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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