Real-life fatal attraction

MARRIED with a four-year-old daughter, Neo Eng Tong had a brief affair with a former flight stewardess he met while collecting old items as a rag and bone man. 

During the affair, Constance Chee Cheong Hin, 36, lent him about S$40,000 (RM90,300) to start a business but he gambled it away. Also, she would stay overnight with him when his Thai wife and daughter were away in Bangkok. 

However, in July last year, Neo, 34, called off the affair. 

But Chee would not let him go, he said on Monday in the High Court, describing a series of events that many are likely to associate with the Hollywood movie Fatal Attraction. 

She would call him often on his cellphone and go uninvited to his second-floor flat in Block 1, Telok Blangah Crescent. 

“She would create a scene outside my flat when I refused to let her in. She would knock on the window, knock on the door and shout that she knew I was at home,” he said. 

She even wanted him to send his wife, Kittiduangrat Ketkanok, 34, back to Thailand, saying she would pay her the one-year income she was making as a hawker. 

Neo, speaking in Mandarin, made these disclosures at the start of an 11-day trial against Chee, who is accused of kidnapping and flinging Neo's daughter Sindee from a high floor of the block where the Neo family lived. Sindee died five days later. 

Chee now faces two charges: kidnapping and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. For kidnapping, she could be jailed up to 10 years and given an unspecified fine if found guilty. For homicide, the punishment is either life imprisonment or a jail term extending to 10 years. 

Neo told Justice V.K. Rajah that when he met Chee soon after Chinese New Year in February last year, she knew he was married with a child as his wife and daughter were with him when Chee sold him some used electrical appliances. 

Asked by the judge if his daughter and Chee knew each other well, Neo said “no”, adding that she was “frightened” of her. 

Earlier, in his opening address, Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Kok Weng said Chee had entered the Neos' unlocked flat at about 4.30am on Oct 7 and snatched Sindee from her parents' bedroom. – The Straits Times/ANN  

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