The Filipino maid charged with killing her close friend and
fellow maid in Singapore has been sentenced to 10 years in
jail.
Guen Garlejo Aguilar, 29, was charged with culpable homicide not
amounting to murder.
The jail term has been backdated to the date of her arrest on 10
September 2005.
Aguilar had earlier pleaded guilty to smothering and strangling
Jane La Puebla to death.
She later chopped the body up into six parts.
The head and limbs were found near the Orchard MRT station and at
MacRitchie reservoir.
Aguilar had said that the many hours after La Puebla's death were a
blur.
She "vaguely remembers putting the body in a luggage bag".
But the statement of facts showed that she kept the body for two
days before buying a chopper, axe, gloves, detergent and garbage
bags to dismember and dispose of it later.
Aguilar appeared composed and unemotional when the sentence was
passed.
Her husband and sister were also present in court.
The defence lawyer asked for 5 minutes after the judgement for the
family to see her before they fly back to the Philippines on
Tuesday morning.
The Mayor of Aguilar's hometown, Mr Roque Versosa, said that
Aguilar had entrusted him to look after her two boys, aged 6 and 7
years old, who are kept in the dark since the murder took place. -
CNA/ir