[CORRECTION on Friday at 12:30pm: We're sorry that we got this story wrong in a previous version of this article, which we've since edited. Janadas posted his comment on Lee Hsien Yang's Facebook page, on a post where he shared Wei Ling's photo. It still remains.]

On Friday morning, we saw a post from Lee Wei Ling that dragged a new player into the ongoing Lee saga.

It quoted a 2011 email from Janadas Devan, Chief of Singapore's government communications division, which appears to show, in no uncertain terms, that the late Lee Kuan Yew was clear in his intention to demolish the house on 38, Oxley Road.

Wei Ling has for some time had comments on her posts disabled, but her posts are shared by her brother Hsien Yang, so at about 9:45am, Janadas left a comment on the latter's Facebook share of the photo.

Here are screenshots of the comment he posted:

Which we've copied out here:

"Dear Wei Ling: Your latest post blares, tabloid-style, misleading information. Having edited you for many years, I know this is not your style.

The email you quote was written when I was Associate Editor of Straits Times, not Chief of Government Communications. And as you know well, I had met Mr Lee Kuan Yew with a few other journalists to discuss a book that he had proposed on 38 Oxley Rd.

When he met us in July 2011, he made plain that he wanted the house to be demolished. But as the months and years passed, the nature of the project changed as it became less definitive whether the house would be demolished – and if so, when.

For example, we were told that you will be staying in the house for as long as you live. Then I learnt plans to build a model of the interior of 38 Oxley Rd was dropped – because, I gathered, Mr Lee was considering plans to gut the interior of the house altogether to remove traces of the private space.

There was no doubt then or now that Mr Lee’s preference was to demolish the house. But as the shifting instructions we heard from the family in 2011-12 – including from you – indicated, the fate of the house had by no means been decided at that point.

I ceased to be involved in the Oxley Rd book project in July 2012, when I left ST. My personal view remains that Mr Lee’s wish to demolish 38 Oxley Rd should be granted the moment you are no longer living in it, which may be 20, 30 or more years in the future.

In the meantime, I am as baffled as most Singaporeans why Hsien Yang and you wish to consume all of us in your personal family matters.

Please: Think of Singapore, and forget the rest."

In summary, Janadas made the following points:

1) He sent Wei Ling that email when he was Associate Editor of The Straits Times, not as chief of government comms, a position he only took up around a year later.

2) LKY proposed a book project to be done on 38 Oxley Road, to be executed by Janadas and a few other journalists, whom he doesn't name, but this project evolved when he learned of the following things:

- Wei Ling would be living in the house for as long as she lived.

- There were initially plans to build a model of the interior of the house, but these had been dropped because LKY wanted to remove all traces of his private space inside his house.

3) Shifting instructions from the Lees indicated to him that the fate of the house had not been decided yet (during the 2011-2 period), after which Janadas had left ST and so wasn't involved in the book project anymore.

4) All that said, his personal view is that the house should be demolished after Wei Ling no longer lives there.

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Top photo via LKYSPP, file