MELAKA: The 14-year-old boy who is suspected of choking his nine-year-old younger brother to death at their home in Bukit Piatu yesterday is said to have experienced a change in attitude after becoming a victim of bullying at the boarding school where he was studying.
The boy's father said his eldest son's behaviour and attitude began to change after he was bullied by seniors at the Arabic boarding school in Alor Gajah where he studies.
He claims that his son has been bullied since he was in form one but he kept quiet about it up until it carried on to this year and it got worse up until he began complaining to the two of them.
"He called his mother quite frequently but initially I thought that it was normal for children who study in boarding school up until he had injury marks and scars, and this is when we lodged a complaint with the school authorities and made a police report.
"He had complained that he was bullied by two seniors at school where he was choked while he was sleeping, splashed with water and also kicked apart from being beaten up," said the 42-year-old man.
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According to the father of four, following the change in his attitude, the boy had choked him and his wife before.
"I fetched him from school and not long after arriving back home he suddenly screamed shouting out 'Subhanallah' with his eyes wide open before he suddenly choked me, and at that time he did so with the strength of an adult.
"Because of his change in attitude, we allowed him to study at home for the time being and at the same time, my wife and I can also took him for treatment," he said.
He said at the time of the incident, he was in Terengganu for work while his wife was also out working.
In an attempt to avoid anything untoward from happening, they monitored the children through CCTV (Closed Circuit Television Cameras) which allows them to monitor what their children are doing through their mobile phones.
"Before the incident, I did call to find out if they had eaten or not, and he was his usual, normal self and said that he had already eaten.
"We never imagined that what we worried about and feared the most would happen when we saw on CCTV that he suddenly choked his younger brother who was on the sofa at the time," he said.
