MS J L Aw did not suspect that anything was amiss when her car was stopped by a policeman as she was making her way home to Goldhill Estate at around 7pm. The officer told her that the police were just tightening security - and she left it at that. It was only later that she discovered the real reason: A big manhunt was underway for Mas Selamat Kastari, the leader of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network, who had escaped from the nearby Whitley Road Detention Centre.
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