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 (May 18).
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 .
The victim arrived in Singapore from India on May 26, 2018, intending to stay with the family for a month. The victim and her family members cannot be named due to a gag order. She went to her maid agency to request for her passport but left when she heard agents say that they were about to call her employers.
She relied on the defence's expert witness, psychiatrist Tommy Tan, to argue that she was in a"dissociative state" and could not control or remember her acts when she was stabbing the victim. However he noted that from what Zin Mar Nwe said, the victim's treatment of the domestic helper would not have caused the stabbing.
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