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IPOH, MALAYSIA: An elderly couple are allegedly getting death threats from an angry Ah Long who loaned money to their 50-year-old son.
Cheng Siew Kim, 71, and her 74-year-old senile husband Choy Kit Ling are living at the mercy of the loan shark after their eldest son, a construction worker, went missing.
"The Ah Long has been hounding us for the past three weeks. He has threatened to burn down our house and kill us."
"At first, it was RM7,000 but now it has escalated to RM12,000," Cheng told reporters at a press conference here yesterday organised by Perak Gerakan Youth.
The couple, who live in a rented house at Chenderong New Village near Batu Gajah, are so afraid of the Ah Long that they have resorted to having their dinner in the dark.
"I dare not turn on the lights for fear that he and his men will come to the house," added Cheng, who has made a police report.
Perak Gerakan Youth legal adviser Ong Teng Boon, who is assisting the couple, said it was a criminal offence to threaten others.
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