• Police personnel carrying the body out of the house.

A Sabahan of Filipino origin, 49-year-old Jimmy was said to be greatly shocked that the police had actually forced open the door and shot him in the chest, abdomen and head, killing him instantly.

Jimmy kept the police at bay since 1pm on Tuesday after he slashed his wife, 39-year-old wife, Tubong Erang, several times in the back at 11.15am.

In the ensuing chaos, and while his wife was being taken to hospital, he grabbed his nephew and used him as a human shield in the room where he barricaded himself in.

In a media conference held at the local police headquarters yesterday, Acting Commissioner of Police Datuk Abdul Rahman Hussein said when the police stormed the room the suspect was holding a kitchen knife against the neck of the boy whom he forced to sit on his lap.

“When the police barged in he might have got shocked and as a result his knife cut the boy’s chin,” said Abdul Rahman.

He also admitted that the police fired several shots at Jimmy with the hope of saving the boy who was already bleeding from several slash wounds in the chest.

“He cut three of the boy’s fingers one by one. The first was the small finger of the left hand, followed by the ring finger and finally the middle finger which he threw under the door,” he said.

He recalled that the boy’s cries when he was tortured by the “monstrous” man were both heart-wrenching and nerve-racking.

During the stand-off, Jimmy made two demands. He wanted to see his wife and the man whom he suspected of having an affair with her, and he wanted drugs.

He threatened to kill the boy if his demands were not met. Negotiations between him and the police who were aided by his daughter, Pamela, 15, and son, 17, (name not disclosed) failed to break the deadlock.

Abdul Rahman said it was impossible for the police to meet the demands as Tubong whom he had stabbed was unconscious and admitted to the local hospital’s intensive care unit.

As for the man whom Jimmy claimed to have an affair with his wife, Abdul Rahman said, “We don’t believe that the man exists. This is just jealousy.”

Jimmy, he said, was a known drug dependent who had no criminal record until the tragic day.

“We think that the motive of the crime is jealousy and we believed that the suspect was involved in drug abuse, which explained why he was violent,” said Abdul Rahman.

On Tubong’s condition, he said she was reported to be in stable condition. However, her nephew, Michael Lok, a Methodist kindergarten pupil, was still in the operating room as of 3pm yesterday.

His condition was said to be critical, but the doctors were doing their best to save him.

Jimmy’s body was removed from the house and taken to the hospital mortuary about 11.30am yesterday.

Abdul Rahman said Jimmy used to work at a logging camp in Belaga, but had been jobless for quite sometime till yesterday.

When asked where in the house Tubong was slashed by her husband, he replied, “It was in the living room.”

Jimmy and Tubong as well as two of four children have been staying for quite sometime with the family of Sudu Erang, Tubong’s sister.

Sudu’s husband, Lok Fong Sang, 65, was not at home the time when Jimmy ran amok.

When Lok finally came home on Tuesday evening he too pleaded to Jimmy using a mobile phone to release Michael.

Sudu was said to be hysterical when she saw Tubong’s bloody body on the floor. Screaming as she ran out of the house, she caught the attention of her neighbours, several of whom rushed out to help.

Among those at the media conference were the local police chief Superintendent Sulaiman Abdul Razak, State CID head SAC II Tun Hissan Tun Hamzah, local Marine Police chief, DSP Chris Goh, Bintulu special branch head, ASP Kho Poh Chuan and local CID chief, ASP Azmi Aziz.