A 31-year-old woman was charged on Saturday (Nov 5) with murdering her 67-year-old adoptive father at their home in Sengkang.

Tan Qiu Yan is accused of killing the man, identified in court documents as Tan Ah Bang, at a 15th storey unit at Block 190A Rivervale Drive sometime between 8pm on Thursday and 5.25am on Friday.

A bespectacled Tan, wearing a face mask, appeared in court via video link from the central police division at the Police Cantonment Complex for a brief hearing to have her charge read to her in Mandarin.

A police prosecutor requested for her to be kept in remand for a week as well as for permission to bring her out for investigations and to seize exhibits. District Judge Luke Tan granted the requests.

Police officers had responded to a call at around 5.30am on Friday and found him lying motionless with multiple wounds inside a flat along Rivervale Drive.

He was later pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene and Tan was arrested.

No other details were given on how the alleged murder happened and police investigations are under way.

Tan is set to return to court on Nov 11.

The offence of murder carries the death penalty.

Relatives of the deceased expressed shock and anger on Friday, telling TODAY that the man and his late wife had treated their daughter “like a princess” her whole life after adopting her and caring for her.

They also said that the father-daughter relationship began souring after the mother died two months ago, and the pair fought over ownership of the house and household chores.

Tan was adopted by the couple when she was an infant because the couple could not conceive, the deceased’s brother-in-law said.

The deceased had been a butcher who retired after he suffered from a mini stroke a few years ago, he added.

One neighbour living next door to the family told TODAY that she did not hear anything on Friday until she was woken up in the morning and saw several police officers along the common corridor.

She added that she saw two police officers escorting a woman out of the flat at around 7.45am.

Source:
courtesy of TODAY

by DARYL CHOO

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