Man housebound due to fear of son’s debts


Left in the lurch: Khoo (centre) showing the police report he recently lodged. Looking on are Ng (right) and special officer to the Iskandar Puteri MP J. Kartiyaini.

JOHOR BARU: A taxi driver is now afraid to leave his house even for medical follow-ups after he came home from a 10-month hospital stay recently to find no one at home but a trail of debts supposedly left behind by his son.

The 63-year-old, who only wanted to be known as Khoo, went home after undergoing treatments and a surgery involving his large intestine in October last year.

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