David's team plans to sue Singaporean Police

JAKARTA: Representatives for the family of Indonesian student David Hartanto Widjaja, who was found dead at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University in March this year, plan to sue the Singaporean Police for refusing to return evidence used in the case, including David's laptop and police records to his family.

"The only choice now is to sue the Singapore Police. We want them to return David's laptop to his family," Iwan Piliangan, chairman of the team, said Wednesday to kompas.com.

Iwan said the Singapore Police agreed to return the laptop, but without the examination record or a receipt.

This would make it difficult to trace police statements in previous trials, he said. For example, he said, the police claimed to have found a document in the computer on Jan. 24 that said David wanted to commit suicide, but his family claims David was with the family at the time.

The police also claim David visited websites about suicide, but they failed to mention any dates, he added. - JP