Former prisoner Khong Yen Chong, who once earned an unlikely place in the Guinness Book of Records for a mural he painted on the walls of Pudu Prison - now long demolished - passed away on Feb 20 at the age of 78.

In a saddening turn, the man once tied to a piece of living history spent his final days in obscurity, with his body left unclaimed at the Penang Hospital morgue for 50 days.

An NGO was finally...