A highly decomposed body was discovered in a flat at block 148 Woodlands Street 13.
Police were alerted about the find at about ten this morning.
Saifulbahri Ismail who was at the scene with this report :
Even though police described the body as 'highly decomposed', there wasn't any acute smell of death.
Neighbours 938LIVE spoke to didn't sense that something was amiss.
Mr Mazlan Mohd Noor lives next to the unit in which the body was found.
The 43 year old despatch rider said he didn't hear or see anything out of the ordinary.
He said the person who lived in the unit was a Chinese man in his late 40s.
But he last saw him in October.
They've been neighbours for some five years, but Mr Mazlan never knew his name.
He describes him as a friendly person :
"I always call my neighbour uncle. I think this uncle is very good, never give us problem. (He) takes care of the neighbours here also. (He) looks out for us when we go out to work, or (when) our family goes out, to take care of our house. I think he's a nice guy."
He recalled some of the things they had conversations about.
"Always talk about job, living expenses like job, money very hard now. About that only. So far, he never tell me about (his) difficulties, only tells me about the PUB bills, they (HDB) cut off already. He say 'cannot pay', 'can't afford to pay'."
According to Mr Mazlan, the Housing and Development Board has been trying to find his neighbour due to his mortgage arrears.
Officers from the Board had also previously asked Mr Mazlan about his neighbour's whereabouts.
A few days ago, the HDB told Mr Mazlan they were going to break open and repossess his neighbour's flat.
Mr Mazlan was informed so as not to cause any alarm to his family.
This morning, HBD officers came to the flat and entered the unit which was shrouded in darkness.
The officers then knocked on Mr Mazlan's home to ask if they could borrow a torch light.
That's when Mr Mazlan believed they found the decomposed body.
Police have classified the case as unnatural death and is currently investigating.
--938Live
last seen in oct..
wahhh, tats many mths sia..
goodness.....
Vote FOR PAP
ANd ur GRANDFATHER WILL 1 DAY END UP LIKE HIM!
Vote for the opposition so that they will have a bigger voice next time. Otherwise, PAP will get more complacent, more smug, more ruthless and less unfeeling.
poor thing, R.I.P.
since october? oh my.
Originally posted by nightzip:Yes, all these show that HDB has indirectly killed a man!
These hard-handling people, and the government…....
HDB should have given him an alternative rather than force him to his death…..like providing him with alternate solutions getting him on government subsidy or what…..HDB…......really brings bad light on them.
Throwing straws at the HDB.
PAP? Pui And Pui!
they can install those vending electricity type de... u put coin then electricity...
ps i dunno wad its called
i heard before but not in operation yet right?
Its like a vending machine for buying electricity.
Lame...
Singapore is such a safe country.... as long as u dont pay your bill, you no need to worry that yr body would not be found if you died in yr house.
Send the respect to him
woah. since october. that's like 7 months?