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The rental flat that the late Mr Heng, 70, shared with a roommate. Police have arrested a 57-year-old man in connection with his death. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING
THE rag-and-bone man who died following a brawl over a mug of beer in People's Park this week was known among his neighbours for his eccentricities and drinking habit.
Mr Heng Teck Hong, 70, made a little money selling recyclables he collected; he also got welfare handouts and $200 a month from his niece, said his roommate of 10 years, Mr Goh Ah Seng, a 60-year-old cleaner.
'Ah Heng was a man who just did whatever he felt like doing and lived by the day. He did not have a schedule, only that he had to have his ABC Stout every day,' said Mr Goh.
Mr Heng's needs were simple, he said. Lunch and dinner were packaged meals from the Thye Hwa Kwan Moral Society - delivered daily.
What little money he had went into beer and cigarettes at the People's Park food centre.
It was there that he apparently took a swig of beer from someone else's mug on Tuesday, for which witnesses said he was punched.
It is believed he fell and injured his head.
Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police have arrested a 57- year-old man in connection with Mr Heng's death.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
The food centre where the crime took place. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING
AN ODD-JOB worker was charged on Thursday with the murder of a 70-year-old man at People's Park Complex Food Centre earlier in the week.
Lee Beng Chuan, 57, allegedly caused the death of Mr Heng Teck Hong at the food centre in New Market Road between 7.45pm and 8.21pm on Tuesday Jan 11.
Mr Heng was apparently punched after taking a swig of beer at the food centre.
Known by his neighbours in Chin Swee Road as the 'Spiderman uncle', he was reported in 2008 to have insisted on climbing in and out of his one-room flat via the staircase landing, as he often lost his keys.
Lee, who was arrested at Petir Road on Wednesday, was remanded for a week at Central police station for investigation.
If convicted of murder, he faces the mandatory death penalty.
