Singapore police officer jailed for abetting wife who tortured Myanmar helper to death
A judge said Kevin Chelvam knew Piang Ngaih Don was not being given enough to eat before her death in 2016 and he ignored her torment
The 24-year-old victim died of brain injury with severe blunt trauma to her neck, and weighed just 24kg at the time of her death.
Chelvam, 46, was convicted on a total of four charges.
He was found guilty of one count of voluntarily causing hurt by grabbing the helper’s hair and lifting her body off the ground, and one count of abetting his then-wife Gaiyathiri Murugayan to voluntarily cause grievous hurt by starving her.
He was also convicted of one count of giving false information to a police officer handling the case, and one count of causing evidence to disappear by dismantling a closed-circuit television (CCTV) recorder installed in his flat.
The prosecution urged district judge Teoh Ai Lin to jail Chelvam for 11 to 12 years, saying that this would speak to the harms caused to Piang Ngaih Don and “the outrage felt by the community”.