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Just a month after her new job at the Tanah Merah ferry terminal, a 27-year-old Malaysian cleaner got into an argument with her supervisor, stabbed her with a pair of lawnmowers and beat her while begging for mercy.
Ahmad Muin Yaacob then stole the gold from 54-year-old Maimumah Awang, hid her body in a drain, and fled across the Causeway to Malaysia, where he pawned the jewelry, in part to pay for her wedding in Kelantan two weeks later. .
Yesterday Ahmad Muin was sentenced to 18 strokes of the baton and life imprisonment.
In a courtroom filled with members of Madame Maimumah’s family, the court heard that during the altercation on November 24, 2016, Ahmad Muin was alone in a warehouse with her when he attacked her and stabbed her with the blades of the cutters grass on the chest.
She fell and begged him not to hurt her or kill her. She tried to get up but he repeatedly hit her head with the lawnmowers.
He then pulled his body into a 6ft drain outside, removed the drain covers, pushed it in and closed the covers.
After taking her jewelry and phone, she took a taxi to Woodlands Checkpoint, where she caught a bus to Johor.
He continued with their wedding on December 9, 2016.
Nine days later, he was arrested by the Malaysian police and handed over to the Singapore police the next day at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
He was arrested upon arriving in Singapore that same day.
Yesterday, Ahmad Muin decided not to testify in his defense.
Judge Aedit Abdullah convicted him on a reduced murder charge under Article 300 (c) of the Penal Code, which carries life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Deputy Prosecutors Kumaresan Gohulabalan and Selene Yap argued that Ahmad Muin should receive 24 strokes of the baton due to the aggravations of the “extent of brutality”, lack of remorse and deliberate step to conceal the body.
LACK OF PREMADITATION
However, his lawyers Johannes Hadi and Eugene Thuraisingam argued in favor of 12 hits, citing a lack of premeditation in the attack, which was sparked by a brief discussion in which Madame Maimumah called Ahmad Muin’s family “bodoh” (Malay for stupid).
Speaking to The Straits Times after the court proceedings, one of Madam Maimumah’s three daughters, Suminah Sukardi, 35, who works as an administrator at a transportation company, said that the initial stage of losing her mother was very hard on the family.
Her sister Norhayati Sukardi, 34, a bakery manager, said that while she awaited a slightly harsher punishment, she is fine with the result.
She said, “My mom is already resting in peace whatever the sentence. She can’t come back to life.”
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