Fong (left) is accused of committing the offence between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
FOR years, Mr Chan Tin Sun felt unwell and could never pinpoint the cause until he landed in hospital in 2006.
It was then that the retiree learnt the unthinkable: He might have been eating poisoned food at home.
The 70-year-old former contractor on Wednesday described how he found out he was being poisoned, on the opening day of the trial of Fong Quay Sim, 67, his wife of over 30 years who is accused of causing him to consume arsenic.
Mr Chan said he had suspected for years that something was up with his food, as he had thrown up a few times after eating at home. He had asked his wife if the food was 'dirty' as far back as in 2003. She had said then she knew nothing about it.
Mr Chan said he became so ill in 2006 that he could not even move his limbs at one stage. It was while he was in Changi General Hospital that doctors told him that he had been poisoned. Police were alerted to the case in November that year after arsenic was found in Mr Chan's urine.
Testifying in Cantonese through an interpreter, he told Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong that he suspected his wife as they were the only ones living in their Jalan Ulu Siglap home at the time doctors said he was being poisoned.
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