BUTTERWORTH - Remains of a Malaysian student Rebecca Melissa Edward who died in England some 17 days ago due to illness will be brought home after it was released by a hospital there.
Rebecca, 22, who died of meningitis four weeks after arriving in England to pursue her studies will be flown home after an anxious two week wait by her family members.
Rebecca’s father, Rev Edward M.John who is currently in Newcastle, England heaved a sigh of relief.
He said the hospital authorities and the coroner-in-charge had released his daughter's remains.
"We hope to arrive in Kuala Lumpur next Wednesday and to hold my daughter's funeral shortly," he said.
John said the undertakers would arrange her remains to be flown home next Tuesday.
Rebecca's funeral service mass will be held next Friday at St.James Church, Jalan Ipoh around 11am.
The deceased's mother, Selvi Kaur was heartbroken and declined to speak to the press while her brother Jeffrey Elvin, 25, is expected to come back to Malaysia by this week.
Rebecca, who was a law student of Brickfields Asia College in Kuala Lumpur, had told her parents on Sept 29 that she had been vomiting and experiencing fever.
She consulted a doctor at Royal Victoria Infirmary but was later discharged with only fever tablets before her housemates found her unconscious and stopped breathing. -NST
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