The judge found that she was conscious that she was stabbing the victim. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – A domestic worker convicted of murder by stabbing her employer’s mother-in-law 26 times, after the 70-year-old threatened to send her back to Myanmar, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday.When she came to work in Singapore in January 2018, she was instructed by her agent to declare her age as 23, but investigations revealed she was 17 at the time.
On June 25, the two women were alone in the flat when the maid grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the victim multiple times. But Justice Andre Maniam rejected this defence. He said he preferred the opinion of Dr Alias Lijo that she was not suffering from any mental illness at the time that reduced her responsibility for her actions.
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