Woman serving jail term for fatally abusing maid Piang Ngaih Don back in court to admit to hiding CCTV evidence
and starved their domestic worker until she died, was hauled back to court on Thursday where she admitted to trying to conceal closed circuit television footage of the abuse.
Previous court hearings have been told that Piang weighed 39kg when she took up the job with the family in May 2015, but had fallen to just 24kg by the time of her death after being deprived of enough food.in the High Court had said the young woman had been “abused, humiliated, tortured and starved” before her death.
When Chelvam returned to the house following a call from Gaiyathiri on the day of Piang's death, Prema spoke to him in one of the bedrooms and asked him to dismantle the CCTV recorder from the power source so that it could be disposed of. This all happened in front of Prema who told the investigator that they"did not know" where the recorder was, even though it was in fact in Prema's possession inside the house, DPP Lim said.
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