New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: A managing director of a training company who suffered insomnia after mistakenly thinking his business was failing stabbed his wife and their unborn child to death.
He had been suffering from adjustment disorder with anxious and depressed mood at the time of the offence and qualified for the partial defence of diminished responsibility. When Chow spoke to the manager of his company about finances on Jan 8, 2022, the manager saw that he looked stressed and noted that the company was still making a profit.
His family members continued trying to reach out to Chow. His father made an appointment for him to see a psychiatrist and arranged to ferry him to work. The man felt he had to do something, and thought of killing his wife to spare her and their unborn child, so they could"go to heaven" while he killed himself, said the prosecution.
Chow realised his father had sent him a message saying he was on his way to fetch him. Chow decided to call the police to tell them that he had killed his wife, as he did not want to implicate his father. An autopsy was also done on the foetus, which was found to be a girl of about 15 weeks' gestational age. It would not survive at such an age if it had been born, medical reports stated.