How far would you go for a misunderstanding?

How far would you go if you had a misunderstanding with someone? Burn him? Reading the news article, I'm rather surprised by how the title was set "Victim attacked over a misunderstanding". How much more pathetic can this be?

Even worse, the criminals involved are not those who are uneducated. To be able to study at the tertiary level, one would expect students to be more mature in their actions and not commit such atrocities.

 

Four Undergrads among 8 held for setting fire to teen (03 March 2012, NST Online)

Victim attacked over a misunderstanding

SHAH ALAM: FOUR university students were among eight suspects arrested for allegedly dousing a youth with petrol and setting him on fire last Sunday.

The victim, Muhammad Syahirudin Mohd Shauki, 19, managed to jump into a drain to douse the flames and is now in critical condition at the intensive care unit of Sungai Buloh Hospital.

He suffered more than 80 per cent burns on his body.

State police chief Datuk Tun Hisan Tun Hamzah said besides the four university students, two were employees at a fashion boutique, one was a despatch rider and the other a burger seller.

Investigations revealed that Syahirudin was attacked over a misunderstanding he had with one of the suspects in December. The eight suspects, aged between 19 and 25, were remanded yesterday.

Syahirudin was found wearing only his underwear by villagers in Kampung Sepakat, Hulu Selangor.

He was believed to have been lured out by one of the students before being bundled into a car by three men in Kota Damansara.

He was taken to an oil palm estate, doused with petrol and set alight before being left for dead.

Badly burnt, he walked about 400m to seek help from a nearby house before he was sent to the hospital. It is understood that Syahirudin earned a living by selling footwear at night markets.

Police made their first arrest within hours after the attack when they nabbed two women, aged 19 and 20, here. In follow-up operations early yesterday, police raided a house in Labu Kubong, Teluk Intan, where they arrested six men.

Tun Hisan said investigations showed that one of the suspects had a grudge against Syahirudin and had used one of the women to flirt with him before abducting him. He added that with the arrests of the suspects, police believe they have solved the case.