Hugs and a family meal for Loh and children after ordeal

 

Loh Siew Hong having a word with her daughter at a family lunch in a Petaling Jaya restaurant after the High Court had ordered the release of the three children.

PETALING JAYA: Hugs, smiles and a family lunch Loh Siew Hong and her three children, reunited after three years by High Court order.

The court decision came as a huge relief, her lawyer Shamsher Singh Thind said. “Finally, after so much trouble, she is reunited with her children, which should have happen
ed earlier.

“She is happy and relieved, but it will take some time for them to get used to the situation because they were separated for three years. It is not a small matter.”

He said the entire ordeal had left Loh’s children physically exhausted. “They were taken from Kedah to Kuala Lumpur yesterday. (At the moment) they just want to go back and take a rest.”

Loh, who works as an assistant chef in Genting Highlands, intends to settle her family in the Klang Valley, and enrol her children in new schools, Shamsher said.

The family were reunited after the High Court granted Loh’s habeas corpus application for the return of her 14-year-old twin daughters and 10-year-old son.

High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah ordered the children’s immediate release and said the court order “should not be treated impunitively (defied), upon the pain of contempt of court”.

Loh had said last week that she had been separated from her children for three years after she had sought shelter from domestic abuse. Last year, she obtained a divorce from her husband and was granted full custody of the three children.

She filed the habeas corpus application last week after finding that her children had been left in the care of preacher Nazirah Nanthakumari Abdullah and had been converted to Islam without her knowledge. They were moved to a Welfare Department home pending the court application. - FMT