2007 06: Lee run over by bus, son strangled in their home

The Star online. News. Nation. Saturday June 23, 2007

By M. SIVANANTHA SHARMA and CHRISTINA KOH

NIBONG TEBAL: A housewife, believed to have strangled her 11-year-old son earlier, was run over by an express bus after she left her car by the North-South Expressway near Kamunting, Taiping, and dashed across the highway.

Lee Kooi Im, 36, from Nibong Tebal, died in the accident at about 12.30pm.

She is said to have parked her Proton Wira by the roadside near the Kamunting toll plaza.

She left a note in Chinese in her kitchen to her husband, Loo Chye Cheang, with the words, “I will not disturb you anymore. May you live in peace.”

South Seberang Prai OCPD Supt Ahmad Nordin Jaafar said Lee was believed to have strangled her son Yoke Jie before leaving the house in her car.

He said the boy died at about 10.30am at her double-storey house at Lorong Murni 3, Taman Selesa, near here.

He said police did not rule out the possibility that Lee made a suicide dash towards the bus.

Loo, in his early 40s, who owns a car workshop, was at work here when he received a call about his wife’s accident and rushed to Taiping Hospital.

On reaching the hospital, Loo was informed by one of his workers that his elder son was found dead at home.

Supt Ahmad Nordin said his workers had sent his son to Parit Buntar Hospital but was pronounced dead.

The couple have another son, aged 13 months, who was at the babysitter’s house when the incident happened.

When met at the Taiping Hospital mortuary, Lee's sister Kooi Kim, 35, said the family was informed of Kooi Im’s death at about 12.45pm.

“A motorist who found an envelope with the workshop number in her Proton Wira called and informed her husband about her death,” she said. She and Loo then rushed from Nibong Tebal to claim Kooi Im’s body.

Earlier, Larut Matang and Selama acting OCPD Supt Syed Abdul Wahab Syed Abdul Majid said the bus driver had lodged a police report, claiming that Kooi Im had rushed out from her parked car and dashed across the highway.

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Boy died of suffocation, not strangulation
NST online. Newsbreak 23/6/07

BERNAMA

NIBONG TEBAL, Sat.:

The 11-year-old boy who died in an apparent murder-suicide here yesterday was suffocated to death by a soft object and not strangled, said Penang Hospital pathologist Datuk Dr Bhuvinder Singh.

However, he could not ascertain the time of death as the body was kept in a freezer at the hospital’s mortuary before the autopsy was carried out. “The marks on the neck probably were caused when he struggled to save himself,” he said when contacted here today. In the tragedy, the boy was believed to have been killed by his 37-year-old mother at their Taman Selesa home at about 10.30am. Less than an hour after allegedly killing her son, the mother lay dead at Km205.6 of the North-South Expressway after dashing into the path of an express bus.

Their bodies have been placed at the Nibong Tebal Chinese Funeral Parlour and will be kept there for five days before being buried at the Nibong Tebal Chinese Cemetery.