By kaifong | SingaporeScene – 1 hour 18 minutes ago
A tiff with her boyfriend over a pair of chopsticks might have
been what cost a woman her life two years ago.
The High Court heard on Monday that Tan Teck Soon, then 19, had
thought his girlfriend, Chong Kar Yin, wanted to break up with him,
and agitated he pushed her off a twelfth floor.
He jumped to follow her in death, but he survived the plunge
instead, reported AsiaOne.
Tan, a welder, met then 20-year-old Chong, a waitress, through a
friend. Both Malaysians worked in Singapore. The couple got
together after a month's acquaintance and had been dating for five
months before tragedy struck.
On 6 March 2009, at about 11:30pm, the couple met at the hawker
centre beside the Bedok bus interchange. Chong ordered a bowl of
fishball noodles and later asked Tan to get an extra pair of
chopsticks, which he refused. Chong became unhappy and refused to
talk to Tan, relenting only when he tried to pacify her by feeding
her a fishball.
However, Chong was kept busy with her mobile phone throughout
the meal, incurring Tan's ire.
The couple's chat on their way home to the girl's place at Block
565 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 degenerated into a quarrel. When they
reached the twelfth floor, Chong told Tan that they would never be
able to change their tempers.
Tan took this to mean that she was trying to end their
relationship, and decided to die with her. He pushed her over the
parapet.
Seeing that she was dead, Tan then ran towards the parapet and
flung himself over it. His fall was broken by some metal
scaffolding that had been erected as part of the lift upgrading
works and he survived.
Tan, who yesterday pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, will be
sentenced on Friday.
- Yahoo! News Sg
