Nurin Jazlin

In 2018, Nurin's father pleaded to the police to reopen his daughter’s case and investigate it using the latest technology.

On the morning of 17 September 2007, a brand-new gym bag was left in front of a shop lot in PJS 1/48, Petaling Jaya, discovered by the shop owner. It contained an unidentified child's naked body which had been stuffed in the fetal position; police believed that she had been dead for more than six hours before the discovery. A cucumber and a brinjal were found stuffed inside her genitals and had caused her rectum to rupture. It was determined that bacterial infection had contributed to her death.

The nature of her brutal torture and eventual death at the hands of an unknown assailant, suspected to be a psychopathic killer, sparked outrage throughout the country. Malaysian media and Internet blogs have been filled with anger and disbelief in reaction to the case, and the murder is widely considered to be "the country's most horrifying crime in years." The case led to a statement by then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi about the possibility of publicising the list of convicted child sex offenders. Inspector-general of police Musa Hassan initially suggested that he would investigate whether Nurin's parents had been negligent, an offence which could lead to charges under Section 33 of the Child Act 2001. The suggestion provoked public outcry, most prominently from Lee Lam Thye, chairman of the Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation, who responded that punishing the parents further would be unfair.

Nurin Jazlin Binti Jazimin (11 September 1999 – 16 September 2007) was an eight-year-old Malaysian murder victim, who was originally reported missing after she had gone to a wet market near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur to buy a hair clip on the night of 20 August 2007. Her parents filed a missing person report to the police and a search for her was undertaken in the subsequent weeks by several organisations, including the mainstream media and NGOs. Police were able to find CCTV footage, from a nearby camera, showing her being dragged into a white van the night she went missing. Her murder has not yet been solved.