Businessman sentenced to life in jail for murdering wife's ex-lover

Chia Kee Chen seen in a car outside the Subordinate Courts, on Jan 2, 2014. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO.

SINGAPORE: A businessman who murdered his wife's former lover was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court on Friday.

Chia Kee Chen, 57, was found guilty in January of forcing the victim, material analyst Dexmon Chua Yizhi, 37, into the back of a van and assaulting him between Dec 28 and Dec 29, 2013. He had an accomplice, Indonesian Febri Irwansyah Djatmiko, who fled the country.