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Lovers' tiff over a pair of chopsticks ends in tragedy
By Kimberly Spykerman
Ms Chong Kar Yan's mother (above, in yellow) and older brother, together with other relatives, at the Supreme Court yesterday. Tan Teck Soon's family was also present in court. --ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
THE quarrel over a pair of chopsticks started in a Bedok hawker centre and continued up to the 12th floor of a block of flats in Ang Mo Kio.
It ended with the man pushing his girlfriend to her death, while he himself was injured after he jumped from the parapet.
Yesterday, welder Tan Teck Soon, 21, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide in causing the death of coffee shop assistant Chong Kar Yan, 20.
He was to have been tried for murder but the charge was reduced. He now faces up to a maximum of life imprisonment.
The court heard that the couple, both Malaysians, were introduced in 2008 by a mutual friend. On the night of the incident in March 2009, they and their friend had met at a hawker centre next to Bedok bus interchange at around 11.30pm.
Shortly after, a quarrel broke out between the couple over a pair of chopsticks. Ms Chong had asked Tan to get an additional pair after she ordered a bowl of fishball noodles, but he refused to do so.
She became unhappy and did not want to talk to him. She later relented after he fed her a fishball, but appeared distracted throughout the meal, answering calls on her cellphone and sending text messages.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
By Kai Fong | SingaporeScene – Tue, Apr 12, 2011 2:30 PM SGT
A tiff over chopsticks might have caused a man to kill his girlfriend two years ago. (Getty Images)
A tiff with her boyfriend over a pair of chopsticks might have been what cost a woman her life two years ago.
The High Court heard on Monday that Tan Teck Soon, then 19, had thought his girlfriend, Chong Kar Yin, wanted to break up with him. He then became agitated and pushed her off a twelfth floor.
He jumped to follow her in death, but survived the plunge instead, reported AsiaOne.
Tan, a welder, met then 20-year-old Chong, a waitress, through a friend. Both Malaysians worked in Singapore. The couple got together after a month's acquaintance and had been dating for five months before tragedy struck.
On 6 March 2009, at about 11:30pm, the couple met at the hawker centre beside the Bedok bus interchange.
Chong ordered a bowl of fishball noodles and later asked Tan to get an extra pair of chopsticks, which he refused.
Chong became unhappy and refused to talk to Tan, relenting only when he tried to pacify her by feeding her a fishball.
However, Chong was kept busy with her mobile phone throughout the meal, incurring Tan's ire.
The couple's chat on their way home to the girl's place at Block 565 in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 degenerated into a quarrel. When they reached the twelfth floor, Chong told Tan that they would never be able to change their tempers.
Tan took this to mean that she was trying to end their relationship, and decided to die with her. He pushed her over the parapet.
Seeing that she was dead, Tan then ran towards the parapet and flung himself over it. His fall was broken by some metal scaffolding that had been erected as part of the lift upgrading works and he survived.
Tan, who yesterday pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, will be sentenced on Friday.
Lover's death fall: Man jailed for 14 years
He pushed her over, survived suicide bid
By Kimberly Spykerman
Ms Chong Kar Yan's body covered by a police tent at the foot of a housing block in Ang Mo Kio on March 7, 2009 (above). Her boyfriend Tan Teck Soon had pushed her over the parapet from the 12th storey as he thought she was about to leave him. Tan then decided to die with her but his fall was broken by some metal scaffolding. The couple had quarrelled earlier over his refusal to get her another pair of chopsticks. -- PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CHONG FAMILY, SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
THE last time the mother heard from her daughter Chong Kar Yan, the 20-year-old was on her way home with her boyfriend - a man whom her mother had not approved of.
Ms Chong had told her mother over the phone not to worry and that she would be back soon.
Slightly more than an hour after that conversation, the Malaysian, who worked as a coffee shop assistant, was dead.
She had fallen from the 12th storey of a housing block in Ang Mo Kio on March 7, 2009, after she was pushed by her Malaysian boyfriend who also jumped after her.
Yesterday, welder Tan Teck Soon, 21, who survived the fall with a fractured collar bone and some abrasions, was jailed for 14 years for culpable homicide. The sentence was backdated to March 7, 2009 when he was arrested.
He could have been jailed for life.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
