Wendy hailed from Ipoh. When she was promoted to assistant branch manager and transferred to a branch in Johore Bahru, she had to find a place of her own. After some canvassing for an affordable place, she found one on the second floor of a rented walk-up apartment in Tebrau. The four-storey building was quite old and there was only one apartment on each floor.
One day, when she returned from work, she found the door to her apartment slightly ajar. Sensing that something was wrong, she gently pushed the door inward. The sight that greeted her made her gasp in horror. The apartment was in a mess. The couch and coffee table had been overturned. The glass door of the display cabinet was broken and everything was strewn all over the floor. She realized that her apartment had been burgled.
The, a sudden thought came to her which made her heart thump with fear. What if the burglars were still in her apartment, in her bedroom? She pulled the door again and left it slightly ajar. Then, she ran down the stairs as quietly as she could. Once on the ground floor, she used her cellular phone to call the police.
The police arrived in less than ten minutes. There were four policemen and they accompanied Wendy to her apartment. The police told Wendy to stay outside the flat while the four policemen, with drawn arms, centred the apartment. They carefully searched the apartment for the burglars but it was obvious that the culprits left long ago.
The police then sent for the crime technicians. The technicians spent more than hour looking for clues and dusting for fingerprint. Then, the police asked her to make a careful inventory of her things and to report the stolen items and to give her statement.
Many weeks passed but the burglars were never caught and Wendy gave up hope of ever recovering her stolen valuables. Still, she continued to stay at the same place, but she had taken better security measures and even installed burglar alarm to safeguard her property.
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