A 56-year-old woman met an extremely dreadful end at the hands of her son, a man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia who in a fit of madness stabbed his mother in the neck with two knives and slit her throat with a third one.
Her body was uncovered when her brother saw a pair of legs sticking out from a suitcase under the bed of the murderer.
It was believed that 34-year-old Sujay Solomon Sutherson carried out the matricide near the family’s Bukit Batok flat in the evening of May 27, 2012, The Straits Times reports.
Sujay confessed to the police that he left two knives embedded in the neck of his mother, Mallika Jesudasan, and had tried to burn his mother’s body. An autopsy revealed that she had bled to death from three stab wounds.
Sujay’s sister Sheena had left her mother alone in the flat with her brother on that tragic day. When her younger brother Sunil returned home around 10.45pm that night, the mother had already been missing, and Sujay could not explain properly where she was. Sheena and Sunil then called their uncle Daniel Jesudasan to help search for their mother.
In court, Daniel gave a testimony on how he uncovered the body of his sister in the suitcase. When he first arrived at the flat, he noted that the room of Mallika’s bedroom was wet, and there were also pieces of burnt fabric and paper. He also noticed that there was blood on Sujay’s right hand.
After searching the estate with Sunil and Sheena, he returned to the flat, noticing a strong odour of detergent in the toilet. He spotted a suitcase under Sujay’s bed and pulled it out. A pair of legs were sticking out of it.
The shocked Daniel then confronted Sujay and asked Sunil to call the police. Sujay then had a scuffle with Sunil and his uncle before two police officers arrived and arrested him.
It was also revealed that Sujay had been throwing away his medication, flushing his pills down the toilet and throwing them into the rubbish chute.
Should Sujay be convicted of culpable homicide, he will face up to 20 years in jail.
Photo: Tony Webster via Flickr
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