GEORGE TOWN, April 7 -- It has been more than six months since Rina Minda Sari survived being hit repeatedly on her head with a hammer but the trauma and pain remained.

The 47-year-old housewife said she still occasionally felt throbbing on her head where she was hit even after the wounds have healed.

"I constantly live in fear now and I am still traumatised from the incident," she told reporters in a press conference called by Jelutong MP RSN Rayer.

She said the neighbour who attacked her was charged but is now out on bail while his family has continued to live in the house next to them.

According to her police report on the incident, she had heard sounds coming from upstairs of her home in Taman Tenggiri in Seberang Jaya at about 10...