The offender also sent similar letters to other people, including a church elder and the principals of three other schools, as he wanted them to know how his former boss had purportedly mismanaged issues linked to the student’s death.In earlier proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Zhi Hao said: “The accused prepared 20 similar anonymous letters.
“Each letter was enclosed in an official envelope from the National University of Singapore and contained a note with the following abusive words: ‘Heavy is the head which weareth the crown, eyes tainted with guilt, tongue defiled by lies, bloody are thy hands which are stained with a child’s blood’.”
The principal was named in each note, which also contained a “death threat”, giving the impression that he would die in 2021.On Feb 9, 2021, he left his Boon Keng flat and travelled to Sengkang, where he used a public phone to make an anonymous call to the principal.The principal later told a colleague about the call and found out that the school had received multiple anonymous letters. The principal then read one of them.DPP Tan said: “To the , the note read like an epitaph from a tombstone.
One of the messages said: “Your stint is testament that those who can’t do, teach. But, come to think of it, you can’t even teach, to save your life.”