One suspect caught three years after gruesome murders

SEPANG: More than three years after a horrific triple murder case involving of a 64-year-old grandmother, her grandson and baby granddaughter at their house in Dengkil, a suspected killer was held on Wednesday.
The suspect who is in his 20's was a neighbour who lived a few doors away from the home of the victims in Taman Dengkil Jaya.
It is learnt that DNA profiling by forensics police matched the suspect and investigators went looking for him before a relative of the man revealed his whereabouts.
Police are now on the lookout for at least three of the suspect's accomplices, all of whom are in their 20's but were teenagers when the murder occurred on Aug 28, 2013.
Sepang police chief ACP Abdul Aziz Ali said a district CID team picked up the suspect at 9.30pm on Wednesday.
He said the suspect had links to the case after a DNA test showed a match from samples retrieved from the crime scene by forensic police personnel more than three years ago.
Sources revealed that the assailants had gone to Jayanthi's house to settle an issue with her grandson.
However, minutes later, an argument broke out between the assailants and her 21-year-old grandson.
It is learnt that when the man was attacked, Jayanthi tried to intervene but was slashed to death by the killers.
Her grandson was then killed before the assailants slit the toddlers throat.
Another grandson of Jayanthi, a Year One student, then aged seven made the gruesome discovery of the bodies when he returned to the single-storey house from school at 2pm.
As there were no signs of forced entry or robbery at the house, police investigators pointed at revenge as the possibly motive of the killing and the assailants were known to the victim.
It is yet to be determined what sparked off the fight between the assailants and Jayanthi's grandson.