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A Danang court has handed a life sentence to a 45-year-old Vietnamese woman who murdered her five-year-old son and claimed more than US$150,000 in fraudulent insurance payouts by staging the death as an accident.
An Indonesian maid has received a life sentence in Singapore for suffocating her employer's 73-year-old father with a pillow in 2022. The killing followed accusations of theft and mounting financial pressures from scams.
A 63-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his 61-year-old flatmate in March 2023. Ng Boon Hong poured boiling oil on Ang Cheng Kek before fatally stabbing him multiple times following escalating disputes in their shared Redhill rental unit.