Maid who fatally stabbed employer’s mum-in-law 26 times gets life sentence reduced to 17 years’ jail


SINGAPORE: A domestic worker who was given life imprisonment in 2023 for murdering her employer’s mother-in-law was sentenced to 17 years’ jail on a reduced charge of culpable homicide by the Court of Appeal on Aug 26.

Zin Mar Nwe, 24, had stabbed the victim 26 times on June 25, 2018, after the 70-year-old woman threatened to send her back to the agent.

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