DRIVEN by his ravenous sexual appetite, a man posed as a police officer to intimidate a 15-year-old boy into doing his bidding, reported Harian Metro.

During the incident on Monday evening, the "officer", in his 50s, had approached the teenager at a cybercafe in Ampang and threatened to handcuff him.

Feeling intimidated, the boy decided to follow the man home to his apartment for "interrogation".

A police source told the tabloid that in the apartment, the man had asked the teenager if he took drugs.

"But by then, he could no longer hold in his sexual urges and started to grope the boy's private parts and even tried to sodomise him.

"He later threatened the boy to keep the incident a secret," he said.

The boy subsequently lodged a police report.

> The daily also reported that an angry motorist chased a motorcyclist, who had snatched his wife's bag, for about a kilometre before ramming into him with his vehicle.

When the snatch thief tried to make his escape on foot, the man, who is in his 30s, gave chase and managed to apprehend him with the help of bystanders.

The thief who suffered injuries to his hands and legs in the 8.30am incident on Wednesday was handed over to the Ampang Jaya police station.

> Berita Harian reported that a 33-year-old former security guard has been charged at a magistrate's court on Thursday. with killing his toddler son

Muhaimi Sautar had allegedly slit three-year-old Muhammad Adam Muzhaffar's throat with a knife on Oct 24 at his home in Kampung Sungai Budor, Kota Baru, almost severing it.

When the charge was read out to him before magistrate Mohd Yusoff Yunus, Muhaimi, who was later sent for a psychiatric evaluation, merely nodded.

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