Singapore woman who starved, tortured Myanmar maid to death makes legal moves to avoid life imprisonment

Gaiyathiri Murugayan (left) admitted to starving, torturing and ultimately killing Piang Ngaih Don. - HELPING HANDS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS, LIANHE WANBAO

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): In a turn of events, a 41-year-old housewife who starved, tortured and ultimately killed her domestic worker from Myanmar has changed lawyers and is making further moves in a bid to avoid life in prison.

Gaiyathiri Murugayan, the wife of a policeman, pleaded guilty in February this year to 28 charges, the most serious being culpable homicide, for which prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.