Fatal Myanmar maid abuse: Mum-in-law of defendant tells court of plans to send victim home


Kevin Chelvam (left) is claiming trial to four charges related to the fatal abuse of Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don. - ST/HELPING HANDS FOR MIGRANT WORKERS

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The mother of a woman who abused a maid to death said she and her daughter were planning to terminate her contract and send her back home to Myanmar in August 2016, one month before the domestic helper died.

Prema S. Naraynasamy, 64, told the court on Wednesday (July 26) that the work performance of Piang Ngaih Don had stressed her daughter Gaiyathiri Murugayan so much the latter wanted to jump off a building with her two children.

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