Lankan maid gets 10-year-jail for killing lover in Singapore [May 06 2013]

A married Sri Lankan housemaid was jailed for 10 years by the Singapore High Court today for killing her lover, an Indian national, in 2009. It was proved that the 34-year-old Lankan woman - Puwaneswary Tharmalingam, had killed her lover following a confrontation in his room.

Singapore High Court heard that the couple started their affair in 2007. Her lover Murugaiyan has been working in Singapore since 1998 while Puwaneswary had come to Singapore in 2004.  She pleaded guilty to striking Murugaiyan Selvam (32) on the head with an improvised dumbbell in his room at his Kaki Bukit workplace on December 3, 2009.

Murugaiyan had demanded his lover for her employers’ cheque book as he needed money for his upcoming arranged marriage in India. Puwaneswary, whose husband and two children are living in Sri Lanka, confronted him for exploiting her for sex and money. Following a quarrel between the two, Puwaneswary had struck the Indian on the head with a 5.6-kg dumbbell.