Warning: This article contains distressing details of severe physical abuse.
SINGAPORE: A man was convicted of murder on Thursday (Nov 5) after being part of a group that abused his 19-year-old younger sister until she died.
Huang Bocan, who joined his girlfriend and another man in starving the victim and chaining her to a toilet, was first charged in 2021 with common intention of committing murder by causing bodily injury to Huang Baoying.
Huang, a 35-year-old Singaporean, was convicted on Thursday of committing murder by causing his younger sister’s death.
The prolonged abuse resulted in the death of Baoying, who had lost 43 per cent of her body weight by the time she died from excessive blunt force trauma and severe malnourishment on May 5, 2021.
His co-accused are Lim Peng Tiong and Chee Mei Wan. Chee was the “coach” of a company she ran that marketed and sold Herbalife products, where Huang, Lim and Baoying were members and “trainee coaches”.
Lim was sentenced to 14 years and 11 months’ jail in May, while Chee’s case is pending before the courts.
The trio and Baoying met in 2018 through Chee’s company, Colourful Nutrifit, which she called a club. The victim, then aged between 16 and 17, wanted to lose weight, improve herself and earn money, the court heard.
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