Poor but generous trishaw rider Uncle Beng leaves a legacy of love

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PETALING JAYA: Uncle Beng, the injured and homeless trishaw rider the Malaysian online community saved from a painful end with its donations has died.

Fiercely independent, he had a history of absconding from care homes for the elderly.

However, it now emerges that he spent the last months of his life in the Silver Jubilee Home for the Aged, reportedly relatively happily and without making any further breaks for freedom.

Uncle Beng came into the news in an FMT report in March 2020, when he was discovered, head wrapped in bandages, in his trishaw outside his favourite kopitiam, Lai Heng 88 Cafe near Komtar.

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