Singapore’s first online suicide pact

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The deaths of two young women who met online were a 'carefully crafted double suicide', in which they had researched on methods of killing themselves on forums and expected newspapers to run headlines such as 'Singapore’s first online suicide pact' after their deaths.

Announcing his findings, State Coroner Imran Abdul Hamid noted that Ms Teo Wan Si, 19, and Ms Chua Hui Hsien, 23, had discussed committing suicide in e-mail exchanges.

It is not known when they met, but police investigations revealed they had been communicating since Jan 25 last year.

They met face to face two weeks later when they carried out their suicide plan. Their bodies were found by the police at 1am on Feb 9 last year in a chalet at Aloha Changi. A suicide note was left at the scene.

Ms Chua had lied to her father that she was still studying at a polytechnic although she had dropped out a year earlier.

Ms Teo’s mother, Madam Choong Shuk Ling, told the police her daughter had suffered stress over her studies and had seen a psychiatrist.

Once, her parents had a long talk with her after they learnt she was planning to kill herself.

On the day of the tragedy, Ms Teo lied to her mother she was attending a class reunion at the Costa Sands Pasir Ris chalet.

Hours later, Madam Choong found notes containing details on how to avoid being filmed by CCTV cameras.

Her parents went to Costa Sands Downtown East resort at 6pm to look for her.

They were unsuccessful and made a police report.