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SINGAPORE: A man, who stabbed his wife and unborn child to death when he suffered from delusions, will face more time in jail.
Instead of a three-year prison sentence, 51-year-old Han John Han will be jailed for five years after the Court of Appeal imposed a heavier punishment on Friday, saying it could not overlook the loss of two lives.
The sentence also took into consideration the assessment that Han's psychological problem was caused by stress – a condition that could recur in future.
Prosecution had sought for a longer jail term, describing the three-year sentence handed by High Court Judge, Justice Choo Han Teck, as "manifestly inadequate".
Han had plunged a 50-centimetre-long sword into the chest of his pregnant wife, Fu Xiaopei, at their Holland Close flat in February last year.
He did so while under the delusion that she was practising black magic and wanted him dead.
Han, who pleaded guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, could have been imprisoned for up to ten years.
The jail term has been backdated to February last year when he was first remanded.
- CNA/so
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