Murdered woman found in cement block at friend's garden

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Brunei police are probing the death of a Malaysian woman found encased in a block of cement in her friend's garden, in the latest violent death to shock the sleepy sultanate.

Voon Su Ching, 39, was reported missing by her husband on February 13 after she did not return home from an errand to buy their son's birthday cake.

Police found her body five days later at the home of a friend, who had asked her to check on the property while she went travelling over the Chinese New Year holidays.

Royal Brunei Police Force spokesman Pengiran Abdul Salam Ghani said an autopsy had been completed and police were awaiting the post mortem examination report to establish the cause of death.

"The body of the victim has been returned to the family and will be repatriated back to Malaysia," he told AFP on Friday.

Abdul Salam denied reports in the Malaysian media that a suspect had been detained. He declined to comment further on the investigation.

Voon, who hails from Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo, which borders Brunei, ran a car wash business in the sultanate and lived with her husband and son.

Malaysian newspaper The Star reported that Voon's body had been found after the owner discovered a three-metre high block of cement in her garden, with a stench coming from it.