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Civil lawyer stabbed to death outside his office |
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 08:40am |
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©The
Star (Used by permission)
by Bernard See
PENANG: A well-known civil lawyer died shortly after a man stabbed him on
the back with a long knife in Green Hall.
Datuk S.P. Annamalai, 59, was walking back to his car with clerk S. Nalaaini,
20, when a man suddenly walked up from behind and stabbed him at 6.35pm
yesterday.
Nalaaini, when met at Gleneagles Medical Centre (GMC), said the
dark-complexioned man shouted as he stabbed Annamalai.
“I was so stunned that I dropped the files I was carrying. The man then took the
blood-soaked knife and swung it at me but missed.
“My boss’ blood splattered all over my blouse. He also swung the knife at
another lawyer who happened to be at the car park, but missed before fleeing on
a motorcycle ridden by an accomplice,” she said.
She said several lawyers from the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre heard her screams
and ran out of the office.
“One of them then helped my boss to his car and rushed him to the GMC,” she
said.
Annamalai died at about 8pm. Forensic pathologist Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh will
conduct a post-mortem today.
Another clerk, G. Selvi, 36, said she was walking to a nearby bus stop when one
of the staff at the office alerted her on what had just occurred.
“I believe the assailant was lying in wait for him. I do not know who would want
to do this to him as he only handled civil cases. He had not been handling
criminal cases for some time.
“He was in a good mood the whole day. He even bought my daughter, seven, a
Deepavali dress. This was the first time he had done such a thing in my 16 years
of working for him,” she said.
Selvi said her boss’ wife, who was in India to visit relatives, had been
informed of his death, adding that shew as expected to return to Penang this
morning.
Annamalai, the current deputy president of Ramakrishna Ashrama, leaves behind a
daughter who is a lawyer in Australia, and two sons who are working in Kuala
Lumpur.
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