The victim’s body was found hanging from the house’s wooden beam.
KUCHING: The lifeless body of a 25-year-old man identified as Augustine Brayan Giles was found in a house at RPR Batu Kawa here in an apparent suicide on Saturday night.
The grim discovery was made by the victim’s brother, who arrived home at around 8.30pm and was shocked to see his younger brother’s body hanging from the wooden house’s beam.
“The victim was confirmed dead by paramedics from the Sarawak General Hospital who were called to the scene. No other injuries were found on his body, which eliminates foul play,” said Padawan district police chief Supt Aidil Bolhassan who confirmed the case today.
No suicide note was found at the scene.
According to the father of the victim, Augustine had not been talking much in the past two to three days prior to the suicide.
He added that Augustine would normally perform some odd jobs together with some friends from the neighbourhood.
The father also revealed that both of his sons do not have identification cards as their birth certificates were kept by his ex-wife.
Both brothers moved together with their father to Kuching in 2009 and the family was originally from Rumah Dee Kerpok Lingga, Sri Aman.
The body was later sent to the hospital’s morgue for a postmortem.