KAJANG: The man accused of causing the death of his mother when he
repeatedly hit her at their home allegedly told a friend that he would
rather commit suicide than surrender to the police.
“The friend told us that he spoke to my brother briefly and he had
advised him to surrender to the police as the news was all over the
media and it would be difficult to be on the run,” the suspect’s sister
Chai Hee Yoon, 40, said at her home in Semenyih New Village, near here,
after the mother’s funeral yesterday.
“But my brother said he did not want to surrender himself and, instead, wished to commit suicide.”
Hee Yoon, the second of six siblings, added that her sisters and
their uncle had repeatedly tried calling the 41-year-old suspect, but
his phone was always switched off.
In the meantime, she said her siblings
felt it was best to sell off the house where their mother Liew Kim Tee, in her 60s, was brutally assaulted.
Another sister Chai Hee Yen, in her 30s, said she was still in shock over the incident.
“Our family had hoped to see our eldest brother at the funeral, but I
suppose he was either too ashamed to face us or feared he would be
arrested,” she said.
The police have classified the case as
murder. At press time, the suspect is still at large.
On Friday, he allegedly became furious with Liew over the
air-conditioning in their house after returning home drunk at around
midnight.
Liew reportedly lost her temper and caned him with a stick. The
jobless man retaliated by pushing his mother to the ground before
repeatedly hitting her.
A daughter, who rushed to the house after receiving a distress call
from the victim, took Liew to the Kajang Hospital. The elderly woman was
later transferred to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital where she slipped into a
coma before succumbing to her injuries on Sunday.
Her son has since fled their home.
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