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SINGAPORE: MAN FACES DEATH PENALTY FOR STABBING AND KILLING WOMAN
March 21, 2012: In Singapore, Indian national Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan, 36, was convicted of the murder of Filipina Roselyn Reyes Pascua and given the mandatory death penalty.
Justice Choo Han Teck said that the prosecution had proved its case against Gopinathan beyond a reasonable doubt.
Ms Pascua was found in her room at Peony Mansion, Bencoolen Street on March 15, 2010. She was stabbed multiple times in the chest, abdomen, neck and in her genital area, but the fatal injury was a stab that went through her ribs and into her heart.
Gopinathan did not deny stabbing Ms Pascua, who he said had solicited him for sex, but contended that he had acted under grave and sudden provocation. (Sources: straitstimes.com, 21/03/2012)
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