Maid attacks bosses, jumps

[Ginchiyo Tachibana]

Singapore
Mar 3, 2010

Maid attacks bosses, jumps

This shocking tragedy happened on Saturday morning at Draycott 8, an upscale condominium on Draycott Park, off Scotts Road. -- ST PHOTO: JESSICA LIM

<!-- story content : start --> A FILIPINO maid hit the head of her employer's wife with a clothes iron, then grabbed eight knives from the kitchen, cut her employers in a frenzied tussle, before plunging eight floors to her death. This shocking tragedy happened on Saturday morning at Draycott 8, an upscale condominium on Draycott Park, off Scotts Road. The 30-year-old maid had been working for a 47-year-old Caucasian and his 45-year-old Japanese wife for just a few months, according to Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao. Wanbao said on the day of the incident, the maid seemed extremely agitated and suddenly attacked the boss' wife with the iron, causing her to bleed profusely.

Shocked by the maid's sudden display of violence, the couple tried to question her but before they could do it, the maid grabbed eight knives from the kitchen, and waved them by a window at the balcony, weeping and creating a din. When coaxed by her employers to calm down, the maid turned on them instead, and stabbed them as they tried to bring her to safety. Moments later, she jumped off from the window as the shocked couple watched in horror. She died on the spot. The couple was admitted to a hospital for treatment for minor injuries, and have since been discharged.

 

[jimmyfallon]

Photo of attacker. How else can she hold 8 knives

 

[General Veers]

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By Amanda Yong

FIRST, she hit her employer's wife with a clothes iron. Then, when her boss tried to calm her down, she got into a scuffle with him, allegedly stabbing him and later his wounded wife with one of the knives she had grabbed from the kitchen. In a last violent act, the 30-year-old Filipino maid then allegedly jumped 15 storeys to her death. Paramedics found her body at the bottom of her employers' apartment at Draycott 8, an exclusive luxury condominium development <innity></innity>off Stevens Road.

 

[jimmyfallon]

employer had affair with maid, wife confronts the 2 of them, husband defends maid, wife picks up knife to attack husband, cut herself in the process. Maid tries to help by throwing iron at wife, husband comes to his senses and throws maid off the building. Couple makes up story. The end.