By Alvina Soh | Posted: 02 December 2011 1702 hrs
SINGAPORE: One was a
37-year-old Briton, who jumped off the rooftop of Fullerton Bay Hotel
into the waters around Marina Bay in a drunken state.
The other
was a local delivery man, believed to have been in a troubled mental
state days before he was found dead in the waters off Harbourfront Walk
in front of VivoCity.
At two separate hearings on Friday, State
Coroner Kessler Soh ruled that they shared the same tragic fate - both
drowned and there was no foul play suspected in their deaths.
William
Hart, a Briton who headed the sales department at an international
bank, died after falling nearly seven storeys from the rooftop of the
hotel where he went drinking with a friend on April 7.
Hart, who
had several glasses of wine, was also shown in his friend's video
recording on that day saying he wanted to jump from the rooftop and that
he could "make the jump".
The 1.8m-tall man, who had a reputation of jumping into swimming pools or water bodies from heights, then proceeded to do so.
A
toxicology report by Mr Leong Hsiao Tung, a Health Sciences Authority
(HSA) analyst, revealed that there were high levels of ethanol in Hart's
blood, indicating that he was clearly intoxicated and that his
judgment was impaired.
Mr Hart's father and stepmother, who
turned up in court on Friday, said they were "very saddened and were
still coming to terms".
In the other case, 38-year-old Mr Radin Bahrom Radin Muhammad Din drowned at the sea near VivoCity.
Two weeks before his death on July 1, family members said he had been behaving strangely, claiming to have "heard voices".
On that particular day, Mr Radin also behaved abnormally and had a fight at his workplace at Prima Tower at Keppel Road.
He attacked two security officers.
Around midnight, witnesses saw Mr Radin jumping into the sea, where the tide was 2.7-metre high.
A
HSA toxicology report revealed that there was a higher than normal
level of Dextromethophan, a drug found in cough syrup, in his blood that
can cause confusion, hallucinations and impair judgment.
The State Coroner also noted that Mr Radin was unable to swim and that this may have affected his actions.
- CNA
looks like one ang mo was overpaid in his salary to be a clown...and the other asian was struggling with security in his job.