GEORGE TOWN: Lee Chai Song, the wife of Lim Chin Aik, who is presumed dead after a lightning arrestor fell from atop the Menara Umno and struck his car during a freak storm in June, broke down in inquest proceedings which began this morning.
Lee, 48, who was the first witness to take the stand in the inquest to ascertain Chin Aik's death, shed tears as she testified on how her husband never brought their 13-year-old daughter home on June 13 after leaving their house to fetch her from school in Pulau Tikus.
"He did not bring our daughter home. A school teacher dropped her home," Lee said in between sobs.
After composing herself, inquest proceedings resume and she told the court that her daughter reached home at 9.30pm.
Lee also told the court that her daughter had called home twice to inform her that Chin Aik had not arrived, to which the former said to the latter to just wait, as the bad weather could be delaying her father.
"When she called me the second time, she told me the same thing, that her father had not arrived. It was then I became worried. I didn't know if something happened to him.
"Later, I heard that something happened on Jalan Macalister. Then, I did not think it was possible for it to have happened to my husband.
"I was just thinking, maybe he was stuck in a traffic jam," she said.
Counsels Gobind Singh Deo and Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor held watching briefs for Chin Aik's family and building owner JKP Sdn Bhd respectively.
Deputy Public Prosecutors Suhaimi Ibrahim and Lim Cheah Yit assisted the court in the proceedings.
- New Straits Times
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