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DOUBLE DEATH TRAGEDY
1 LOCKED IN HORROR
He gets home late and drunk
Angered by mum's questions, he locks family in flat...
By Tay Shi'an
June 09, 2009
Raja flies into rage over mum's questions and grabs house key as father watches. Raja padlocks front gate of flat, leaving family inside. Freed from flat, Mr Suppiah looks down to see son's body and wants to follow after him. Relatives hold him back. All go to ground floor to view Raja's body. Mr Suppiah disappears. Then friends and relatives spot him on 10th storey. TNP ILLUSTRATION: KELVIN CHAN
IN LESS than 90 minutes on Saturday night, one family suffered the full range of anguish - from rage to horror, despair and shock.
In the end, the family was left to grieve for two lives - a son and his father - at Telok Blangah Way.
It began in rage when Mr Selvaraja Suppiah, 26, a security officer, became angered by his mother's questions.
'Why are you drinking so much?' she had asked, relatives told The New Paper. 'Where have you been? Why are you coming back late?'
The young man was tipsy from having attended a party. And although it was almost midnight, he wanted to head out again with his cousin, who was at their ninth-storey flat in Block 33.
He had just called his uncle - who lives with the cousin - to ask for permission for them to stay out late.
But Raja, as his family called him, lost his temper and started quarrelling with them.
Voices were raised, but no one expected the turn the night was about to take.
Incensed, Raja grabbed the house key, which was hanging by the door, and rushed out.
He padlocked the front gate outside the door, locking his parents, younger sister and cousin inside.
As his stunned family watched from inside the flat, Raja, the eldest of three children, climbed onto one of the many flowerpots the family kept along the corridor outside their three-room flat.
When they realised what he was about to do, his father, property agent Suppiah Nadeson, 55, and his mother, housewife Malliga Veerapan, in her 40s, both shouted: 'No! Stop! Stop!'
But it was too late.
They watched helplessly, locked in horror, as he leapt from the parapet, into the darkness below...
DOUBLE DEATH TRAGEDY
1 LOCKED IN HORROR
He gets home late and drunk
Angered by mum's questions, he locks family in flat...
By Tay Shi'an
June 09, 2009
Raja flies into rage over mum's questions and grabs house key as father watches. Raja padlocks front gate of flat, leaving family inside. Freed from flat, Mr Suppiah looks down to see son's body and wants to follow after him. Relatives hold him back. All go to ground floor to view Raja's body. Mr Suppiah disappears. Then friends and relatives spot him on 10th storey. TNP ILLUSTRATION: KELVIN CHAN
IN LESS than 90 minutes on Saturday night, one family suffered the full range of anguish - from rage to horror, despair and shock.
In the end, the family was left to grieve for two lives - a son and his father - at Telok Blangah Way.
It began in rage when Mr Selvaraja Suppiah, 26, a security officer, became angered by his mother's questions.
'Why are you drinking so much?' she had asked, relatives told The New Paper. 'Where have you been? Why are you coming back late?'
The young man was tipsy from having attended a party. And although it was almost midnight, he wanted to head out again with his cousin, who was at their ninth-storey flat in Block 33.
He had just called his uncle - who lives with the cousin - to ask for permission for them to stay out late.
But Raja, as his family called him, lost his temper and started quarrelling with them.
Voices were raised, but no one expected the turn the night was about to take.
Incensed, Raja grabbed the house key, which was hanging by the door, and rushed out.
He padlocked the front gate outside the door, locking his parents, younger sister and cousin inside.
As his stunned family watched from inside the flat, Raja, the eldest of three children, climbed onto one of the many flowerpots the family kept along the corridor outside their three-room flat.
When they realised what he was about to do, his father, property agent Suppiah Nadeson, 55, and his mother, housewife Malliga Veerapan, in her 40s, both shouted: 'No! Stop! Stop!'
But it was too late.
They watched helplessly, locked in horror, as he leapt from the parapet, into the darkness below...
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