Housewife gets 30 years for torturing and killing Myanmar helper

Heinous act: Piang (right), who started working for the family on May 28, 2015, was assaulted almost daily at Gaiyathiri’s home for months. — The Straits Times/ANN

A 41-year-old housewife who starved, tortured and ultimately killed her domestic worker from Myanmar stared blankly into space as she was sentenced to 30 years’ jail.

In sentencing Gaiyathiri Murugayan, High Court judge See Kee Oon yesterday said: “Words cannot describe the abject cruelty of the accused’s appalling conduct.”