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SINGAPORE: After a day of hearing into David Hartanto Widjaja's gaming world, including his online "wife", the last piece of information presented on Monday gave a glimpse of what the inquiry into his death will delve into when it closes on Tuesday.
Dr Christopher Syn, a senior forensic scientist with the Health Sciences Authority, told the Coroner's Court that DNA tests of the evidence collected from the scene showed that David's blood and that of his final-year project supervisor Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk were both found on the blade of the knife used in a struggle between the two.
The handle, however, was stained with only David's blood and only the student's blood was found on one of the six chairs in Assoc Prof Chan's office.
It was not ascertained which chair this was.
Last week, Assoc Prof Chan said that he was seated when David attacked him from behind after turning up unexpectedly in his office in Nanyang Technological University.
The 21-year-old Indonesian, a final-year electrical and electronic engineering student, was said to have assaulted the professor with the 18-cm long knife before falling to his death on campus on March 2.
Mdm Juliana Amir, a cleaner at the NTU residence hall where David stayed, testified on the stand yesterday that the knife belonged to the hall's pantry, which students are free to access.
During cross examination, she told the Widjaja family lawyer, Mr Shashi Nathan, that she recognised it from the handle when the police showed her the alleged weapon on the day of the attack.
Before this, the court heard more details about the life of David Widjaja, a loner who often spent hours on the computer.
His "online wife", 18-year-old Chua Jia Yu, gave an insight into David's cybergaming world when she said that the two had "married" after a brief courtship online.
She was unaware of any personal problems of his, she said, as their conversations often revolved around gaming.
The pair, who met in a gaming chat room last November, had never met but exchanged regular SMSes and messages through the gaming site.
Ms Chua also told the court that she had seen David's picture on his Facebook profile.
The deceased, who was single, had expressed interest in becoming her real-life boyfriend, but Ms Chua did not reply to his advances because she "was 'married' to another player" online.
Another witness, NTU student Lin Zhenxing also produced a shaky eight-second clip caught on his handphone camera showing a person - supposedly David Widjaja - sitting at the link bridge rooftop at NTU.
Mr Lin stopped recording in order to call for help, but David fell to his death before he could end the call.
After the court session ended, David's brother, William, told TODAY that the person shown in the footage could not have been David.
"I'm his brother, and I know how he looks like," said the 24-year-old consultant.
"I don't know how the video is relevant; it just shows a person sitting on the ledge".
In all, 10 witnesses took the stand on Monday. -TODAY/vm
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