She then quickly folded the note and threw it out of the locked iron gates of the apartment in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur where she was working as a live-in maid.

 

A woman passing by picked it up. Once she read it, she immediately took it to a retired police officer who lived in the same flats. "If she had stayed there, she surely would have died," he later said.

 

That same day, 20 December 2014, Malaysian police knocked on the door of the apartment where Meriance lived. She hadn"t left it in eight months.

 

"I felt like I was falling," she says, recalling the moment when she saw the officers. "They said, "Don"t be afraid, we are here". At that moment I felt strong again. I felt like I could breathe again. The officers called me closer and I told them the truth." ยูฟ่าไทยแลน