KUALA LUMPUR - EVEN in death, people will not leave alone Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, the eight-year-old who was killed and whose body was dumped inside a bag.

Post-mortem photographs of her body are being circulated on the Internet, and the police are furious.

Those caught with such photographs could be charged under the Official Secrets Act, said the Selangor police chief, Deputy Commissioner Khalid Abu Bakar.

'All those who have in their possession the pictures must hand over such pictures immediately or face the consequences,' he said.

Datuk Khalid said his officers were investigating who could have leaked the pictures and how.

The pictures being circulated include those taken at the crime scene as well as those taken during and after the post-mortem.

Nurin's murder shocked Malaysians as her naked body was stuffed inside a bag and left outside a shop nearly a month after she vanished on Aug 20 after going to a night market alone near her home.

A post-mortem found that she had been sexually abused and died of massive internal bleeding.

The Malay Mail tabloid reported yesterday that only two people took the photographs when the post-mortem was being conducted.

They were the head of forensics at Hospital Kuala Lumpur and the police investigating officer.

The hospital denied its senior officer leaked the photographs and has asked police to investigate.

Said Nurin's father Jazimin Abdul Jalil: 'This is not a movie that can be shown to the public. This is a tragedy. We have suffered enough.'

THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK