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Woman jailed for hitting dad with hammer
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A WOMAN on trial for whacking her father with a hammer threw in the towel yesterday following a day of testimony and admitted to the May attack.
Tan Su Ann, 39, was jailed two years for the rampage, in which she also attacked her father's maid.
Community Court Judge Roy Neighbour also referred Tan, who has a history of psychiatric problems, to the prisons department for treatment of an alcohol problem.
Tan's father, retiree Tan Cheong Hui, testified last week that he could not understand why his daughter attacked him.
While he has two other children, the 79-year-old said he loved her so much that he named her his sole beneficiary in his will.
After the attack, he destroyed the will.
Yesterday, Assistant Public Prosecutor Robert Tan said Tan returned home on May 27 after losing around $3,000 gambling in the Genting Highlands.
She spent the evening drinking a bottle of red wine and watched a movie until around midnight, when she knocked on the maid's door.
Her father came out of his room when he heard her shouting at the maid, and Tan pushed him.
After the maid, Ms Yuyun Wahyuni, 35, intervened, Tan took a hammer from a storeroom and struck her father on the head, cutting him.
Mr Tan and the maid ran into his room and closed the door. Tan then grabbed two knives and used the hammer to smash the doorknob. She barged into the room and swung the hammer at her father and the maid.
Tan, who has several theft convictions, could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for causing hurt with a weapon. ELENA CHONG
Woman jailed for hitting dad with hammer
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A WOMAN on trial for whacking her father with a hammer threw in the towel yesterday following a day of testimony and admitted to the May attack.
Tan Su Ann, 39, was jailed two years for the rampage, in which she also attacked her father's maid.
Community Court Judge Roy Neighbour also referred Tan, who has a history of psychiatric problems, to the prisons department for treatment of an alcohol problem.
Tan's father, retiree Tan Cheong Hui, testified last week that he could not understand why his daughter attacked him.
While he has two other children, the 79-year-old said he loved her so much that he named her his sole beneficiary in his will.
After the attack, he destroyed the will.
Yesterday, Assistant Public Prosecutor Robert Tan said Tan returned home on May 27 after losing around $3,000 gambling in the Genting Highlands.
She spent the evening drinking a bottle of red wine and watched a movie until around midnight, when she knocked on the maid's door.
Her father came out of his room when he heard her shouting at the maid, and Tan pushed him.
After the maid, Ms Yuyun Wahyuni, 35, intervened, Tan took a hammer from a storeroom and struck her father on the head, cutting him.
Mr Tan and the maid ran into his room and closed the door. Tan then grabbed two knives and used the hammer to smash the doorknob. She barged into the room and swung the hammer at her father and the maid.
Tan, who has several theft convictions, could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined for causing hurt with a weapon. ELENA CHONG
