Maid who abused dog until death: Authorities consider whether to bring charges against others involved in case

HE CATCHED THE DOG AND TIED HIM TO THE BALCONY

The boyboy belonged to Heng’s boyfriend, a 43-year-old man named Lai. Lai and his previous girlfriend Yap adopted the dog after finding him on Rochor Road in January 2015.

Lai kept the dog after breaking up with Yap in 2018. After he started a relationship with Heng, the two agreed to keep the poodle at Heng’s house.

Lai installed a camera with a motion sensor on the balcony where the dog was sleeping.

The maid was caught on camera hitting the poodle and tying it to a balcony railing on January 22. It later emerged that the maid had acted on Heng’s instructions.

In one incident of abuse caught on Junny Lal’s camera, Awn Pui pinned a dog to the ground and hit it with her hand, then hit the dog hard on the head with a stick.

Court documents say Heng instructed the maid to beat the dog if it started eating without warning. The rod was made by Heng, a company that rolls pet food packaging.

The maid was also seen hanging Boyboy about a foot off the ground by a harness hanging from the balcony railing. This was also in line with Heng’s instructions to “expose him to the sun, ostensibly to reduce (the poodle’s) odor.”

The video shows that the poodle was limp while tied to the railing.

Court documents say that shortly afterward, the maid struck the poodle twice with a rod, causing it to “scream in pain.”

The dog was later tied on a short leash in direct sunlight on the balcony. He lay motionless, only trembling and twitching from time to time.

That afternoon, Heng instructed the maid to check on Boyboy. The maid found the dog biting its tongue and bleeding from its mouth. She informed her employer and they both discovered that the dog had died.

Junny Lal Awn Pui then picked up Boyboy and threw his body to one side of the balcony.

Later that day, Heng contacted Mandai Pet Sanctuary to arrange for the dog’s remains to be collected for cremation.

The body was taken to Mandai and placed in a refrigerator after Heng told the driver to hold off on cremation as she wanted to inform Lai first.

Heng drove herself and her maid to Lai’s house around 5 p.m. He returned home around 10 p.m. and they celebrated Lai’s birthday before Heng told Lai that Boyboy had died.

The next day, the dog was cremated in Mandai. Lai noticed that the dog’s limbs were straight. He became suspicious and watched CCTV footage.

Boyboy’s belongings, including a bowl, soap, brush, towel and toy bone, rod, as well as a CCTV camera, were removed by Heng on January 24, two days after the violence.