How to be a criminal and never fear getting caught
February 9th, 2009Requirements: you must have an identical twin.
How: when committing a crime, tail your sibling, but don’t get involved in the act. If the police catch him, only then you make your appearance.
Case study: Identical twins R Sathis Raj and R Sabarish Raj, 27.
They looked alike and since they are identical twins, their DNA is identical.
On 5th August 2003, one of them drove with 166kg of cannabis and almost 2kg or raw opium to a house. The police were waiting, and arrested him. The other brother arrived shortly later, then also arrested.
The High Court, through testimonies or DNA tests, failed to decide which brother arrived first at the house (hence the owner of the drugs), hence acquitted both. Justice Datuk Zaharah Ibrahim said she could not “send the wrong person to his death,” although there’s no doubt one of them is guilty.
Would this give the guilty one ideas to delve back to a life of crime?
Source
The Star, 7 Feb 2009
… that means these guys could walk around with stolen Bluetooth headsets without any worries …
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Hahah! Nah, how does the system overcome this?
Very good question!
I thought this was cool when I read the story. There’s always room for doubt if dealing with identitical twins. Even in a non-crime related…there’s bound to be confusion also.
sanang saja – kasi siksa dia sampai mengaku…..!!!!!!!!! ahahahaha atau gunakan khidmat Bomoh… pasti mujarab…
When i heard this news on the radio, i said wah there is a serious flaw in our system. Did they study our law carefully and planned the whole thing? Did one of them intentionally showed up when his twin was busted or just a mere coincident? Does this case ever happened in other country and how their law confronted it? I wonder if after this, many identical twins will commit crime and try to get away with it …
I read up a little bit:
- same problem faced the world over
- probably most infamous is the Cooper twins rape case, which was committed in 1999 but the trail seems to have gone cold in 2005, even though a company which claimed to be able to see tiny differences in identical DNAs was involved.
- some other crime cases involving identical twins were solved relatively easily via fingerprints (identical twins have DIFFERENT fingerprints) or lie detector tests.
Einie, minie, einie… mo Like that also can, so what’s the conclusion?
None yet
haha, DUnno..