THE bridegroom who died hours after his wedding dinner was caught on the hotel's security camera making for the fire escape staircase on the floor of his suite.

Mr Vernon Leong, 31, was next seen scrambling through the Hilton Singapore's second floor, where there is a shopping arcade.

Mr Leong, co-owner of a shop in Sim Lim Square selling computer peripherals, fell to his death early Wednesday morning.

He had hosted his wedding dinner in the hotel's third-floor ballroom and adjourned with his bride and a company of friends to their 10th floor suite after 11pm.

But it seems that he left the suite at about 3am after the friends had left and his wife, Ms Kerin Peh, 27, was taking a shower. Eight minutes later, he lay face-up on the hotel driveway, dead from severe head and chest injuries.

Police said on Wednesday that he had fallen from a height, but it appears they have yet to resolve the mystery of how he fell or where he fell from.

Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.