Cop's wife who tortured maid to death in bishan pleads guilty to culpable homicide

[just2share]

SINGAPORE - Chilling footage of an emaciated domestic worker being grabbed by the hair and shaken like a rag doll was played in court on Tuesday (Feb 23).

Her Singaporean employer, the wife of a police officer, admitted she had starved, tortured and ultimately killed her 24-year-old Myanmar helper.

Prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment for Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 40, after she pleaded guilty to 28 charges, the most serious being one of culpable homicide.

For close to 10 months, the maid, Ms Piang Ngaih Don, was physically assaulted almost daily, deprived of food and rest, and made to shower and relieve herself with the toilet door open.

In the last 12 days of her life, she was tied to the window grille at night while she slept on the floor.

The Myanmar national weighed 24kg when she died on July 26, 2016, from the final assault, having lost 38 per cent of her body weight since she started working for the family on May 28, 2015.

The ordeal she suffered in the last month of her life was captured on CCTV cameras that Gaiyathiri and her husband, Kevin Chelvam, 41, had installed in various parts of their Bishan flat to monitor the maid and their two children.

In one incident, the couple's one-year-old son could be seen toddling around as his mother assaulted the maid.

Gaiyathiri's mother, Prema S. Naraynasamy, 61, who often stayed at the flat, was also seen in the footage.

Both Prema and Chelvam face multiple hurt-related charges in connection with the victim. Their cases are pending in the State Courts.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/c...jl8jlLaCdw

[Tokiwa]

Since it is a SPF and the SPF's wife, it means they know the law and intentionally broke it.
The punishment should be Extra heavy for the member of the SPF - who is supposed to protect others rather than to torture an innocent until she dies. Minister Shan , what sweet excuses can he come up with for this "hometeam"black sheep?

[jus4lucky]

FT trash.Burn and sent her ash back.

[theold]

Cek Ark

[Mark Koh]

Why so cruel?

[keys]

She is lucky she didn't face the noose...she should have

[Billionaire]

She should be sentenced to death.

[Kanasaidiho]

Yaya papaya mindset.smelkyarmpit mindset

[Tokiwa]

She is lucky she didn't face the noose...she should have

She should be hanged , along with her " hometeam" husband and mother.
Life imprisonment will simply be a waste of taxpayers' money.

[Patriot Missile]

Ah neh buay gum pay maid celery tortured her to max. Diu!