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The director of a funeral home was indicted yesterday in court for her alleged role in the death of her ex-boyfriend in May, during the breaker period.
Alverna Cher Sheue Pin, 38, was charged with one count of manslaughter that does not amount to murder.
According to court documents, Cher is charged with an act that caused the death of 32-year-old Wee Jun Xiang between 1:44 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. on May 16 in Deck 4B of a multi-story parking lot at Block 145A Bedok Reservoir. Road.
The court documents did not specify what he allegedly did.
Police said Wednesday they arrested Cher after being alerted to a case of unnatural death in the parking lot around 5:30 p.m. on May 16.
Yesterday, Cher, who appeared in court via video link, requested to make three phone calls.
She said she wanted to call her family, a friend to spend some money on her daughters, and another friend to find a lawyer for her.
She told the district judge that she is a single mother with two daughters, ages 13 and six. She is also the only source of income for her family. “Please, I just want to pass them money … It’s their livelihood, they don’t have (any) income,” he said, adding that his mother has a stroke. .
The police prosecutor objected to his requests because investigations were still ongoing, and the judge said the investigating officer will help notify his family and make the necessary arrangements.
Local Chinese media reported that the victim, Mr. Wee, also known as Sean, was a songwriter and had released a song in Mandarin titled “You Left” two months before his death.
He wrote the song after his grandmother died of liver cancer in 2017.
Wee also co-founded Zinnia Afternote, a website that stores users’ written wishes up to a specific time, and provides resources such as death-related articles.
Cher has appeared on various platforms giving interviews about her career as an entrepreneur.
She is the director of the City Funeral Singapore funeral home, which participated in the funeral of actor Aloysius Pang, who died last year after being seriously injured in a military accident.
Cher is also the founder of the CARE planner certification program, which trains people in matters such as writing wills and funeral planning.
In a February 2018 post by The Asian Entrepreneur, he said he started running a recruiting business in 2007.
When her business was discontinued, she became an education coach at MindChamps.
In a post on the Dayre blogging platform on May 12, Cher opened up about her previous romantic relationships and her journey as a single mother.
She divorced the father of her oldest daughter after the marriage began to unravel two months after the birth of her daughter.
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Four years after the divorce, Cher said she was in a relationship with the father of her second child, whom she dated for seven years.
But he was sentenced to prison shortly after she gave birth to her second daughter, leaving her to run her funeral business. She said she then went out of business and established City Funeral Singapore in 2015.
Cher was also among the three finalists for the Exemplary Young Mother Award in 2018, organized by Jamiyah Singapore to recognize young mothers who display outstanding traits in the face of adversity.
She will be in custody for a week and is expected to return to court next Thursday.
If convicted, she could face life in prison or be imprisoned for up to 20 years and fined.
She cannot be spanked because she is a woman.
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