By Carolyn Quek

SIX years ago, two-year-old Leon Poh's mother and older sister were killed by their Indonesian maid, who also set fire to their office in Bukit Merah to destroy the evidence of her crime.

Leon, who is now eight, became an orphan last Friday after his father, Mr Drake Poh, 50, died of kidney failure.

In May 2002, the boy escaped the stabbing and the subsequent fire which killed his mother Angie Ng, then 34, and his older sister Crystal, aged three.

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