Singapore:

An Indian-origin married man was sentenced to twenty years in jail on Monday for culpable murder not amounting to murdering his girlfriend for having relationships with different males.

Upset about her relationships with different males, M Krishnan punched and kicked Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman, 40, who died on January 17, 2019.

Krishnan, 40, pleaded responsible within the Excessive Court docket final week, “TODAY” newspaper reported on Monday.

His sentence was backdated to the date of his arrest.

Justice Valerie Thean famous that Krishnan had promised he was a reformed particular person in 2018 in his mitigation (for an additional offence of abusing law enforcement officials), however continued to abuse his spouse and girlfriend.

She additionally famous throughout the sentencing that though Krishnan’s intermittent explosive dysfunction had some contribution to his violent actions, alcohol had additionally influenced the way in which he acted.

Justice Thean added that although he was recognized with the dysfunction after the offence, “the accused knew he was prone to exhibiting his mood in socially unacceptable methods” by way of his previous brushes with the regulation.

Saying that she couldn’t overlook his repeated home abuse in opposition to the ladies, the decide sentenced Krishnan to twenty years in jail.

For culpable murder not amounting to homicide, the utmost penalty is life imprisonment and caning, or a jail time period of as much as 20 years and a fantastic or caning.

In November 2015, Krishnan’s spouse caught him and his girlfriend consuming alcohol in the master suite of their marital house.

Upset, she uttered vulgarities at Krishnan and he then punched her within the face, earlier than grabbing a whisky bottle.

Afraid that he would hurl the bottle at her, the spouse apologised and later, obtained a private police safety order in opposition to him.

Krishnan and Mallika continued their relationship all this whereas up till her demise.

Throughout their time collectively, Krishnan hit Mallika at the least as soon as in 2017 “over a trivial matter”, court docket paperwork said.

The abuse intensified firstly of 2019 after Mallika admitted to having sexual relations with a number of males, together with when Krishnan was in jail in 2018, in accordance with TODAY’s report.

On January 15, 2019, Krishnan kicked and slapped Mallika within the face, punched her within the ribs and kicked her within the thigh.

This was after she confessed to dishonest whereas they have been consuming alcohol within the condo they shared.

As she pleaded with him to not go away, he grabbed her by the neck and pushed her, inflicting her to fall and hit her head in opposition to a wardrobe.

She received up, stumbled to the kitchen and slumped in entrance of a cupboard. He informed her to rise up and when she didn’t, he pushed her brow, inflicting her to hit her head in opposition to the cabin.

The subsequent day, Mallika sought medical therapy at a hospital and was discovered with a number of bruises and abrasions.

Whereas Mallika was on the hospital, Krishnan drank alcohol all through the day.

At evening, they spoke with Mallika’s sister over the telephone about Mallika’s relationship with one other man.

Feeling offended and pissed off over her varied affairs, Krishnan assaulted Mallika once more.

He slapped her face, grabbed her by her hair, and punched and kicked her.

After kicking her repeatedly whereas she was on the bottom, he helped her to the mattress and realised that she was not responsive or respiratory.

He then referred to as the Singapore Civil Defence Drive at about 1:35 am and Mallika was pronounced lifeless later by the responders.

An post-mortem discovered that she had died from a head damage, with a number of bruises on her scalp, again of her neck, face and round her physique.

A number of of her ribs have been fractured as effectively.

Throughout sentencing on Monday, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Timotheus Koh informed the court docket that Krishnan had requested a buddy to let him sleep in his condo after the assault.

Within the afternoon of January 17, 2019, Krishnan surrendered himself to police.

After his arrest, Krishnan was recognized with intermittent explosive dysfunction — a situation the place there are frequent impulsive anger outbursts or aggression — which was discovered to have contributed to his offence.

Nevertheless, the extent of violence he inflicted on his girlfriend was “probably attributable to the alcohol intoxication, including to the intermittent explosive dysfunction”, court docket paperwork confirmed.

The prosecution sought a sentence of 15 to 18 years in jail, urging the court docket to “ship a transparent message that the courts don’t tolerate violence of this nature”.

Koh mentioned though Krishnan’s psychological dysfunction was recognized after the offence, he had a historical past of “socially unacceptable behaviour” involving violence whereas intoxicated.

This included Krishnan’s mitigation plea in 2018 for being verbally abusive and spitting on law enforcement officials, the place he acknowledged that alcohol had “severely clouded my resolution on the time”.

He additionally mentioned Krishnan was referred for counselling because of the home violence that occurred from 2015 to 2016, and that his actions confirmed his “propensity for abusing his home companions”.

Koh added: “No mitigating weight ought to be positioned on no matter feelings that the accused was feeling after the deceased’s confessions to him about her relations with different males.

“The accused will not be within the place to punish the deceased for her purported infidelity.” Throughout mitigation, Krishnan’s lawyer mentioned his consumer had pleaded responsible early, surrendered to police and absolutely cooperated throughout investigations.

Krishnan had been controlling his alcohol consumption — consuming solely on weekends when he was not working — he added.

Nevertheless, it was Mallika’s relationships with different males that had “affected his judgement”.

“He thought alcohol would help him to deal with his emotions,” the lawyer mentioned. 

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