Indian-origin former policeman jailed for function in home helps loss of life in Singapore

A Singapore courtroom on Thursday (July 17, 2025) sentenced an Indian-origin particular person to 10 years imprisonment for his function within the deadly abuse of a 24-year-old home assist, who died after months of hunger and bodily torture by his ex-wife and mother-in-law.

Kevin Chelvam, 46, a former police officer, was convicted on 4 prices, together with voluntarily inflicting harm to Piang Ngaih Don, abetting grievous harm by hunger, offering false info to the police, and tampering with proof by dismantling a CCTV recorder from his house.

According to a Channel News Asia report, Don, who hailed from Myanmar, died on July 26, 2016, from mind accidents attributable to repeated blunt trauma. Severely malnourished, she weighed simply 24 kilograms on the time of her loss of life, it mentioned.

District Judge Teoh Ai Lin famous that Chelvam was her authorized employer however did nothing whereas Don was frequently abused by his then-wife, Gaiyathiri Murugayan, and mother-in-law, Prema S Narayanasamy. Both girls are already serving jail sentences of 30 and 17 years, respectively, for his or her roles within the case.

The courtroom additionally discovered that he actively eliminated the CCTV recorder containing essential proof and misled investigators.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sean Teh mentioned the footage recovered from the flat confirmed Chelvam current throughout a number of cases of abuse and accused him of endorsing the denial of meals to the sufferer, which contributed to her incapability to outlive the beatings.

The courtroom, nevertheless, granted him a discharge amounting to an acquittal on a fifth cost of utilizing felony drive.