Lover’s tiff ends by a nylon rope; man leaps off 12th floor
KUCHING: A car wash employee hanged himself to death after a quarrel with his girlfriend yesterday. He just started work two weeks ago.
Tony Blairs Cirfew, 21, from Kampung Moyan Ledang, Asajaya was found dead at the end of a nylon rope fastened to a wooden frame in a rented house at Taman Bong Chin, Rock Road.
His mother who was at the morgue with his girlfriend said she heard that Tony was drinking with some friends on Thursday night.
A colleague who went to answer the call of nature at 4.30am was shocked to find Tony dead. He was the one who called the police.
His girlfriend denied quarrelling with him but police found in Tony’s handphone some text messages from her which might have made him depressed.
On CCTV, they saw Tony going to the front of the car wash about 2am to look for ropes.
Kuching police chief, ACP Awang Din Awang Gani, confirmed Tony’s death and said the police are waiting for a post-
mortem on the body to be done.
He said their initial investigation revealed no foul play.
In another fatal incident, a man was seen leaping to his death from an apartment in Tanjong Kidurong, Bintulu.
An eyewitness claimed to have seen the man jumping from the 12th floor of the apartment at Jalan Tanjong Kidurong on Thursday.
The eyewitness said he rushed over to see the lifeless body of the man on the pavement.
The victim whose identity and personal details were unavailable at press time was pronounced dead by medical personnel of the Bintulu Hospital called to the scene.
The body has been taken to Bintulu Hospital for a post-mortem. Bintulu police chief Supt Zulkipli Suhaili said a team of police officers was mobilised to the scene after receiving a
distress call at 3.44pm.
“Initial investigation revealed that there was no foul play,” he said, adding that the case has been classified as sudden death.
