SINGAPORE: A woman saw her boyfriend of nearly four years browsing his phone on the bed when she returned home from work and became aggrieved over his failure to contribute to the rent.
In the ensuing argument, Li Ye, a Chinese national, grabbed a knife from the kitchen counter and stabbed 56-year-old Lim Lai Guan once in the chest.
On Friday (July 24), Li, 40, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail after she pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for killing Lim at a unit in the Citygate Residences condominium in Beach Road.
Li was a performance artiste manager at a nightclub that Lim frequented. After they met in September 2019, he told her he was undergoing divorce proceedings with his wife.
They began a romantic relationship in July 2020 and lived together.
In June 2021, she and her son from her previous marriage, together with Lim, moved into the condo unit. She was no longer working at the nightclub by then.
Lim resigned from his job as a manager at a medical instruments company in late 2021.
But he assured her that he could continue paying the $3,200 rent, as well as the expenses of her and her son, from the money he earned from forex trading.
In January 2022, Li arranged for her daughter, who was in China, to live with them.
When Li wanted to open a shop selling gowns to performance artistes, Lim invested $30,000 and paid the $2,000 rent.
However, he suffered losses from forex trading as well as the gown business, and started borrowing money from friends.
When Li started working at the nightclub again to earn some money, Lim became unhappy.
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