55-year-old man gets death sentence for killing China lover
SINGAPORE: The Supreme Court has sentenced a man to hang for murdering his China lover in June 2006.
Eu Lim Hoklai, 55, killed 30-year-old Yu Hongjin in her Ang Mo Kio
massage parlour after their affair soured. She died from strangulation
and two stab wounds.
Eu looked stoic when Justice Kan Ting Chiu read out his sentence on
Tuesday. But he broke down when his aged mother, wife and three
daughters came forward to meet him after the hearing.
His distraught family members were heard sobbing loudly even after the authorities led him away.
Eu first met Ms Yu in early 2005 when she solicited him for
business and they began their affair shortly after. He claimed that he
had paid for her trips to China and spent some S$20,000 on her.
But he decided to end the relationship in 2006 when he suspected that she was seeing another man behind his back.
Eu said Ms Yu had asked for S$30,000 from him to end the affair. He
added that she threatened to tell his wife about it if he did not
compensate her.
On June 18, three years ago, he visited her shop and a quarrel broke
out which escalated into a scuffle. Eu said Ms Yu lifted his shirt and
stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife.
That was when he grabbed her neck with one hand and tried to disarm her
with the other. He also said he had acted in self defence and Ms Yu was
stabbed in the struggle.
However, in the trial last year, a forensic scientist from the
Health Sciences Authority said that it is very likely that Eu's
injuries were self-inflicted.
The prosecution also said there was no evidence that a violent struggle had broke out in the massage parlour.
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U reap what you sow.
Originally posted by rlsh07:a life for another life
that right.