Man accused of brutally assaulting mum surrenders

The Star, Friday May 31, 2013

By AUSTIN CAMOENS
austin@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: The man accused of causing the death of his mother in an argument over the
use of an air-conditioning unit at his house in Semenyih has turned himself in.

Kajang deputy OCPD Supt Azman Ayob said the man surrendered at the Kajang police station at
around 7pm on Wednesday.

“We have remanded the man, in his 40s, for six days to facilitate further investigations,” he said.

It was reported that the man's mother, Liew Kim Tee, in her 60s, was brutally assaulted on May 24
by her son following an argument over the use of the air-conditioning.

Her husband, who declined to be named, had claimed at the time that although Liew and her son
lived in the same house in Semenyih, they had a strained relationship.

Her jobless son would always ask for money from her and this often led to quarrels, he claimed,
adding that the man came home drunk at midnight and scolded his mother over the air-conditioning.

It is learnt that Liew lost her temper and caned her son, who retaliated by pushing his mother to the floor and hitting her.

Liew managed to crawl back into her room and telephoned her daughter to take her to the hospital.

She died two days later of multiple blunt force trauma.

Her husband had said that Liew vowed to come back to haunt her son.

During Liew's funeral on Wednesday, her daughter Chai Hee Yoon, 40, said her brother had told a friend that he would rather commit suicide than surrender to the police.

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.