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SCMP Reporter

HONG KONG citizen Daniel Chan Chi-pun, 38, will be executed by Singapore authorities early on Friday for drug offences after a plea for clemency was rejected.

  His wife and their six-year-old son left for Singapore's Changi prison yesterday.

  The wife, identified only as Mrs Chan, told the South China Morning Post she believed her husband was dealing in heroin because he needed money to try to find a cure for their son's blindness.

  The British High Commission said it was notified of the execution last week, following the rejection of Chan's plea for clemency to Singapore President Ong Teng Cheong. The British Government also had submitted a plea on behalf of Chan.

  Colin Lane, of the British High Commission in Singapore, said Chan appeared 'resigned' but 'was smiling' when he visited him last month.

   A Christian volunteer who recently visited Chan said religion had helped him cope with prison life at Changi.

 'I can feel his change. He gave me a feeling that he was at peace with himself. I think he will have enough courage to face death,' the volunteer said.

  'He has shown concern about other people, including his fellow inmates and his family. He has been answering questions about religion sent to him by other inmates.'   Arrested at Singapore's Changi airport for importing 464 grams of heroin in 1990, Chan had an appeal rejected by the Court of Appeal last year.

  His mother hanged herself soon after the arrest of her only son.

  Chan's wife said last week he had held little hope of being spared the gallows.

  Mrs Chan said that her husband knew his mother had died, although the family had kept from him the cause of her death.

  She said she was speaking up now to help their son.

  She said she was hoping eye doctors would come forward, and that somehow a cure could be found.

  'I will be happy if my son can only see shades of light,' Mrs Chan said through the tears.

  'He is all I have now.

  'If something happens to me, if I am struck by some terminal disease, nobody else will be able to take care of him.

  'The only choice left for me is to take him with me if something bad happens to me.'   Three Hong Kong women and one other man are also on Changi's death row. The women are Poon Yuen-chung, 21, Tong Ching-man, 22, and Elke Tsang Kai-mong, 26. The man is Lam Cheuk-wang, 23.

    Portuguese national Angel Mou Pui-peng, 25, is also awaiting execution in Changi prison.



Singapore to hang territory citizen after clemency plea fails