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Convinced that he didn’t kill himself, the family of David Hartanto Widjaja has hired veteran criminal lawyer Shashi Nathan to look after their interests.

Mr Nathan, who heads Harry Elias Partnership’s crime practice department, will hold a watching brief at the coroner’s inquiry into the Indonesian student’s death.

Widjaja, 21, a final-year student in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), died after falling four storeys on campus on 2 Mar, after allegedly stabbing Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk.

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Prison programme prevents repeat crimes by those likely to re-offend
By Teh Joo Lin & Kimberly Spykerman

BALA Kuppusamy, now 48, was first jailed in 1987 for rape and other offences. He was out five years later, but within 45 days, he was back at it.

During his second, much-longer jail term, he was put through a treatment programme designed for sex convicts likely to re-offend.

But he committed sexual assault after his second release in March last year – and this time, he held out for just 41 days.

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