After the will was signed, it was left with Ooi. Two days later, Ang was back again at Braddell Brothers with a letter, signed by Jenny, authorizing Ooi to give him the will.
On 13 August, three days after Jenny had made her will, Sunny Ang borrowed Sidney Kong’s car, ostensibly to take Jenny for a fortnight’s tour of Malaya. They arrived in Kuala Lumpur the same day. They booked in at the Kowloon Hotel at about 6:30 PM in the evening. The very next morning, Ang called at the Insurance Company of North America, and obtained forms for a travel accident insurance policy. He filled in the form for Jenny, and asked if he could also sign it on her behalf. He was told he could not. So he took the form away and brought it back a quarter of an hour later, signed by Jenny. It was an accident insurance policy on Jenny’s life for $100,000. Ang told the insurance representative, Tan Kim Heng, that he wanted the policy for two weeks, as Jenny and he and a group of friends intended to go from Kuala Lumpur to the Cameron Highlands. The policy was due to expire on 28 August 1963 at 11:00 AM. Ang paid the premium of $48.50. Jenny’s estate was given as the beneficiary. Ang also took out a policy on himself for $30,000 for a fortnight. The premium was $14.50.
About noon, almost immediately upon his return to the hotel with the insurance policies, Sunny Ang and Jenny checked out of the Kowloon Hotel, and, instead of heading northwards to continue their tour of Malaya, they turned south and headed back for Singapore, but did not actually leave Kuala Lumpur until about 5:00 PM. Within two hours it would be dark. Near Rembau, some 12.5 miles from Seremban, driving along an unlit road, Ang braked hard to avoid a dog on the road. Jenny was thrown forward against the windscreen. Ang veered left and crashed into an embankment. The nearside of the car, the side where Jenny sat, was very badly damaged. Jenny was bruised on her body and face. “From the damage to the car, and from her injuries, it would appear that Jenny had a close brush with death. Ang came out of the accident apparently unscathed. They returned to Singapore by train. The car was left where it was, and was subsequently towed to the Lian Seng Hackney Motor Workshop at Seremban.”
“This incident,” said counsel, “standing on its own, probably would excite little or no comment. But looking at it against the background of the facts which we now have, you may agree it assumes a somewhat sinister significance. Was it a brazen attempt to kill Jenny under the guise of a road accident?”
In Singapore, Ang gave Jenny $1 to see a doctor about her injuries. Mr Seow said it was inconceivable that Ang should think that the services of a doctor could be obtained for such a paltry sum. Jenny’s sister Eileen had to give her $10, and Jenny’s mother, ‘who had been cut off from her will without so much as a cent’, brought her to see a doctor to have her injuries examined. “Is it not a strange commentary on Ang’s attitude towards Jenny, a strange commentary on Ang’s so-called love for Jenny?”
Mr Seow said that on 16 August, Ang and Sidney Kong went to Seremban and saw the manager of the Lian Seng Hackney Motor Company. The manager told them that the car would not be ready for the road for a month. In fact it was not ready for two months.
On 25 August, Ang’s American International personal travel accident policy for $10,000 lapsed. He did not renew it. Jenny’s policy for $150,000 lapsed at 7:00 AM the next morning. On 27 August at 11:00 AM, Ang called at the American Insurance office to extend Jenny’s lapsed policy for another five days. Ang paid the premium of $48. Jenny’s policy with the Insurance Company of North America was due to expire the next day. “If anything was to happen, if any accident was to happen,” said Mr Seow, “I suggest in the very nature of things it must happen within the next 24 hours.” The tragic climax was not far off.
During the afternoon of 26 August, Ang brought three air-tanks to the Singapore Oxygen Company’s place in Bukit Timah Road, and left them there to be charged with air. Later in the day he returned to collect them.
On 27 August, the fateful day, Sunny Ang took Jenny scuba-diving off Pulau Dua. This was a Tuesday, a working day. Pulau Dua are two little islands separated by a straits, about 700 feet apart. The straits varies in depth between 30–35 feet. The islands are about four miles from Jardine Steps in Singapore Harbour, and they are among the southernmost islands of the Southern Islands, beyond which stretches the open sea, with Indonesia in the distance.
Mr Seow quoted Captain Vernon Bailey, of the Singapore Marine Department as saying that the waters around the Sisters Islands were extremely hazardous. They were dangerous because of the remarkable eddies and swirls which occur there, and the speed of the current around the islands varies with the state of the tides from half a knot to some four knots.
Ang, that Tuesday afternoon, hired a boat from Jardine Steps and directed the boatman, Yusuf bin Ahmad, to go to Pulau Dua. They arrived there about 3:30 PM, about three minutes before high tide. Ang told the boatman to drop anchor at a spot in the straits. Ang then dropped what is known as a ‘shot’ rope, to which was attached a piece of weight, into the sea, and told Jenny to go down first.
“I think,” said counsel, “it is necessary at this stage for me to say something about Jenny’s scuba-diving prowess. The word ‘scuba’ stands for ‘self-contained underwater breathing apparatus’. This consists of a tank into which air is compressed under very high pressure, and a breathing assembly which consists of a demand valve regulator, a mouthpiece with two tubes, one for inhaling air from the tank and the other for exhaling used air into the water. The regulator controls the flow of air from the tank as and when demanded by the diver. When not in demand the regulator shuts itself off so that the air from the tank is not unnecessarily wasted.” Mr Seow went into detail about how the tank is carried on the back of the diver by means of harnesses which, in the interests of safety, have a quick release buckle, or device. There were certain other accessories which completed the scuba-diver’s equipment: the mask which enables the diver to see underwater; the swim-fins or nippers, which give him speed and manoeuvrability; lastly, the weight belt which is an important item of a scuba-diver’s equipment. The average person is naturally buoyant, and therefore, to counteract this buoyancy he has to wear a weight belt. The amount of weight varied according to the natural buoyancy of the diver, but usually it was not more than five pounds. The weight belt must have a quick release so that in an emergency the diver could release it without difficulty. “We know that until Jenny met Sunny Ang she could not swim. He taught her to swim, and to skin-dive with scuba equipment. The prosecution, however, submits that in the very short time that Ang had known Jenny she could not have acquired a sufficient knowledge of her scuba equipment, nor could she have reached that degree of proficiency in scuba-diving which made it safe for her to dive in such a place as the straits between the Sisters Islands.”
Without emotion, counsel went on to describe Jenny’s last hours alive. In the boat, he said, Jenny wore: · a one-piece, tri-coloured (black, white, orange vertical stripes) bathing costume; · a pair of green Walter web-feet nippers; · a black Espadon face mask; · an improvised Scout belt with two weights tied to it, weighing two and a half pounds each; · a sheath knife; · a small axe in a leather case, which also held the knife, fixed to her Scout belt; · a Sealion 40 cubic feet tank, blue in colour, to which was attached a Sealion breathing assembly.