A domestic worker who stabbed her employer’s mother-in-law 26 times in 2018, after the 70-year-old woman threatened to send her back to Myanmar, was found guilty of murder on Thursday. Myanmar national Zin Mar Nwe, who is now 22, came to work in Singapore in January 2018....
The victim and her family members cannot be identified owing to a gag order as one of the witnesses in the trial is below 18.
She said days after the victim came to stay, the woman started to use her knuckles to knock the maid on her head or back whenever she did not understand what the victim wanted her to do.She said on one occasion, while she was massaging the victim, the victim slapped her because she found the massage painful.
The judge found that the statement was made after a period in which the victim had scolded, hit and hurt the accused.
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