A 34-year-old Singaporean of Indian-origin, with a history of paranoid schizophrenia, has been found guilty of killing his mother by stabbing her in the neck and slitting her throat with knives three years ago.
Sujay Solomon Sutherson faces either life imprisonment with caning or up to 20 years' jail with caning or fine, for killing his 56-year old mother Mallika Jesudasan.
He was found guilty yesterday of culpable homicide after a five-day High Court trial and will be sentenced next month, The Straits Times reported today.
Judicial Commissioner Hoo Sheau Peng rejected Sutherson's account of self-defence. The man had claimed that his mother had grabbed his hair, scratched him and tried to take his clothes off at their apartment after he dismissed her request for money.
Jesudasan's body was found hidden under the bed by her brother Daniel Jesudasan, who along with Sutherson's other siblings had earlier made a futile search for the lady in the neighbourhood.
The victim, a divorcee, was last seen alive on May 27, 2012, by her daughter Sheena, 31, who left the apartment, leaving her mother with Sutherson. But when the younger son, Sunil, 28, returned home at 10.40 pm and asked the whereabouts of his mother, Sutherson said he did not know.
When his mother's body was found under the bed, Sutherson demanded that his family membes hand over their mobile phones though the siblings managed to slip away and call the police.
After his arrest, Sutherson told the police that in self- defence, he plunged a knife through his mother's neck, stabbed her again with a second knife, then slit her throat with a third knife.
When his attempts to burn her body failed, he hid her under his bed and cleaned up the flat.
