Mentally ill mother who jumped to death had a history of losing control of herself
Police had been sent to the Tin Shui Wai home of the family involved in Sunday's murder-suicide seven or eight times in the past three years when the mentally ill mother had lost control of herself. The revelation came yesterday as the welfare chief pledged to review welfare resources in Tin Shui Wai.
Mak Fuk-tai, 36, jumped to her death from her 24th-floor flat in Yiu Fung House, Tin Yiu Estate, at about 4am, minutes after her children, Chan Po-yee, 12, and Chan Tung-man, nine, were thrown to their deaths, their hands and feet bound.
A suicide note to Mak's husband - Chan Kai-lam, 47, a terminally ill cancer patient in Tuen Mun Hospital - said she was unhappy and stressed.
A police source said Mak had a record of suicide attempts in 2004 and her husband had called police seven or eight times in the past three years when his wife lost control.
The woman had calmed down before officers arrived and all the cases were classified as 'insane person found', a police source said.
