17th October 2019 – (Hong Kong) The 15-year-old teenage girl, Chan Yin Lam who was found dead in the sea in Yow Tong created huge controversy among the locals and many have speculated that she was murdered. Her death was suspected to be linked to police brutality as she was an activist before she passed away.

In an exclusive interview with TVB today, she showed a copy of the birth certificate belonging to Chan Yin Lam to the TV host and expressed that her daughter committed suicide and she was not murdered as speculated. She has been following up with the police closely after her daughter’s death. After watching all the CCTV footage recently, she realised that her daughter’s behaviour was awkward. She remembered her daughter told her before that she suffered from psychosis. There was a man’s voice talking to her in her mind resulting in constant insomnia. She reflected her experience to her doctor but she was told that she did not suffer from mental issues.

In August, Chan visited her boyfriend at Tong Fuk Correctional Institution and she suffered from mental breakdown after she left. She refused to settle the taxi fare and assaulted a female police officer who arrived to mediate the situation. She was then sentenced to be confined in the Youth detention center. With regards to her participation in anti-extradition protests, Chan’s mother admitted that she took part in some street rallies in June but she stopped going in July after the protests turned violent.

She condemned netizens for creating conspiracy theories on social media and she hopes that the matter will be laid to rest soon. She pleads to everyone to let her daughter rest in peace.

Meanwhile, students of Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) held an assembly today to mourn their classmate Chan Yin-Lam, whose body was found floating in the sea off Yau Tong earlier.

Vocational Training Council (VTC) declared that all the footage they have released so far are real to quash online rumours that they were doctored. VTC also urges a coroner’s inquest to be held as soon as possible for clarifying the truth behind the death of Chan.