The Seremban High Court's decision to award a woman RM100,882 after her 16-year-old son was fatally shot by a policeman 20 years ago has yet to be executed as the detective who was ordered to pay the damages has passed away.

DAP national publicity bureau secretary Gobind Singh Deo said today the sum awarded to seamstress Lee Kin Yee, 57, in 1992 cannot be recovered because the deceased policeman had no known assets.

The opposition party, which provided legal assistance to Lee when her son Hoh Swee Kong was shot dead by the policeman at Jalan Mantin, Seremban on Jan 18, 1982, has since written to the attorney-general for further action.

"We have written to the AG calling upon him to advise the government to compensate Madam Lee, given factual nexus which had led to her being unable to secure the judgment sum.

"We are currently in the process of compiling various documents for the AG's Chambers with hope that Lee gets some compensation," he said in a press statement.

DAP leader assaulted

Gobind was responding to yesterday's incident in which Lee hit former DAP leader Hu Sepang with her handbag outside the Seremban court building when he refused her request to discuss the compensation.

Hu had attended a murder trial at the court building earlier and was assaulted by Lee when he was about to have tea at a nearby stall after a recess was called.

The politician, who left DAP in 1991, lodged a police report later.

"He (Hu) told me he was no longer in DAP and had nothing to do with my case anymore. All I wanted was some answers but he chose to ignore me and continued walking," Lee was quoted as saying by The Star yesterday.

"I have been patient for the past 20 years but I just could not take it anymore," added the seamstress whose husband Yoon Hin, 64, died of cancer last year.

Meanwhile, Gobind also called on The Star to correct the negative image given to DAP through its report which suggested that the sum had been paid but not received by Lee.

He also urged the government to seriously consider compensating Lee and to do something to ensure that such problems do not recur.

"Maybe a fund should be set up to cater for judgments which cannot be executed owing to extraordinary circumstances such as this case," he said.