SINGAPORE: Persistently harassed by an unwanted suitor, a student nurse was advised by her father to make a police report. She declined, saying she did not want to "spoil the rice bowl" of the Indian national, who had come to Singapore to work to support his family, the High Court heard on Tuesday.
On Dec 20, 2013, the 20-year-old was repeatedly stabbed and slashed by healthcare assistant Varadharajan Mahadevan Mahadevan, 30, at the void deck of her Jurong West flat as she was on her way to school, leaving her permanently scarred.