Thursday March 27, 2008
Booze binge kills woman within hours
FIRST, she downed an entire jug of beer. Then she knocked back a bottle of Cordon Bleu brandy – neat.
And she drank all 750ml of that brandy in half an hour, said the pub owner.
Within hours, Zhu Shaoyun, 31, a visitor from China, was dead from alcohol poisoning, a coroner's court heard.
A verdict of misadventure was recorded.
She was alone when she started her drinking binge at the Dong Guan Entertainment Group Pub in North Bridge Road at 5pm last Nov 12. But after she drank a S$26 (RM60) jug of beer, four friends – three Singaporean men and a China woman – joined her.
She drank a few glasses of hard liquor before starting on the S$310 (RM716) bottle of brandy.
Martin Tenu, 45, the owner of the pub, which closed down this month, said Zhu's friends and his employees repeatedly urged her to stop drinking, but she insisted: “I can still drink. Don't bother about me.”
By 8pm, she was very drunk, said the investigation report into her death.
Tenu said by then she had thrown up in the toilet and was slumped on a sofa.
He added that her friends wanted to stay on at the pub, so they asked if a pub employee could take Zhu home.
Waiter Ng Wei Guang, 25, agreed to do it. She was sick again before boarding a cab and threw up yet again during the journey.
By the time they arrived at Geylang Lorong 8 where she said she was staying, Ng found her foaming at the mouth and nose, looking pale and not breathing.
He told the taxi driver to head for Raffles Hospital, where she died at about 10.50pm. – The Straits Times / Asia News Network
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