Defense lawyer said it was 'family matter'.
A 48-year-old Singaporean man is currently awaiting sentencing after he pled guilty to offenses including threats to kill his daughter and have his mother-in-law’s tongue cut off.
The man also tried to punch his wife after he asked her to pay back the S$10,000 he gave her to renovate her shop. When she blocked the punch, he pulled her by the collar, choked her and pushed her against the wall.Fast forward to a year later in June 2021, the wife and her three daughters had moved out of the flat to stay in a church.
When the wife called him to stop harassing her, he escalated matters and threatened to pay off people to cut her mother’s tongue and assault her mother with a pole.
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