Deadfall: The tree that fell where Rouch-Sirech and wife were seated at the Botanical Gardens in this file picture. — The Straits Times/ANN
THE husband of a woman who was killed in February 2017 after a 40m-tall tembusu tree at the Singapore Botanic Gardens fell and hit her has accused the National Parks Board (NParks) of negligence and is seeking damages.
Jerome Rouch-Sirech, 43, is seeking damages for the loss and bereavement suffered by his family as she was a means of support for him and their twin children, now aged four. He is suing as co-administrator of and on behalf of the dependants of his dead wife Radhika Angara, court documents show.
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