Free Cold Blooded Murders by Alex Josey Page A

1963. “We were on very
friendly terms. I took her home frequently from her bar.”
    To questions by his counsel on how the
question of insurance cropped up, Ang said that Jenny had of her own accord
asked him to describe the various types of policies available from the Great
Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited. This led to her submitting a proposal
form.
    Ang said he first went out skin-diving with
her a few days after meeting her early in 1963. “She could float around and
that was about all. Subsequently she learnt to swim. She became a reasonably
good swimmer,” he said, before they went scuba-diving. “She made amazing
progress.”
    On the second day of the defence (the ninth
day of the trial), Mr Coomaraswamy asked Ang how his mother, Madam Yeo Bee Neo,
came to be named beneficiary in the policies.
    Sunny Ang: Jenny had wanted to make me
the beneficiary, but I suggested my mother instead.
    His Lordship: Why?
    Sunny Ang: For a few reasons.
    His Lordship: Let’s have them.
    Sunny Ang: One of them is that this
form would have to pass through Mr Sidney Kong (divisional manager of the Great
Eastern and a friend of Ang), and I was afraid he would tease me about it if my
name were on the form as a beneficiary. I was in the habit of having my other
properties in my mother’s name.
    His Lordship: What do your other
properties consist of?
    Sunny Ang: I have a car.
    His Lordship: In your mother’s name?
    Sunny Ang: Yes, and the financial
aspect of the poultry farm is also in my mother’s name. Also a few shares.
    His Lordship: Also shares?
    Sunny Ang: Yes.
    His Lordship: Is that because you are a
bankrupt?
    Sunny Ang: Yes, my Lord.
     
    After giving his version of how Jenny came
to take out the insurance policies, Sunny Ang told defence counsel about the
car accident. He then went on to give evidence about scuba-diving with Jenny.
He said that before 27 August 1963, he had definitely been out ‘at least’ once
with her on a scuba-diving expedition in the Pulau Dua Straits. This was on a
Sunday—two days before her disappearance. He said the boatman was Yusuf. (Yusuf
on oath denied this.)
    Sunny Ang: Both Jenny and I dived. We
saw some good coral specimens. We went down two or three times, a total of an hour.
I took the trouble of roughly marking up that spot with the aid of the visual
eye in relation to trees and other points of the two islands.
     
    He said that on the morning of 27 August, he
went to the offices of the American International Underwriters to extend a
policy, a personal accident policy on Jenny.
     
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Why did you extend
Jenny’s policy?
    Sunny Ang: Because we might have to
drive back the car from Seremban, if it was ready, and the prospect of having
to do that made her insist upon extending the policy.
    His Lordship: Why not leave her behind?
    Sunny Ang: Well, if the car was ready,
we would look around. We would go to Malacca and then back to Singapore. I just
wanted to take her along with me—that’s all.
    His Lordship: I want to be fair: I
thought you told us she disliked to be driven at all after the accident at
Seremban?
    Sunny Ang: I insisted on taking her
along.
     
    He told Mr Coomaraswamy that “we intended
that afternoon to collect the coral we had seen the previous Sunday at Pulau
Dua. We intended to go diving at high tide.”
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Why did you fix high
tide?
    Sunny Ang: Because, from experience,
there was little or no current at beaches I have been to at high tide. On the
Sunday I went with Jenny there was a slight current.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Where did you anchor?
    Sunny ang: We took the trouble to be
over the spot where we were over the previous Sunday, according to the land
marks I mentioned just now. The water was calm.
     
    Ang said that he helped Jenny with her
equipment. She put on the green flippers.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: You then released the
air supply to the regulator? You turned it on?
    Sunny Ang: I turned on the tap on the
tank.
    Mr Coomaraswamy: Why