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Singapore jails Myanmar maid for life over murder of employer’s 70-year-old mother-in-law she stabbed 26 times
- Zin Mar Nwe stabbed her employer’s elderly mother-in-law for threatening to send the Myanmar national back to her employment agency, a court heard
- Zin was thought to be 23-years-old at the time of the incident in 2018 but investigations later revealed that she was 17, sparing her the gallows
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A domestic worker in Singapore who stabbed her employer’s 70-year-old mother-in-law to death was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court on Tuesday.
Zin Mar Nwe, who was 17 at the time of the incident, stabbed the elderly woman 26 times after she threatened to send Zin back to her employment agent.
The Myanmar national had previously disputed the single charge of murder laid against her in November 2021.
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However, she was convicted in May after High Court Judge Andre Maniam rejected the defence’s arguments that Zin had not been conscious of the stabbing and was in a dissociative state of mind.
Because there is reason to believe you were below 18 at the time of offence, I sentence you to life imprisonment
Zin started working for the victim’s son-in-law on May 10, 2018. She stayed with her employer, his wife and their two teenage daughters.
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