A domestic helper leapt to her death after her employer shouted that she was an incompetent cook, the Coroner's Court heard yesterday.
Grace Guinadan Coloma, 35, was found in the ground-floor fountain of a Mid-Levels building after jumping from a 12th-floor flat in the early hours of June 13.
Her employer, Lau Po-ying, a university professor, lay in bed unaware that her maid was being taken to Tang Shiu Kin hospital, where she was certified dead. The jury reached a verdict of suicide.
The maid's sister, Zenaida Mustard Guinadan, told the inquest Coloma had cried over the phone two days before she died.
'She told me her employer was always shouting at her and the food her employer gave her was not enough,' said the sister.
'She said she could be patient but could not tolerate her employer's shouting.' The employer also shouted 'use your head' when the maid asked how to do the cooking, the sister claimed.
