Maid jailed 12 years for strangling Singaporean girl with pinafore


Shameera Basha, a Secondary Four student from Tanjong Katong Girls

SINGAPORE: A domestic maid who strangled her employer's 16-year-old daughter with the girl's own school pinafore while the teenager was asleep, was on Monday jailed for 12 years.

Indonesian Tuti Aeliyah, 30, pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of culpable homicide for killing Shameera Basha Noor Basha, a Secondary 4 student at Tanjong Katong Girls' School, on Nov 14, 2013.

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