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COMMENT | Drink-driving: Take the car, sell it, and give money to the widow
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COMMENT | Amirul Hafiz Omar counted his money ringgit by ringgit. His mother watched him do it. He told her it was for the children's schooling.

On the morning of March 29, the 33-year-old warehouse worker and part-time delivery rider left home just after 10am. He had been meaning to buy a Maths workbook for his nine-year-old for several days.

His last message to his wife, Nor Nadia Abdul Majid, was about diapers that had arrived. Six minutes later, she got a call from a police officer. At first, she thought it was a scam. Then the caller mentioned her husband's name.

 At 11.40am on Jalan Raya Barat, Klang, a Honda City - driven by a man in his 20s who tested positive for both alcohol and drugs - overtook several vehicles on a double line at high speed, crossed into oncoming traffic, and hit Amirul's motorcycle head-on.

The impact threw him onto the...


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