A CID vehicle outside a block in Ang Mo Kio Street 23 on Jan 12, 2022. A woman was found dead in a second-floor unit in the morning.SINGAPORE - The managing director of a security training centre was so convinced that his company was in financial trouble that he decided to kill his wife so that others might not go after her and their unborn child because of his business failure.
He then stabbed himself in the neck and stomach, and asked the devil to "take him" and for his wife and unborn daughter to go to heaven. A report from the Institute of Mental Health stated that due to his adjustment disorder, Chow had "catastrophic thinking that he would be bankrupt with no way out and had suicidal thoughts but felt that his death would bring shame to his wife".
They reassured him that the company made profits in the previous months, and that it was in a financially sound position to weather through the next two years. His mother took him out for lunch and took him home to rest after he repeated the same concerns to her. At about 5am, he took the sharpest knife from the kitchen, and headed for the master bedroom to his sleeping wife.
"When the accused realised that him stabbing himself was not killing him fast enough, he went to the fridge and consumed a random assortment of tablets. However, he still did not feel that he was dying," said the prosecutor.