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http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,111943,00.html

Brother-in-law persuades man to hand over samurai sword, realse children
HE was locked in his brother-in-law's flat. There were bloodstains on the floor, two frightened kids, including a toddler, a worried woman, and a very distressed man.
By Ng Tze Yong
20 August 2006
HE was locked in his brother-in-law's flat. There were bloodstains on the floor, two frightened kids, including a toddler, a worried woman, and a very distressed man.
Still, Mr Ng Tor Ching, 35, wasn't perturbed.
'I wasn't afraid because I know him very well,' he told The New Paper.
He was referring to his brother-in-law, Mr Teo Thiam Cai, 39.
The unemployed man had locked his wife, teenage son and toddler in their 14th floor Jelapang Road flat in Block 509, off Bukit Panjang Road, on Thursday night after a heated quarrel.
WAVED SWORD
Mr Teo, who is understood to be suffering from a mental illness, had shouted Hokkien obscenities, smashed the television screen and even waved a one-metre sword around at one point.
It needed the intervention of Mr Ng, who turned negotiator, to diffuse the tense situation.
Bit by bit, over seven excruciating hours, he comforted and persuaded Mr Teo as they sat on the floor of the four-room flat.
Over cigarettes and cups of tap water, the hardware store worker brought Mr Teo to tears several times, after he bundled his two nephews off into the relative safety of their bedroom with their PlayStation.
He succeeded. Just before 4am yesterday, Mr Teo finally unlocked the door and surrendered himself to the police, ending a drama that could have finished very differently.
The episode began around 7.30pm, when Mr Ng received a call from the elder of his nephews.
The boy told him in Mandarin: 'Uncle, come quickly. Daddy is in trouble.'
Mr Ng rushed over from his workplace immediately. When he arrived, he found the flat in a mess.
Mr Teo was sitting quietly in a corner of the living room, his back against the wall.
His 38-year-old wife and children were comforting him.
'He looked very sad and frustrated,' Mr Ng said.
There were bloodstains on the floor from a deep cut on Mr Teo's leg. No one else was hurt.
Still, as a safety precaution, Mr Ng told the elder nephew to take his younger brother into the bedroom to play video games.
Then, he sat down with Mr Teo and asked what his troubles were.
At about 8.45pm, a neighbour called the police.
When Mr Teo realised that, he panicked and padlocked the gate, just before the police arrived.
Thus began the standoff.
Tense rehearsal unfolds two floors below
AS the crowd followed the nail-biting drama on the 14th floor, another drama unfolded just after midnight.
Police officers continued to coax Mr Teo through the metal gates upstairs, while a team of policemen and SCDF members on the 12th floor started rehearsing for a possible forced entry into the flat.
The rehearsal began with a female police officer in mock conversation at the gate of the unit directly two storeys below Mr Teo's.
The occupants of that unit were out at the time.
Suddenly, she stepped back and made a swift cutting motion with her right arm.
Immediately, three policemen stationed in the the corridor on her left rushed towards the door.
When they reached it, the officer in front, holding a plexiglass shield, squatted down. The two officers behind him pretended to point pistols into the flat.
Simultaneously, a team of 10 SCDF members clad in dark blue fatigues and orange helmets rushed in from the other direction.
The lead man, who carried a power saw, pretended to break open the gate.
Meanwhile, SCDF members ran a cable extension up to the 14th storey, presumably for the power saw. Earlier, they had ran a water hose up there too.
Around 1am, after performing the rehearsal at least twice, the team took up position on the 14th storey.
For an hour and a half, the three policemen and the team of 21 SCDF members stood at the ready, out of sight of the occupants in the flat.
But nothing happened. At 2.35am, the SCDF team was given orders to stand down. The group of police officers at the gates continued to engage Mr Teo.
At 3.54am, just as suddenly as it had begun, the standoff ended.