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Singapore – The only woman among seven people charged in the death of a man in Orchard Towers last year was sentenced to five months in jail on Friday (October 9).
Natalie Siow Yu Zhen, who was 23 years old when the murder took place in the early hours of July 2, 2019, pleaded guilty to being in a relationship with Tan Sen Yang. Tan possessed the karambit knife that killed Mr. Satheesh Noel Gobidass, 31. The weapon is curved and looks like a claw.
Siow also admitted to having voluntarily harmed Mr. Satheesh.
At his sentencing, a disorderly conduct charge was also taken into consideration, according to a report on todayonline.com.
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While Siow, along with the other six people, was initially charged with murder, only Tan still faces the murder charge. The charges were lowered for the others.
The prosecution said Friday that it knew that Siow’s actions had not caused Mr. Satheesh’s death, but Assistant District Attorney Benedict Teong said what the defendant had done caused great public concern.
The DPP told District Judge John Ng: “This is also a case of group violence against a single victim.”
The prosecution had sought a nine-month jail term for Siow.
According to his attorney, Mr. Amarick Gill of Amarick Gill LLC, Siow had learned his lesson. He did not question what the DPP said.
“It’s fair enough and Natalie gets it.
She has learned her lesson. I don’t see this girl backsliding, ever. “
Siow’s five-month sentence took into account the 107 days she has already spent in detention. Had you been given the maximum penalty on the charge of willfully causing harm with common intent, you could have spent two years in jail, been fined up to S $ 5,000, or both.
As for the charge of associating with a person with a dangerous weapon, Siow could have been jailed for up to three years.
The former part-time pub waitress is the third of seven in the group to have been convicted of the murder. In March, Ang Da Yuan, 26, was sentenced to eight months in jail and six strokes of the baton, and Joel Tan Yun Sheng, 26, received a four-week prison sentence.
Ang pleaded guilty to willfully causing harm to Mr. Satheesh by kicking and hitting him and associating with Tan Seng Yang, and another charge was taken into consideration in his sentencing.
Joel Tan pleaded guilty to willfully causing harm to the victim by common intent, and a second count was taken into consideration at his sentencing.
The cases against the others are pending.
On the day of the incident, the victim collapsed near an escalator in Orchard Towers and was found immobile in a pool of blood. The public attended his injuries. Police were alerted at 6.25 am and the victim was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital unconscious and pronounced dead an hour later. / ITGS
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