Guard linked to murder has no criminal record, drug-free - Police

A security guard who ran amok and stabbed a bank officer to death and injured another at a bank in Taman Molek here yesterday does not have a criminal record.

The 44-year-old man who was remanded for a week to facilitate investigations into the murder, tested negative for drugs.

Johor police chief Datuk Seri Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the suspect who began work at the HSBC branch in January last year, did not have a firearms license.

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"He was assigned for static guard duties at the bank's building and parking area," he told reporters after visiting the murdered HSBC bank officer Ho Chin Tau's 34-year-old widow who is five-months pregnant with the couple's first child, and family members in Tampoi here

The couple had been childless for five years.

In yesterday's 3.30pm incident, Ho, 33, sustained stab wounds in the face and chest while his female colleague, aged 54, was slashed in the face when a security guard ran amok and attacked them.