Apriadi Gunawan

The Jakarta Post/Medan

The Medan District Court delivered on Tuesday a life sentence to a university student who was found guilty of killing his lecturer.

Roymardo Sah Siregar, a student at North Sumatra Muhammadiyah University (UMSU) in Medan, North Sumatra, stabbed Nurain Lubis after being scolded many times. The murder took place at the campus on National Education Day, which falls every May 2, last year, which made many see the crime as evidence of the country's failing education system.

Presiding judge Sontan Marauke said the court found the defendant had intended to kill Nurain as he had carried a knife and hammer to campus and waited for the victim all day before attacking her.  

“The defendant has committed premeditated murder that violates Article 340 of the Criminal Code and deserves a life sentence,” said Sontan.

On the day of the murder, Roymardo, who was in the sixth semester of his studies, left his rented room in the morning carrying a knife and a hammer to attend a class at the campus. He kept the tools inside a compartement of his motorcycle.

As the lecturer for the class did not appear that day, he took the tools and put them in his pockets and headed to the building in which Nurain had her office. He saw her and followed her to the toilet, where he stabbed her four times in the neck and forehead. (wit)

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