Assassin might have been tricked into murdering Kim Jong Un’s brother by ‘friends’
An ‘assassin’ may have been tricked into the murder of Kim Jong-un’s
brother by ‘friends’ who told her to ‘wipe poison on him as a prank’, it
has been claimed.
A 28-year-old woman arrested in connection with the death of North
Korean Kim Jong-nam is believed to have told police she was ‘abandoned’
by a group she was on ‘holiday’ in Kuala Lumpur with after allegedly
applying a toxin to his face.
Doan Thi Huong, of Vietnam, has been named as the woman captured on CCTV at Kuala Lumpur Airport wearing a white t-shirt branded with LOL and a blue skirt. Photos have since emerged showing the suspect being led into a police car.
Police sources said Doan – which may be a false name – had told officers that she had been convinced by another woman and four men to play a prank on Kim and it was never her intention to kill or even hurt him and she thought it was ‘a harmless joke’.
It comes as a second woman named as Siti Aishah, 25, from Indonesia and her Malaysian boyfriend were arrested over the death.
Indonesia’s foreign ministry said the second woman is an Indonesian citizen and has requested consular access to her.
Officers were expected to release more details of Aishah’s detention later.
The New Straits Times said today that the attack on Kim Jong-nam had been captured on one of a number of CCTV cameras and the vision had revealed the movements of the two women said to be involved.
The paper said that the assailants had moved separately as Kim was preparing to check in for his flight to Macau at the self-service check in booths.
‘It is understood that one of the suspects, who was picked up from
the same airport yesterday, was the one who had apparently finished the
job,’ said the paper, referring to the woman seen wearing a top with LOL
emblazoned on the front.
Security camera footage reportedly shows the same woman wearing a dark-coloured glove on her left hand as she walked towards the taxi stand. By the time she reached the taxi area, she was no longer wearing the glove.
There are suggestions that the glove might have been laced with poison when it was wiped across Kim’s face.
He had headed to the washroom immediately after the attack, but had then turned back to the information counter to seek help complaining of pain in his eyes.
Doan Thi Huong, of Vietnam, has been named as the woman captured on CCTV at Kuala Lumpur Airport wearing a white t-shirt branded with LOL and a blue skirt. Photos have since emerged showing the suspect being led into a police car.
Police sources said Doan – which may be a false name – had told officers that she had been convinced by another woman and four men to play a prank on Kim and it was never her intention to kill or even hurt him and she thought it was ‘a harmless joke’.
It comes as a second woman named as Siti Aishah, 25, from Indonesia and her Malaysian boyfriend were arrested over the death.
Officers were expected to release more details of Aishah’s detention later.
The New Straits Times said today that the attack on Kim Jong-nam had been captured on one of a number of CCTV cameras and the vision had revealed the movements of the two women said to be involved.
The paper said that the assailants had moved separately as Kim was preparing to check in for his flight to Macau at the self-service check in booths.
Security camera footage reportedly shows the same woman wearing a dark-coloured glove on her left hand as she walked towards the taxi stand. By the time she reached the taxi area, she was no longer wearing the glove.
There are suggestions that the glove might have been laced with poison when it was wiped across Kim’s face.
He had headed to the washroom immediately after the attack, but had then turned back to the information counter to seek help complaining of pain in his eyes.
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