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Jan 11, 2010
Man admits killing prostitute
<!-- by line --> By Carolyn Quek
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<!-- end left side bar --> <!-- story content : start --> HE HAD sex with a pregnant prostitute twice in a Geylang hotel but when Indian national Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy asked for the third time, she wanted more money. A scuffle ensued, and the 21-year-old general worker ended up killing the Sri Lankan woman and stuffing her body under the bed. Despite this, he took her valuables, found another prostitute and brought her back to the same room for sex. Reddy, who worked in a shipbuilding company, pleaded guilty on Monday to committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder in September 2008. He will be sentenced on Thursday. The High Court heard that Reddy got to know the Sri Lankan prostitute, also 21, less than a month before he killed her. She was seven months pregnant with a boy when she died and had two other sons aged six and two. He was arrested on Sept 5 2008, two days after he took her to the Diammond Hotel at Geylang Lorong 18. Reddy faces the maximum punishment of a life sentence.