the those on flight MH370

(2) New search area indicated as further data analysis indicated MH370 flew faster than previously anticipated.

(3) AMSA said further changes in search areas is possible as more data is analysed and higher accuracy is obtained. Main methods used is analysis movement of plane, satellite data, sophiscated oceanography modelling

(4) US sending second Poseidon from Okinawa to help with SAR

(5) Current search area had shifted about 650-700 miles northeast of previous search area. and is about 1680km west of Perth

(6) Japanese satellite also show about 10 floating objects

(7) Since search area is far from land, planes take to reach the area and can only search for few hours at most before turning back for refuel.

(8) Today SAR continued as weather was good

(9) Minister Hishamuddin to brief opposition MPs

(10) 6 countries involved in SAR

(11) After 30 days, option may be deep sea surveillance and salvage

(12) After midnight today, it will be 3 weeks since plane went missing

(13) Malaysian artistes and celebrities who are popular in China, being attacked online due to MH370

(14) Police investigations - no updates yet.

(15) MAS says rostering is done for pilots and not necessarily both of them knew each other before this


 By M.Poobalan

MH370: Summary of Today's News

(1) Thai satellites identified about 300 object ranging from 1m to 15m floating about 200km
south-west from current search area

(2) China's vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui visited 21 family members of the 154 Chinese passengers on board flight MH370 at the Bangi-Putrajaya Hotel

(3) Today's SAR was cut short before noon due to bad weather. However ships remain in search area while aircrafts turned back. Today's search covered 16,298 sq nautical miles in West sector (4 planes) and 6,506 sq nautical miles in East sector (5 planes)

(4) Insurance companies started to disburse insurance claims of victims

(5) Police will leave no stones unturned, says IGP

(6) Home Minister answered in parliament on how 2 Iranians entered with forged identities

(7) Malaysia is to send a team to Perth to assist in SAR mission involving DCA, MAS, TUDM and TLDM

(8) US Navy's Bluefin 21 autonomous submarine had arrived in Perth

(9) Family members of some victims onboard the ill-fated Flight MH370 are filing a RM4.95bil suit for compensation, against Boe­ing and Malaysia Airlines. Chicago-based firm Ribbeck Law Chartered, which is acting for the family members, has filed a petition of discovery in a court in Illinois, Chicago.

Monica Kelly, the lead lawyer from Ribbeck Law, said the firm which specialises in aviation law, had been approached by family members from China and Indonesia. Kelly said they spoke to family members in many countries and expected about half of those affected to take part in the suit.
“We have done many cases where wreckage was completely destroyed, or no bodies found, or wreckage found but no black boxes working. We are not relying on these things to start the legal process,” said Kelly, during a briefing to the press here.

She said such suits can take anywhere between four months to five years, but expects this case to take between one-and-a-half to two years.

The firm would focus its suit against Boeing, as they believe it was a case of equipment malfunction but could expand the defendants to include other component manufacturers or even those who trained

By M.Poobalan



the crew

MH370 : Summary PC and major news channels

Summary PC and major news channels:

(1) Few sightings of objects (2 orange color about 1metre length, white color drum, wooden pellets etc) but not yet able to reach or identify if related to MH370.

(2) US bringing towed Pinger Locator to southern Indian Ocean

(3) Police have interviewed more than 100 people so far

(4) 18,500 square nautical miles were searched yesterday

(5) weather expected to be rough in coming days due to Cyclone Gillian

(6) 6 Malaysian ships northern of search area. 10 Chinese also in the region

(7) Turkmenistan confirms no radar sightings

(8) PM Najib was informed by PM Abbott on the objects sighted

(9) French satellite data received (radar image yesterday and camera image today) and passed to Australia govt

(10) Families requesting detailed information, but Hishamuddin said unable to reveal too much

(11) HMAS Success should be able to retrieve objects by tomorrow

(12) Briefing in Beijing took 8hrs yesterday

(13) 20,000 square nautical miles search area today.

(14) Planes from Japan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, China involved in SAR

By M. Poobalan

MH370 : Family Members of Passengers Were Forcibly Removed

 'You are traitors to us... just tell us the truth': Screaming family members of missing MH370  passengers are dragged out of press conference as they finally snap after 11 days of lies and confusion.

Screaming family members of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet were forcibly removed from a hotel room after invading a press conference which was about to start and accusing the Malaysian government of failing to work hard enough to find the plane.

Half a dozen people held up banners blaming the government of inaction as airline officials desperately tried to resume order.

But one women screamed: 'You are traitors to us... you have let us down. Tell us the truth! We want the truth!'

During the press conference, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said officials had received further radar data, but were 'not at liberty to release information from other countries'

MH370: Pieces of aircraft found floating on Andhra coast?

Pieces of what is suspected to be an aircraft were seen washed up on Andhra coast Wednesday, a Telugu television channel reported.

Fishermen, who saw them floating at Kutta Gouduru beach in T.P. Gudur mandal of Nellore district in south coastal Andhra off Bay of Bengal, informed the police.

According to a channel, the authorities alerted the top officials. However, there was no confirmation from any official if the objects seen floating were indeed pieces of an aircraft.

An airplane of the Malaysia Airlines, with 239 people, including five Indians aboard, vanished while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing March 8.

A TV news channel in Malaysia had reported two days ago that missing plane may have crashed either in the Bay of Bengal or in the Indian Ocean.

MH370: China families dragged away by police

MH370 : Maldives residents report 'low-flying jumbo jet' sighting on March 8

Residents of Kuda Huvadhoo in Dhaal Atoll in the Maldives reportedly saw a "low-flying jumbo jet" flying over houses early in the morning of March 8, the same day Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing.

In a report by Maldivian daily Haveeru, residents described the aircraft which flew over Kuda Huvadhoo at around 6.15am as being white, with red stripes across it.
This colour scheme is very similar to the livery used by Malaysia Airlines on its aircraft - including the Boeing 777 used for MH370.

Eyewitnesses who saw the aircraft agreed that it was travelling in a north to south east heading towards Addu, the southern tip of the Maldives, and all commented on the very loud noise the aircraft made when flying over the island.

One noted that the doors on the aircraft could be seen clearly, a fact that was also agreed upon by other eyewitnesses.

"Some people got out of their houses to see what was causing the tremendous noise too," said the eyewitness, and it was reported that Island Councillor, Mohamed Zaheem had said that other residents of Kuda Huvadhoo had spoken up about the incident.

Haveeru had also quoted a local aviation expert, who said it was likely for MH370 to have flown over the Maldives, adding that the possibility of any aircraft flying over the island was extremely low.
MH370, which left KL International Airport for Beijing on March 8, has been in the international spotlight since it disappeared in the early hours of that same day along with its 239 passengers and crew.

Twenty-six countries are now searching for the 777 along two corridors the aircraft is expected to have flown, based on satellite data obtained since MH370 disappeared from Malaysian radars at 2.15am on March 8.
Aside from Malaysia, these countries include the United States, Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and France.

MH370 Spotted on Andaman island???

https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/brunosan.map-cyglrrfu,brunosan.FlightMH370.html?secure=1#17/13.29429/92.99495

Source Says MH370 Deliberately Flown to Andaman Islands

New details given on the direction in which the unidentified aircraft was heading — following aviation corridors identified on maps used by pilots as N571 and P628. These routes are taken by commercial planes flying from Southeast Asia to the Middle East or Europe and can be found in public documents issued by regional aviation authorities.

In a far more detailed description of the military radar plotting than has been publicly revealed, the first two sources said the last confirmed position of MH370 was at 35,000 feet about 90 miles (144 km) off the east coast of Malaysia, heading towards Vietnam, near a navigational waypoint called “Igari”. The time was 1.21am.
The military track suggests it then turned sharply westwards, heading towards a waypoint called “Vampi”, northeast of Indonesia’s Aceh province and a navigational point used for planes following route N571 to the Middle East.

From there, the plot indicates the plane flew towards a waypoint called “Gival”, south of the Thai island of Phuket, and was last plotted heading northwest towards another waypoint called “Igrex”, on route P628 that would take it over the Andaman Islands and which carriers use to fly towards Europe.