Hell hath no fury like a man scorned — and 41-year-old Indian national Palaiyan Murugudass proves that.
After his girlfriend, 38-year-old Filipina maid Remedios Allen Adolfo, broke up with him last year, the construction worker started calling her 20 to 30 times a day, forcing her to block his number.
One afternoon in August, he waited two hours for her near her employer’s flat in Tampines. When she walked past and ignored him, he threatened to kill her.
Using a pen knife, he slashed her neck, cheek and left hand — deep enough for her to almost see the bone in her hand and for her employer to see her the windpipe coming out of her throat, according to a report by The New Paper.
In court yesterday, Palaiyan was jailed four years and given nine strokes of the cane. He did not have legal representation. In mitigation, he claimed his parents were ill, but the the district judge “pointed out that he had told the Institute of Mental Health that his parents had died years ago. Palaiyan had insisted his parents were still alive.”
Remedios, meanwhile, is still recovering from both the trauma and multiple surgery she had to undergo following the attack.
