Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Brother shot dead by police, so sister drinks poison AND poisons her four kids! I couldn’t believe it at first when receive email from HRP. Who in their right mind would take suicide as an option. Yeah, you loved your brother. But to the extend want to murder own kids as well, so that they “can be with him”? Who’s going to answer the kids’ father? Is the lady being selfish? – she want her brother and also her kids, so kill them too?
If she survives, there would be an attempted murder case against her. Who is going to take care of the children? What happens to the marriage? All gone down the drain? These 4 kids end up as product of broken family? If not handled well, may produce 4 more criminals?
What made her contemplate suicide? Didn’t she know its a sin? Where is the counseling for family members of the dead? High time such a unit is set up to provide support for family members.
I don’t think her case should be used by HRP to make a point, it gives a wrong picture.
Unable to stand the grief of losing her youngest brother in a police shootout recently, a housewife and her four children consumed poison so that they could “all go and meet him.”
R. Seetha, 33, is said to have given her children drinks doused with weed-killer, before downing a glass of the deadly poison herself.
Seetha’s brother Surenthiran, 24, was one of the five suspected robbers and alleged member of the PCO Boy gang killed during a police shootout early Sunday morning.
According to Seetha’s sister Parvathy, one of their siblings Sumathi, three, had seen Seetha and her children drinking the deadly potion at about 8.30am at their parents home in Kg Berempat, in Kapar near here on Thursday.
“Sumathi grabbed the drinks from them and called for help to rush my sister to a clinic in Kapar before bringing them to the hospital,” said Parvathy, 28, at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital here where the family has been warded.
Seetha was still fighting for her life at the hospital’s emergency unit whilst two of her children — Darshini, nine, and Yugendran, five — were unconscious at the intensive care unit at press time.
According to hospital sources, Seetha’s condition was fast deteriorating as the weed-killer had severely damaged her internal organs.
Two other children Usha Rani, seven, and Navina, three, were warded at the children’s ward.
Seetha’s lorry driver husband M. Manimaran, 35, said his wife had told him Wednesday night that she wanted to see her brother and be with him.
“I didn’t take it seriously and am still unable to understand why she has done something like this,” said Manimaran, adding that Seetha was exceptionally close to Surenthiran.
Seetha is the third child whilst Surenthiran was the eighth sibling in a family of nine children.
Both Seetha and Manimaran and their children, who lived in Gemenceh, Negri Sembilan, had come to her parents home to attend Surenthiran’s funeral.
Seetha’s father R. Ramapathy, 61, said Seetha was not able to accept the manner in which her favourite brother had died.
There was a lot of talk at the funeral about how he was killed, and this visibly upset her, he added.
He said his wife R. Saraswathy, 54, was inconsolable and shattered over what had happened.
“We lost our eldest son in an accident not long ago, followed by Surenthiran’s shocking death and now we may lose Seetha and our grandchildren,” said Ramapathy who stood vigil outside the emergency unit.
Klang district police chief Asst Comm Mohamad Mat Yusop said police were investigating the case under attempted suicide.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Party chief P. Uthayakumar who was at the hospital said that in the event Seetha died, her remains would be brought to Parliament as a mark of protest against police shootings.
“The police should arrest suspects, charge them and send them to prison if found guilty instead of shooting them down,” he said.
