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Malay Mail (Used by permission)
by Teoh El Sen
• Mont Kiara maid back with employer
‘Sorry’ ends it
I AM SORRY: Jack Ho (right), boyfriend of the late Jacqueline Foo (left), met
her parents at the police station. Police still classify the case as sudden
death.
"I AM sorry." These were the remorseful words of the man at the centre of the
controversial and tragic death of 21-year-old college student Jacqueline
Beatrice Foo following her ill-fated attempt last week to climb down nine floors
from her family's apartment using only a raffea string.
Jack Ho, 34, her boyfriend, had been accused by Jacqueline's family of "playing
a major role" in her death. The lovers had been seeing each other for around six
months.
Speaking to Malay Mail yesterday, Ho said his days were filled with
regret every time he recalled the incident.  Jack Ho He said he was "shocked" when he read about the claims by Foo's family that he
was an "Internet predator" who had befriended more than 25 young girls via
social networking website Friendster and chatted up young girls with different
e-mails.
"I have never dated anyone else in my Friendster account with the exception of
my late girlfriend," said Ho, adding that in his whole life he had had fewer
than 10 girlfriends.
Ho, a widower with two young children, is currently jobless but looking for
employment. The Klang resident admitted that he was sacked from his job as a
sales marketer with an import export company about the time the tragedy made the
news. Yesterday, he met Jacqueline's parents for the first time at the
Brickfields police station. In the past, Ho would only meet Jacqueline in
secret.
He said he "made some clarification with the parents" and that the situation was
more amicable now after they knew more about him.
"I began to understand some things about them," he said, explaining that he was
unaware of how adamant they were about her "aborting" his baby, which he
believed Jacqueline was having, and for her to stay away from him.
"She never told me. She always gave me a different impression of her parents,"
he said, adding that at the meeting, the parents had scolded him for being
"stupid" and they also "blamed their daughter for not allowing me to introduce
myself to them". When asked why he had persuaded her to use a raffea string to
climb down the building, he replied "I really did not know" and "she told me it
was safe". He admitted to frequently regretting the episode.
Ho also denied Jacqueline's parents' earlier claims that he had mounting debs
with loan sharks and that he "only picked on girls from wealthy families".
Meanwhile, a close friend of Ho, Alvy Lee, defended him and said he was certain
that Ho was not a "predator".
He said that Ho had briefly considered lodging a report on defamation of
character, but had decided to let the matter go.
Lee said he was the one who had introduced Ho to Jacqueline.
"Jack and I were having dinner and I was talking to Jacqueline on the phone at
the time. She asked if she could say hello to Jack. I passed the phone to Jack
and they talked for about five minutes; and that was when they started
communicating," he said.
Jacqueline's father, Jimmy Sioe Hok, said that he considered the case over and
done with and "there is no use talking about it anymore." "The guy is already
sorry. He told us that he felt sorry for what he had done," he said, adding that
the maid, whom the family had questioned on her alleged role in planning their
daughter's escape, was "okay now", and that she was to be brought back home.
In earlier reports, questions had been raised on what prompted Jacqualine's
ill-fated attempt. It was alleged that she had done so after her parents had
threatened to ship her off to Indonesia if she persisted in seeing Ho. It was
alleged that the family, who were in the process of converting their Australian
permanent resident status to Malaysian PR, had threatened to withdraw her
application. It was also reported that, after Jacqueline had run away from home
a few times, her parents were forced to lock her in the bedroom to prevent a
repeat incident. However, on July 16, she nevertheless attempted to escape by
scaling down the wall with a raffea string but lost her footing and fell.
It was alleged that, on the night of her death, Ho was waiting for her near the
apartment in his car. However, when she failed to show up, he left, assuming
that she had changed her mind about escaping.
Mont Kiara maid back with employer
POLICE yesterday released the Indonesian maid detained for her alleged
involvement in the death plunge of Jacqueline Foo at Mont Kiara last week.
It is learnt that the family has taken the maid home and does
not plan to cancel her work permit. She has been with the family for 10 years.
"After taking down her statement, we found that there has been no foul play or
criminal intention in this case.
This case is still classified as sudden death, " said Brickfields district
police chief ACP Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid, yesterday.
Wan Abdul Bari added that it was normal procedure to question witnesses in such
cases, especially if there was a possibility that they had knowledge of the
events. The maid, he said, is not a suspect.
He said police also recorded statements from neighbours as well as Foo's
boyfriend, Jack Ho.
Based on the statements gathered, the case was a "clear cut accident for us", he added.
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Men should learn how not to act immorally and propagate SIN, otherwise they would have to live to REGRETS their whole life through - as punishment caused upon themselves by themselves, and bringing grieve to others.
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