Debt-ridden dad in S’pore kills son and himself
inSing.com - 29 November 2012 7:45 PM | Updated 10:42 PM
A 55-year-old man killed his 19-year-old son in a hotel room before jumping off a block of flats in Marsiling Drive.
Channel NewsAsia reported that a coroner's inquiry today found that Shariffuddin Abdul Kader strangled his son with a raffia string in a room in Copthorne Orchid Hotel on 25 September 2010.
The businessman, who had a wife and a daughter, now 20, was saddled with a million-dollar debt. The court heard that he had never mentioned suicide or thoughts of taking his son's life, but his wife said he may have done so because he did not want to burden her with their son's high medical costs.
The son, Shah Amin, has global development delay, a form of disability that affected his mental and physical growth.
A close friend said Shariffudin's business was not doing well and that he could not pay his employees, Channel NewsAsia reported.
On the day of the double deaths, police found a suicide note on Shariffudin that led them to find his son in the hotel along Dunearn Road and it stated that he had killed the boy.
Investigations showed that there were neck injuries on the boy but no signs of violence or struggle.
After leaving the hotel, the father had driven to block 35 Marsiling Drive and leapt off from between the 12th and 13th floors of the block of flats. He was found at around 5.30am.
inSing.com - 29 November 2012 7:45 PM | Updated 10:42 PM
A 55-year-old man killed his 19-year-old son in a hotel room before jumping off a block of flats in Marsiling Drive.
Channel NewsAsia reported that a coroner's inquiry today found that Shariffuddin Abdul Kader strangled his son with a raffia string in a room in Copthorne Orchid Hotel on 25 September 2010.
The businessman, who had a wife and a daughter, now 20, was saddled with a million-dollar debt. The court heard that he had never mentioned suicide or thoughts of taking his son's life, but his wife said he may have done so because he did not want to burden her with their son's high medical costs.
The son, Shah Amin, has global development delay, a form of disability that affected his mental and physical growth.
A close friend said Shariffudin's business was not doing well and that he could not pay his employees, Channel NewsAsia reported.
On the day of the double deaths, police found a suicide note on Shariffudin that led them to find his son in the hotel along Dunearn Road and it stated that he had killed the boy.
Investigations showed that there were neck injuries on the boy but no signs of violence or struggle.
After leaving the hotel, the father had driven to block 35 Marsiling Drive and leapt off from between the 12th and 13th floors of the block of flats. He was found at around 5.30am.
