By Elena Chong

A HEATED and prolonged quarrel a young couple had in June ended hours later with the girl's fatal fall from an HDB block in Bedok North.

At a coroner's inquiry on Wednesday into the death of Ms Candice Goh Hui Yi, 17, allegations that her boyfriend pushed her off the ledge of a staircase landing came up.

Whether Mr Low Chen Sheng, 21, did so remained unclear at the end of the hearing, at which a police investigator from the Bedok Police Division testified.

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