Sisters’ deaths linked to vice

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Sisters’ deaths linked to vice

IPOH: Police have reclassified the death of two sisters, who were found hanged side-by-side from the ceiling of their home as murder or abetment to suicide.

The reclassification came just hours after their mother told reporters that the girls were being forced into prostitution.

Chong Kwai Chin, who is in her 50s, said yesterday she came to this conclusion from a note found on her elder daughter Tan Sook Mun, who was a credit card promoter.

Sad memories: Chong showing a picture album of her daughter Sook Mun. With her is Perak MCA Public Services and Complaints Bureau chief Tony Khoo.

Chong said she was informed that the note read: “They are forcing us to be prostitutes. We refuse to do so. This is the only way.”

The message was one of two pieces of paper found in the pocket of 21-year-old Sook Mun, who was found hanged beside her sister Sook Yin, 17, at Taman Klebang Jaya.

“I saw the first note, which only had a mobile phone number. I was later told that the number belonged to an Ah Long,” Chong said at her house in Kanthan, 25km from here.

Chong insists that someone had killed her daughters and that it was not suicide as believed by the police.

“My daughters have never been prostitutes. I cannot believe they committed suicide. They have always been outgoing and happy,” she said.

On an anonymous tip-off at 6.30pm on Saturday, police rushed to the girls’ house at Taman Klebang Jaya and found them hanged from a ceiling beam.

OCPD Asst Comm Jalaludin Ibrahim said the police had reclassified the case from the initial classification of sudden death.

He confirmed that a note written in Chinese was found in Sook Mun’s pocket.

“We are processing the note to determine if it was written by the deceased,” he said.