Re: Man sentenced to jail and caning for slashing estranged wife's throat -- right in
A 45-year-old man who slashed the throat of his estranged wife in full view of her nine-year-old daughter was on Friday (Nov 4) sentenced to eight years' jail and nine strokes of the cane.
Indian national Krishnan Karunakaran had confronted his Singaporean wife Boomichelvi Ramasamy, 38, with a knife on Oct 27, 2013, to threaten her into extending his visa and allowing him to see their one-year-old daughter.
As they struggled in the corridor outside her Hougang flat, Krishnan cut her throat with the knife, severing her internal jugular vein, as her daughter from a previous marriage looked on through the metal gate.
The victim, a teacher, survived the life-threatening injury. She was discharged from hospital two days after emergency surgery.
Justice Chan Seng Onn, after he had sentenced Krishnan, said: "There's no reason for you to resort to such violence even if you desperately wanted to see your daughter. You should have resorted to the legal process and not take matters into your own hands."