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</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>He had turned hysterical on seeing favourite child lying at foot of block </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Sujin Thomas
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A FATHER-AND-SON pair fell to their deaths in Telok Blangah within two hours of each other late over the weekend.
The first fall at about 11pm on Saturday involved the son, Mr Selvaraja Suppiah, 26, who worked part-time as a construction foreman and a cook.
Just minutes before, he had locked his family in their ninth-floor flat in Block 33, Telok Blangah Way, using a padlock.
His uncle, Mr Muthiah Nadeson, 47, told The Straits Times that his nephew had been arguing with his mother.
Details are sketchy, but Mr Nadeson said he believed his nephew had wanted to go out against his 52-year-old mother's wishes.
The young man's father, Mr Nadeson Suppiah, 55, a witness to the exchange between mother and son, even smirked as the argument did not appear serious, Mr Nadeson added.
After the young man padlocked the three-room flat from the outside and left, the family had to call the Singapore Civil Defence Force for help.
Once they were freed, they went to the foot of the block, where Mr Suppiah became hysterical upon seeing his son's body on a grass verge.
He and his wife also have a pair of 22-year-old twins, but Selvaraja was his favourite child.
About two hours later, as Mr Suppiah was being escorted back by family members to his flat, he made a dash out of the lift when it stopped on the 10th floor.
His body was found at the foot of the block, about 15m from where his son's body still lay.
Mr Nadeson said father and son were very close and even resembled each other.
'They were more like friends to each other,' said the unemployed man.
Family friend Kuldip Singh, who lives in a neighbouring block, said the older Mr Suppiah had been the 'go-to man' of the family, and had in the past helped his own siblings appeal to Members of Parliament when their homes faced repossession.
His 95-year-old mother had not yet been told of the double deaths as of yesterday.
Mr Nadeson said: 'I don't know how to tell her. I don't think she will be able to take it. She loved both of them very much.'
Yesterday, offerings of a can of stout and a pair of oranges were seen at the two spots where the men landed.
Their funerals will be held at Mandai Crematorium this evening.
Police have classified their deaths as unnatural. [email protected]
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>He had turned hysterical on seeing favourite child lying at foot of block </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Sujin Thomas
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A FATHER-AND-SON pair fell to their deaths in Telok Blangah within two hours of each other late over the weekend.
The first fall at about 11pm on Saturday involved the son, Mr Selvaraja Suppiah, 26, who worked part-time as a construction foreman and a cook.
Just minutes before, he had locked his family in their ninth-floor flat in Block 33, Telok Blangah Way, using a padlock.
His uncle, Mr Muthiah Nadeson, 47, told The Straits Times that his nephew had been arguing with his mother.
Details are sketchy, but Mr Nadeson said he believed his nephew had wanted to go out against his 52-year-old mother's wishes.
The young man's father, Mr Nadeson Suppiah, 55, a witness to the exchange between mother and son, even smirked as the argument did not appear serious, Mr Nadeson added.
After the young man padlocked the three-room flat from the outside and left, the family had to call the Singapore Civil Defence Force for help.
Once they were freed, they went to the foot of the block, where Mr Suppiah became hysterical upon seeing his son's body on a grass verge.
He and his wife also have a pair of 22-year-old twins, but Selvaraja was his favourite child.
About two hours later, as Mr Suppiah was being escorted back by family members to his flat, he made a dash out of the lift when it stopped on the 10th floor.
His body was found at the foot of the block, about 15m from where his son's body still lay.
Mr Nadeson said father and son were very close and even resembled each other.
'They were more like friends to each other,' said the unemployed man.
Family friend Kuldip Singh, who lives in a neighbouring block, said the older Mr Suppiah had been the 'go-to man' of the family, and had in the past helped his own siblings appeal to Members of Parliament when their homes faced repossession.
His 95-year-old mother had not yet been told of the double deaths as of yesterday.
Mr Nadeson said: 'I don't know how to tell her. I don't think she will be able to take it. She loved both of them very much.'
Yesterday, offerings of a can of stout and a pair of oranges were seen at the two spots where the men landed.
Their funerals will be held at Mandai Crematorium this evening.
Police have classified their deaths as unnatural. [email protected]
