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A 24-YEAR-OLD man was found guilty on Friday of murdering his 18-year-old girlfriend in Ang Mo Kio more than two years ago.
Friends and family of Pathip Selvan Sugumaran who packed the courtroom cried as the High Court passed the mandatory death sentence on him for the murder of Miss Jeevitha Panippan.
Miss Jeevitha, whose body was found sprawled behind an electrical substation in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, suffered 15 external injuries, three of them fatal wounds that had cut into cartilage and bone.
Earlier that day, Pathip, who is known to family and friends as 'Marsiling Baby', had bought a kitchen knife with a 16-cm blade. He did not dispute that he killed the teenager on the night of July 7, 2008.
But he claimed that had been provoked by Miss Jeevitha who had taunted him by saying her new beau was better in bed than he was. He said his mind was blank when he blindly stabbed Miss Jeevitha.
His lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, also argued that since he was a child, Pathip has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a condition associated with impulsivity and rage, and that the abnormal mental state reduced his responsibility for the killing.
But these defences were rejected by the High Court.
A 24-YEAR-OLD man was found guilty on Friday of murdering his 18-year-old girlfriend in Ang Mo Kio more than two years ago.
Friends and family of Pathip Selvan Sugumaran who packed the courtroom cried as the High Court passed the mandatory death sentence on him for the murder of Miss Jeevitha Panippan.
Miss Jeevitha, whose body was found sprawled behind an electrical substation in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, suffered 15 external injuries, three of them fatal wounds that had cut into cartilage and bone.
Earlier that day, Pathip, who is known to family and friends as 'Marsiling Baby', had bought a kitchen knife with a 16-cm blade. He did not dispute that he killed the teenager on the night of July 7, 2008.
But he claimed that had been provoked by Miss Jeevitha who had taunted him by saying her new beau was better in bed than he was. He said his mind was blank when he blindly stabbed Miss Jeevitha.
His lawyer, Mr Subhas Anandan, also argued that since he was a child, Pathip has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a condition associated with impulsivity and rage, and that the abnormal mental state reduced his responsibility for the killing.
But these defences were rejected by the High Court.
