SINGAPORE - Irritated that his emaciated maid was falling asleep while eating, the husband of a convicted maid abuser allegedly grabbed her by her hair and lifted her off the ground. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Irritated that his emaciated maid was falling asleep while eating, the husband of a convicted maid abuser allegedly grabbed her by her hair and lifted her off the ground.
Chelvam is also contesting one charge of giving false information to a police officer and another of removing closed-circuit television cameras depicting the abuse from his home.– the longest jail term meted out in a maid abuse case in Singapore. They have two children aged one and four at the time, and divorced in 2020.was sentenced to 14 years’ jail in January.
She said: “Evidence will be led to show that Chelvam had knowledge of the daily abuse of the deceased and had even participated in it himself. Said DPP Koh: “This would have been obvious to Chelvam - as he admitted in his statement that he noticed the drastic drop in the deceased’s weight.” The prosecution also noted that for the charge of voluntarily causing hurt, Ms Piang was so thin and light that Chelvam was able to lift her off the ground just by her hair alone.
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