KUALA TERENGGANU - A MEDICAL assistant's fetish for used panties
was uncovered when police found hundreds of underwear hidden in a
cabinet when they searched his home for drugs.
The 2.45am raid yesterday at Kampung Rawai, Alor Limbat in
Marang did not yield any drugs but police found about 400 pairs of
panties and 10 bras that the 39-year-old man had stolen from homes
over the past year.
'He has been stealing panties since his school days. He normally
sniffs a panty for a day or two and then keeps it. 'After that, it
becomes part of his collection. He doesn't wear men's underwear but
wears the stolen panties instead,' said a police source yesterday.
'He gets a 'high' from sniffing panties.'
State narcotics chief Superintendent Roslan Abdul Wahid told a
press conference that police also believed that the assistant, who
is attached to a government clinic in Marang, had stolen panties
from patients during his previous stints at other hospitals and
clinics in Dungun and Marang.
Police officers were also taken aback when they found that the
man was wearing one of the stolen panties when they conducted a
body search.'The suspect, who is a hardcore drug user, is neither a
transvestite nor does he have previous record of sexual crimes,' he
said.
Superintendent Roslan added that the man, who is a bachelor and
lives alone, revealed that he had had the fetish since his school
days and had stolen thousands of panties in the last two decades.
He said the man also had two previous cases under Section 51 (1)(a)
of the Dangerous Drug Act for drug abuse and tested positive for
drugs yesterday. Superintendent Roslan said another four people,
including a woman, were detained in a another raid at Alor Limbat
in Marang at 5.30am the same day. Police recovered 60
amphetamine-type pills from the four.
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