A High Court judge found that Zin Mar Nwe had failed to establish the defence of diminished responsibility.
SINGAPORE: A domestic helper from Myanmar who stabbed her employer's elderly mother-in-law to death in 2018 was found guilty of murder on Thursday .
After two employers, Zin Mar Nwe began working for the victim's son-in-law on May 10, 2018. She stayed with her employer, his wife and two teenage daughters. After this, Zin Mar Nwe broke a lock on a cupboard in the master bedroom and retrieved her belongings. She washed the knife and changed into a dress before leaving the flat.
During the trial, Zin Mar Nwe sought to rely on the partial defence of diminished responsibility, on the basis that she suffered from mixed anxiety and depressive reaction or adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood at the time of the killing. The judge accepted that the victim had hit Zin Mar Nwe to get her attention or to reprimand her, and that the victim had also retaliated when Zin Mar Nwe accidentally hurt the victim on certain occasions.
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