They tried to snatch police too

[Crimes]

From The Star

Cop in pursuit rams motorcycle into stalled car
BY PARVEEN GILL

PETALING JAYA: A young police constable and his girlfriend were injured when his motorcycle rammed into a stalled car following a 100m high-speed chase after two snatch thieves in Serdang Raya on Monday.

Kons Rahman Remey, 22, suffered two fractured wrists and a broken left leg in the accident, which also left bruises and light injuries on the ankles of 19-year Nazura Mastuki.

Passers-by rushed the couple to a nearby clinic but Kons Rahman was transferred to the Putrajaya Hospital for further treatment.

The thieves escaped on a Yamaha RXZ motorcycle, taking with them the girl’s handbag, which had a mobile phone and RM10.

In the 8pm incident, the couple were travelling near the Astro station when the two men came from behind. One of them grabbed Nazura’s handbag.

Kons Rahman gave chase on his motorcycle and after about 100m of darting through the traffic jam, caught up with the culprits.

He raised his left leg to knock down the suspects but, instead, crashed into the stalled car in front.

Nazura, who had just completed her STPM examination, was at the bedside of the injured cop when Petaling Jaya South deputy police chief Asst Comm Muhammad Fuad Talib visited him at 2pm yesterday.

“Both of us were just concentrating on the snatch thieves, who were riding on the left side of the road. We did not see the stalled car,” she said.

ACP Muhammad Fuad said the victims could not get the suspects’ motorcycle registration number as the pillion rider was covering the number plate with his hands during the chase.

In a Kuala Lumpur magistrate’s court, a 31-year-old housepainter with sick parents and financial problems said he moonlighted as a snatch thief to earn extra income.

That part of his career came to an end yesterday, reports CHARANJEET KAUR.

Magistrate Nazran Mohd Sham ordered Mah Yoon Keong to be jailed 24 months for attempting to grab a gold chain belonging to S. Rajaman, 28, at 1.40pm on Aug 2.