A 14-YEAR-OLD autistic boy fell 12 floors to his death while trying to dodge the police who had been trailing him from a coffeeshop early one morning.

Yeo Wei Xiong was found dead at the ground floor of a block of flats at Ang Mo Kio Street 61 on July 30.

According to an investigation report, the unemployed teen with shoulder length hair had been seen hanging out alone at a nearby coffeeshop past midnight on July 30.

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