SINGAPORE (IANS) | A Myanmar resident domestic worker has been convicted for the murder of her employer in 2018. This information has been given in a media report. The Straits Times reported on Thursday that 22-year-old Jin Mar Nawe, who had come to Singapore to work in January 2018, killed a 70-year-old woman after being abused and threatened with deportation to Myanmar.
On June 25, 2018, the two women were alone in the flat when Jin pulled out a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the elderly man several times.
She then took some cash and went to her agency to ask for a passport, where she was arrested a few hours later.
According to reports, after the arrest, the maid accepted her hand in the crime during interrogation.
Jin said that she was physically abused and mistreated by her employer.
She told that she had come to work at her employer’s family on May 26, 2018. When she couldn’t understand what the old man wanted her to do, she misbehaved with him.
Jin said that on one occasion, when he was massaging his mistress, she slapped him because the massage was causing her pain.
The limit was reached when the mistress said that she would be sent back to the agent the next day, which would mean going back to her country of origin in debt.
According to The Straits Times, Justice Andre Maniam convicted the accused maid after hearing the case. He rejected the argument of Jin’s lawyer that Jin was not in a good mood during the incident.
The matter has been adjourned to a later date for sentencing.
Those who can face the death penalty or life imprisonment.
–IANS
