By John Chin

GEORGETOWN, Malaysia: Greg Jenkins, the son of Australian Annapuranee Jenkins whose remains were found almost three years later after the grandmother first disappeared while enroute to visiting her own mother, has vowed to continue to seek justice after securing a minor breakthrough.

Jenkins was visiting Penang to lodge two new police reports on the advise of his counsel David Peter after a Penang High Court ruled that possible kidnapping and wrongful detention had not been investigated, meaning no evidence on those issues was presented to the inquest coroner or the High Court.

Hence, there is now after some six years, a token win for Greg, although it has come at a price of mental anguish and financial shortcomings, as he revealed that he has spent close to RM1.4 million in seeking justice for his beloved mother.

“It was never investigated as a kidnapping and murder, which it should have been,” he told journalists here as he came to mark his last respects at Batu Gantong where Parit Buntar - born Annapuranee's remains were first found by a construction worker.

Anna as she is best called, 65, disappeared in Penang with her now late Frank Jenkins husband in December 2017.

Some of her remains were found almost three years later at a secluded site near the Penang Turf Club which is now a fully completed luxurious living property.

Greg said the case remained open, but police had continued to treat it as a missing person case, which he claimed resulted in important witnesses and leads being overlooked.

He pointed to Anna’s final reported telephone call to her husband at about 5.22pm on Dec 13, 2017.

She allegedly told him that two people she described as Ukrainians had detained her and wanted her passport.

Greg said police did not investigate whether these two people existed or whether they had any role in his mother’s disappearance.

He said he did not know their identities and needed police to pursue the matter.

In her grounds, Penang High Court Justice Rofiah Mohamad said police had focussed solely on finding Anna rather than investigating possible crime angles.

She said there had been “no investigation whatsoever” into the two alleged Ukrainians.

Rofiah ruled out natural death, suicide and accident, leaving homicide and an open verdict as the two possible findings.

However, she upheld the open verdict as there was insufficient evidence to prove that another person had caused Anna’s death.

Greg has since lodged two police reports.

Despite not sleeping well for the past several years and having to take on additional work, Jenkins said that he is determined to find justice for his mother, citing that no family should be allowed to undergo the ordeal that he had to endure over the lack of information and collaboration over how his mother died.

Concurrently, Greg is also taking libel action against the Royal Malaysian Police for criminal negligence over the management of his mother's disappearance and ensuing death.

Greg also lamented that he has failed to receive full consular assistance from the Australian Royal High Commission over the matter with the exception of them sending over representatives to attend his legal cases.

With the entire world seemingly against him, Greg has found courage and support from his family, friends, mates and the media to continue his one made crusade for justice.

In the meantime, he has also extended his assistance to other families, whose loved ones have gone missing, having comforted the family of a British family, whose daughter was found dead, including an Australian couple and their relative, who were found murdered at the Lake Hotel in the Philippines.

"Only by helping others, can I find some solace in my own struggle for justice," said Jenkins, who has decided to just eat two meals daily to save as much income as possible to underwrite his quest to eventually find justice for his mother.