20 years’ jail for habitual abuser who beat girlfriend to death

The domestic violence turned fatal one night in January 2019, when M. Krishnan, battered Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman to death. - LIANHE ZAOBAO

SINGAPORE: A married man who habitually beat a girlfriend he lived with over trivial matters intensified the abuse after she confessed to having relationships with other men.

The domestic violence turned fatal one night in January 2019, when M. Krishnan battered Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman, then 40, to death in an alcohol-fuelled assault that took place over two hours.