Former IMH patient flings objects from flat, threatens suicide
Published on Apr 13, 2012
A crowd gathering outside an area cordoned off by police as a woman threw household items out of her eighth-storey flat in Hougang Avenue 5. Some of the objects landed on the grassy field in front of the block and around the anti-suicide air bag that was deployed directly below her unit. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
By Lim Yan Liang
A reclusive former patient at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) was led away by the police - while threatening suicide - from her flat on Thursday evening.
The drama began, eyewitnesses said, when the 61-year-old woman started flinging her personal belongings out of her eighth-storey flat shortly after 10am.
The items - underwear, compact discs and stacks of papers, among others - littered the grassy field in front of Block 327, Hougang Avenue 5, where she lived.
'She also threw her IC out of the window, which we've passed to the police,' said a witness, Ms Peggy Kee, 55, who operates a fruit stall at the void deck of the block.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
