SINGAPORE – A woman who starved and tortured her maid from Myanmar until she died said on Tuesday her former husband had hurt their helper about a month before her death. Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 43, who had been sentenced to 30 years’ jail in June 2021, was back in court as a prosecution witness against her former husband, suspended police staff...
SINGAPORE – A woman who starved and tortured her maid from Myanmar until she died said on Tuesday her former husband had hurt their helper about a month before her death.
Ms Piang Ngaih Don, a single mother of a three-year-old boy, arrived in Singapore to work for the family in May 2015. It was her first time working in a foreign country.Gaiyathiri and Chelvam, who were divorced in 2019 and have two children, sat across each other in the courtroom on the eighth day of his trial.
She said Chelvam’s responsibility as the sole breadwinner of the family was to pay for the family’s expenses. The prosecutor said if they were able to notice it despite not always staying at the Bishan flat, then surely she would have been able to notice it too.[[nid:639974]]Prema had been jailed a total of 17 years for her role in the case.During her trial, footage of the emaciated domestic worker being grabbed by the hair and shaken like a rag doll was played in court.
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