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 HoHe 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. It's a sad ending for Jac's life, nobody will ever know if its true love or just .....
May her soul rest in peace!
Any parents would have stop their 21-years-old daugther from having a relationship with a 34-years-old jobless widower with 2 kids!
The Man should has know better...
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