Girl, 5, allegedly confined and murdered by father: 10-minute video of past assault played in court
SINGAPORE - Horrifying footage of a man lifting his four-year-old daughter up by her hair and punching her was played in court on Thursday, on the second day of his trial for murdering the girl in 2017 when she was five.
In the video, he points a pair of scissors at the girl and appears to be scolding her before launching a vigorous attack on her. He grabs her by her hair and lifts her from the floor, rains punches and kicks on her, holds her against the wall by her neck, and canes her.In the dock, the accused watched calmly at first but later wiped his eyes with his T-shirt.in the toilet of the flat between the night of Aug 10, 2017, and the early hours of Aug 11, 2017.
Beginning in early 2016, the girl and her younger brother, who were from the man’s previous marriage, were confined to a corner of the flat, the court was told. The couple, who married in 2015, had their first child in January 2016 and their second in December that year. The man cannot be named to protect the identity of his surviving son, who was four at the time of the fatal assault.
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