SINGAPORE — A 15-year-old lady killed her grandfather in a Bukit Batok flat for causes unknown, earlier than taking her personal life by leaping from a close-by block in June 2022. A coroner’s courtroom labelled the demise of 84-year-old Teo An Nee as “an illegal killing” on Wednesday (29 November).
Coroner Christopher Goh stated that, moreover {the teenager}, it appeared that nobody else was concerned in Teo’s demise, as he was discovered with not less than seven stab wounds on his torso in a flat at Block 363 Bukit Batok Avenue 31 on 23 June final 12 months, and was later pronounced lifeless by paramedics.
His granddaughter, Ellis Teo, was found on a grass patch a number of blocks away that very same day. She had gone to the twenty fifth storey of Block 115 Bukit Batok West Avenue 6 and jumped to her demise.
The investigating officer (IO), Sergeant Quek Jun Cai, advised the courtroom the police couldn’t decide what occurred between the pair shortly earlier than the tragedy, as Teo and Ellis have been the one ones within the flat. Her mother and father weren’t dwelling, and there was no closed-circuit tv footage captured contained in the unit.
Teen’s diary entries discovered no sick intention in direction of grandfather
The IO stated that Ellis’ diary was found and, primarily based on her entries, she didn’t reveal any sick intention in direction of her grandfather. Nonetheless, the youngsters wrote that she had confronted difficulties when she tried to show Teo learn how to use his cellphone, as she was not proficient in Chinese language.
Ellis had additionally acknowledged in her diary entries that she was lonely and had needed to take her personal life. She wrote that she had psychological well being points, however there have been no official medical reviews that she had them. Whereas her associates knew of solutions that she had needed to kill herself, her mother and father weren’t conscious of this and didn’t suspect that there was something unsuitable, stated the investigation officer.
The courtroom additionally heard that Ellis, who was famous to be a quiet lady by each household and associates, didn’t like loud sounds.
An unnamed relative had advised investigators that she may have been “triggered” by the ringtone of the aged man’s cellphone. Nonetheless, police discovered that there have been no messages, cellphone calls nor alarms set throughout the time period when the killing occurred.
Referred to as mom earlier than taking personal life
On the day of the tragedy, Ellis didn’t go away her flat earlier than killing her grandfather. Digicam footage on the block confirmed that Teo got here dwelling at round 2.30pm, and Ellis left the premises shortly after 5pm, with a plaster on her left hand.
There have been no indicators of a break-in, and the footprints and DNA discovered on the scene on the time belonged solely to the 2 of them.
After leaving the flat, Ellis known as her mom, saying she didn’t want to go dwelling and that she had accomplished one thing that may make her mum offended. She took her personal life quickly after.
At across the similar time, her mom returned dwelling and located that the household canine had a bloodstained mouth. The mom discovered Teo mendacity face up in the main bedroom, lined in blood, with a knife close to him.
She known as her husband, who alerted the police, and paramedics pronounced the aged man lifeless on the scene. Ellis’ shirt, which was stained with Teo’s blood, was present in a pail within the flat.
The members of the family weren’t in courtroom on Wednesday, and had persistently maintained that that they had little interest in attending the coroner’s inquiry.
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