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5-year-old found dead in D'Leedon condo

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A five-year-old boy was found dead in D’Leedon condominium unit on Tuesday morning (6 October), and police have classified the case as unnatural death.

His father, 42, will be charged in court with murder on Wednesday.

Policemen on duty found the boy’s injured father outside the Bukit Timah Neighbourhood Police Centre at 5:11am. He was sent to the hospital.

After preliminary inquiries, the police went to the unit in D’Leedon, believed to be on the 32nd floor of Block 3.

In the unit, they found the body of the boy lying motionless in the bedroom. He was pronounced dead by paramedics at 6:17am.