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Nov 17, 2009
16 years for killing relative <!--10 min-->
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China-born Wu Yun Yun, 26, married to opposition politician Tan Lead Shake, was originally charged with murder. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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THE China-born wife of opposition politician Tan Lead Shake was on Tuesday jailed 16 years for killing her brother-in-law and trying to kill her sister-in-law. In the early hours of June 28 last year, Wu Yun Yun, 27, stabbed her husband's younger brother, Mr Tan Lead Sane, 33, a computer engineer, and his wife, Madam Huang Meizhe, 36, also a Chinese national. He died shortly after. Prosecutors had pressed for Wu to be jailed for life for the killing, but the High Court decided that her case did not warrant an indeterminate sentence. Justice Kan Ting Chiu relied on the evidence of government psychiatrist George Fernandez, who said that Wu may have a relapse of the depression which led her to commit the offence, but she was unlikely to re-offend. In April, the court had heard that Wu felt miserable after her arranged marriage to Tan Lead Shake. She had problems adjusting to her new life and felt that her mother-in-law favoured Madam Huang. Wu's husband was not in court. After sentencing, her mother-in-law, Madam Ng Bee Hion, and Madam Huang burst into dramatic sobs, lamenting that the sentence was too light.
Nov 17, 2009
16 years for killing relative <!--10 min-->
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China-born Wu Yun Yun, 26, married to opposition politician Tan Lead Shake, was originally charged with murder. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
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THE China-born wife of opposition politician Tan Lead Shake was on Tuesday jailed 16 years for killing her brother-in-law and trying to kill her sister-in-law. In the early hours of June 28 last year, Wu Yun Yun, 27, stabbed her husband's younger brother, Mr Tan Lead Sane, 33, a computer engineer, and his wife, Madam Huang Meizhe, 36, also a Chinese national. He died shortly after. Prosecutors had pressed for Wu to be jailed for life for the killing, but the High Court decided that her case did not warrant an indeterminate sentence. Justice Kan Ting Chiu relied on the evidence of government psychiatrist George Fernandez, who said that Wu may have a relapse of the depression which led her to commit the offence, but she was unlikely to re-offend. In April, the court had heard that Wu felt miserable after her arranged marriage to Tan Lead Shake. She had problems adjusting to her new life and felt that her mother-in-law favoured Madam Huang. Wu's husband was not in court. After sentencing, her mother-in-law, Madam Ng Bee Hion, and Madam Huang burst into dramatic sobs, lamenting that the sentence was too light.