Xue Juanyue / Reporter
David’s friend testified that the deceased had trouble with final-year project and had become irregular for church service prior to his death.
MR Edwin Lesmana, a close friend of David Widjaja, the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student who had allegedly stabbed a lecturer and later fallen to his death, told the court on Thursday about his last contacts with Widjaja.
Lesmana, 22, said that David told him late last year that his final year project (FYP) was ‘troublesome and hard’.
The fourth-year student from the School of Computer Engineering also said that Widjaja had attended church during time in NTU and took part in The Navigators, a campus Christian society.
One week before Widjaja had died, Lesmana and two other friends visited Widjaja’s hall as they believed he might have problems for he had stopped attending church regularly.
When Lesmana found that Widjaja was not in, he called Widjaja to ask if he could visit him next week. Widjaja said “no problem”, and that was the last thing Edwin heard from him.
Earlier in the day, forensic scientist Lim Chin Chin presented the crime scene reconstruction report.
Lim, from the Forensic Chemistry and Physics Laboratory of the Health Sciences Authority, concluded that David probably died from wounds sustained during the fall, and that the wounds on his right limb are not fatal.
Lim also did not exclude the possibility that the multiple wounds on David’s right limb, probably sustained during a struggle, were not self-inflicted.
The family of David Widjaja has left Singapore for Indonesia this afternoon. It is not clear whether they will return, but William Wijaja, the deceased’s elder brother might attend the inquiry next week.
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There is a need to know just exactly who his academic supervisor of his FYP is.
His ways, his style, his personality, his approach to students etc.
If i am his academic supervisor I would all I can to help him to grow intellectually as he has a terrefic academic track record.
Maybe and I suspect that his supervisor was jealous of his brilliance.
I had supervised FYP in Malaysia and the bumi students makes me want to vomit.
They write in Malay but the books are in English.
So what do you get – rojak.
And as I am a Chinese I was supposed to put my heart and soul to help the bumis.
This is not really a matter of IQ. It is more on EQ…
How much does he expect from just a year of research on a new topic???
What kinds of wounds sustained during the fall that were so serious enough to have cause death instantly?
Did the fall break his neck to cause instant death?
Did the fall severed his spinal cord to cause instant death?
Did the fall damaged his brain so much that it caused instant death?
Did the fall break his rib and it pierced through his heart to cause instant death?
What kinds of injuries could have caused Widjaja’s death instantly?
Did the Inquiry asked all these questions to iron our all doubts?
I don’t think a twenty-something commits suicide just because his FYP was difficult.
4) Detailed Elaboration of Injuries Required
Hey give the family a break. How do you think they will feel reading your post?
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