I’ve chosen to work on the case of Mona Fanday since I had more ideas on this one and I felt that I could actually find a concept with it.
My research work began by reading some articles on her and the story behind it and I began looking for some other information about her, I’ve found a few videos talking about her but since there was no subtitle and it was only in Malay I wasn’t able to retrieve any information from it.
Then I found a movie based on her which hopefully had English subtitle, I watched it and it was quite interesting since they showed how there were many of those Malaysian witches around some not so well populated areas in the cities.
I found a few people talking about her on their blog, but since she claimed to be a witch, the posts were not so accurate and mostly based on superstitions. I finally found an article about her on murderpedia.org, which was very detailed, where I’ve gathered information about both Mona and Idris Mazlan, the victim.
According to this post the true identity of Mona was Nur Maznah Binti Ismail, and that name, Mona Fandey, was her stage name when she was trying to get into the pop industry. She even released one album and she made an appearance on a tv show without any manager or anything. It’s her husband who gave her that name. In the earliest record of Mona, the article says that she was learning classical dance as a child. Its actually after her pop career failed that she started getting involved in witchcraft. She was quite successful as a witch since she had only some rich clients who would pay her millions of ringgits for her magic. And among them of course there was the president Idris.
Idris on the other hand was a successful kid at school and he even went to the us to pursue his studies. When he came back to Malaysia he stepped into his political career and he was quite good at it as well, he became quite known when he introduce the United Malay National Organization (UMNO). But even though, he had a quite stable life he wanted to boost his influence and wealth, so he went to Mona for this.
There was this ritual where he had to lay down and wait for money to fall on him but instead a blade fell on him and he died. Mona appear in court after his assistant who was arrested when he was found stoned revealed the truth out of his inability to control himself. Mona had a really somewhat joyful attitude in court even though she was accused of death. After appearing in the court several times she and her assistants confirmed that they’ve killed him and tried to demand pardon for their crime but the still end up with the death sentence.
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