【Case of Ye Xinyuan's Murder】Body Sent Directly to Cheras Crematorium, "Briefly Reunites" with Family for Two Hours Before Cremation

 

Ye Xinyuan's body was arranged to leave the mortuary on Friday morning and proceed with the cremation ceremony within two hours.

According to reports, the deceased's body was arranged to leave the morgue at 9:35 am and was directly sent to the Kuala Lumpur Cheras Crematorium for cremation. It is understood that the body arrived at the crematorium around 11 am, where the deceased's mother, two younger sisters, and relatives were already waiting.

Earlier, the deceased's father mentioned, when questioned outside the mortuary, that he would arrange a cremation ceremony for the body and leave the funeral arrangements to the funeral director.

Ye Xinyuan's father arrived alone at the Selangor Banting Hospital morgue around 9:10 am to claim his daughter's body. He left the morgue after less than 20 minutes, after giving instructions to the funeral director several times.

At around 9:35 am, Ye Xinyuan's body was placed in a vehicle and arranged to leave the morgue. During this period, the deceased's father was very silent and was in contact with others via his phone.

During a brief media interview, he expressed that he was still saddened by the passing of his eldest daughter among three siblings.

He mentioned that he could not recognize his daughter's appearance when claiming the body. "I couldn't see (her) appearance."

He stated that now that his daughter has passed away, the family cannot accept it but has no choice but to accept it. He also said that all arrangements for his daughter's funeral were entrusted to the funeral director.

The deceased was the eldest among three sisters. She went missing after leaving home on December 19 last year. The police launched a search operation at 2:15 am the next day after receiving a report; her boyfriend also reported her missing on December 22 when she disappeared in the afternoon.

Her body was found nine days later near the Sungai Changkang flood mitigation project, about 60 kilometers away. The corpse was decomposed at the time. Police subsequently sent the body for post-mortem and DNA testing at Banting, confirming her identity five days later.

The police reclassified the case from a missing person to a murder investigation under Section 302 of the Penal Code and began detaining three suspects for investigation from Tuesday (December 31, 2024), including the deceased's boyfriend, aged 16, 20, and 51, for additional six days to assist in the investigation.