KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: Four years have passed, but the police vow that they will not let See Sheau Fang's killers go free

Kuala Langat police chief Supt Zulkifli Mohamed said the case was not "cold" yet and he was determined to bring the prime suspect, Kher Tian Hock, to justice.

"I have reminded my officers to be vigilant during this festive period.

"I believe that he will be coming back here and we have intelligence on his whereabouts," said Zulkifli, adding that Tian Hock's family still lived in the area.

However, he declined to reveal anything more for fear of jeopardising investigations.

He played down reports of Tian Hock being sighted in various areas in Klang, saying that most of them were unlikely to be true.

"We have also heard that he has a limp in his gait and that he has become very dark."

Zulkifli said the police would go all out to bring Tian Hock to justice.

"I am unhappy that he has been free for so long. I want him arrested."

He dismissed rumours that Tian Hock was a big gangster in the Jenjarum area.

"He is not a gangster. He is just a very violent man."

Chronology of events

- Feb 26, 2004: See Sheau Fang was seen leaving her house at 9pm in a silver Proton Waja bearing the registration number "5678". She was neven seen by her family again.

- Feb 28, 2004: Sheau Fang's father, See Soo Thiam, and a few friends met Kher Tian Hock (prime suspect) to obtain information on her whereabouts but were brushed off. See alerted the police.

- Feb 29, 2004: See received and paid a RM40,000 ransom demand, dropping the money off at a roundabout in Klang. However, Sheau Fang was not freed.

- March 8, 2004: Sheau Fang's decomposed body, with her hands tied at her back, was found wrapped in plastic and a blanket in a 1.6m-deep concrete-covered pit in the compound of a house in Sijangkang, where Tian Hock and his younger brother, Then Heng, lived with three others. All five were arrested, though the other three were later released.

- March 13, 2004: Tian Hock escaped from the Tanjung Sepat police station lock-up. He asked for the use of the toilet, broke through the ceiling, climbed onto the roof and scaled the perimeter fence to freedom.

Despite a statewide manhunt and a RM40,000 bounty for information leading to his recapture, he remains on the loose. The constable who escorted him to the toilet, the lance corporal who was on duty at the police station, and a detective were suspended.

- April 3, 2004: Then Heng was charged in the Telok Datuk magistrate's court with the murder of See Sheau Fang.

- July 8, 2004: Tian Hock's wife was attacked by an unknown person who tried to force poison down her throat. She was hospitalised at the Banting Hospital and put under round-the-clock guard.

- Aug 16, 2004: Then Heng's trial was fixed for hearing from Oct 1-5, 2007 because no earlier dates were available.

- Sept 9, 2004: Then Heng's case was brought forward to June 20-24, 2005 after the setting up of a new High Court under judge Datuk Zaharah Ibrahim.

- Jan 24, 2008: Then Heng was acquitted when the High Court held that there was no prima facie case against him.

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