Wife poisoned hubby?

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Nov 4, 2009
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Mr Chan (left), a retiree and former contractor, testified that he was hospitalised a couple of times in 2006, and was so sick during one period that he could not move his arms. --ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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A WOMAN who allegedly poisoned her husband went on trial before a Community Court on Wednesday. Fong Quay Sim, 67, claimed trial to causing her husband, Mr Chan Tin Sun, 70, to take arsenic with intention to cause hurt to him at their former house at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. Mr Chan, a retiree and former contractor, testified that he was hospitalised a couple of times in 2006, and was so sick during one period that he could not move his arms. He then found out from doctors that he had been poisoned. Mr Chan, who now lives apart from Fong, testified that he suspected his wife but when he confronted her, she denied it. Only the couple lived in the house as their son was overseas. They only employed an Indonesian maid to look after him when he became unwell. Under cross-examination by Fong's lawyer, Mr Looi Won Hui, Mr Chan said he now has skin cancer caused by the poison in his body. If convicted, Fong faces a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine.

 

[Ripley]

Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Nov 5, 2009
Wife poisoned me: Husband <!--10 min-->
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Fong (left) is accused of committing the offence between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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FOR years, Mr Chan Tin Sun felt unwell and could never pinpoint the cause until he landed in hospital in 2006. It was then that the retiree learnt the unthinkable: He might have been eating poisoned food at home. The 70-year-old former contractor on Wednesday described how he found out he was being poisoned, on the opening day of the trial of Fong Quay Sim, 67, his wife of over 30 years who is accused of causing him to consume arsenic. Mr Chan said he had suspected for years that something was up with his food, as he had thrown up a few times after eating at home. He had asked his wife if the food was 'dirty' as far back as in 2003. She had said then she knew nothing about it. Mr Chan said he became so ill in 2006 that he could not even move his limbs at one stage. It was while he was in Changi General Hospital that doctors told him that he had been poisoned. Police were alerted to the case in November that year after arsenic was found in Mr Chan's urine. Testifying in Cantonese through an interpreter, he told Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong that he suspected his wife as they were the only ones living in their Jalan Ulu Siglap home at the time doctors said he was being poisoned.
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sleep with a cobra. the most poisonous is the woman's heart.

 

[Ripley]

Wife admits poisoning man

Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Nov 6, 2009
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Fong is alleged to have caused her husband to take arsenic at their former home at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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A WOMAN confessed to poisoning her husband when quizzed by a police officer, a district court heard on Friday Fong Quay Sim, who turned 68 on Friday, admitted poisoning her husband, Mr Chan Tin Sun, 70, to the investigation officer, Sheik Faisal, on Oct 29 last year. The Bedok police division station inspector said he met Fong near her house at Opera Estate the day before and told her he had to re-interview her. The next day, he told Fong that based on the arsenic found in the victim's blood, police suspected that someone could have deliberately given poison to the victim.
He then asked if she had any comments on the matter. After a while, Fong told him that she was the one who had poisoned him, claiming that she was 'angry and depressed with her husband'. The officer stopped the interview and contacted his supervisor who directed him to invite Fong to write her own confession. Fong is alleged to have caused her husband to take arsenic at their former home at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. The trial continues.

 

[General Veers]

Evil woman!!

 

[General Veers]

Singapore
Jan 15, 2010

POISONING OF HUBBY CASE
'Forced to sign statement'

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Fong Quay Sim (left) is alleged to have poisoned her husband, Mr Chan Tin Sun (right) with arsenic at their former matrimonial home at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA

A WOMAN accused of poisoning her husband on Friday alleged that the investigation officer shouted and pointed a finger at her, blaming her for the crime. Fong Quay Sim, 68, was taking the stand in a trial-within-a-trial to determine if her written confessions to the police were made voluntarily. She is alleged to have poisoned her husband, Mr Chan Tin Sun, 70, with arsenic at their former matrimonial home at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005.

Fong, who is now living apart from her husband, claimed that investigation officer Sheik Faisal, from Bedok police division, forced her to sign the cautioned statement on Feb 10 last year. She said she was at the Station Inspector's office that day when he pointed a finger and shouted at her, saying, 'You had poisoned your husband.' Fong denied this, insisting she did not give anything to her husband. She said he spoke in a very fierce tone when he kept insisting that she was the one.

'I was very sad. He kept on saying that the doctor said you did it; the hospital and private doctor said you did it. I said no. I didn't do anything,' she said. She added that the officer forced her to sign earlier statements on Nov 29, 2008, warning her that she would get a long trial and heavier sentence if she refused. Deputy Public Prosecutor Lynda Lee said this was the first time those allegations were made and suggested that they were afterthoughts. Fong denied this. Fong also denied that she was fabricating evidence, saying she was speaking the truth.

 

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Wife denies poisoning act

Singapore
Mar 25, 2010

Wife denies poisoning act

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Fong Quay Sim denied poisoning her husband and maintained that she took very good care of him in their 30 years of marriage and obeyed his every command. -- NP PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA

SHE denied poisoning her husband and maintained that she took very good care of him in their 30 years of marriage and obeyed his every command.
Fong Quay Sim, 68, said this on Thursday after Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong ruled that the prosecution had made a case against her for poisoning Mr Chan Tin Sun with arsenic in their former matrimonial home in Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. Fong said she had no motive to poison her husband, 70, a retiree. When Mr Chan was warded in Changi General Hospital in October 2006, she visited him every evening with cakes, milk powder and sometimes chicken rice, as he did not like hospital food.

Mr Chan's two sisters also brought porridge every morning and on some evenings, she said. The court also heard that it was during the hospital stay that a doctor discovered that Mr Chan was being poisoned. Dr David Ong Eng Hui testified that his suspicions were aroused by the skin condition of Mr Chan. When tests revealed high levels of arsenic in the urine of the patient, the doctor informed the cops. His arsenic levels went down after Mr Chan was barred from eating food brought by the visitors. If found guilty, Fong could be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.

 

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Wife denies poisoning hubby

Singapore
Mar 26, 2010

ARSENIC POISONING TRIAL
Wife denies poisoning hubby
Arsenic poisoning can occur accidentally: Doctor

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Fong and her son, Dr Chan Vichaya, leaving court yesterday. She told the court she was a dutiful wife. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

<!-- story content : start --> FORMER hairdresser Fong Quay Sim, accused of lacing her husband's food with insecticide, yesterday denied poisoning him. She had no reason to do so, she told the Community Court. In fact, she had taken very good care of him, and obeyed his every command in their 30 years of marriage, she claimed. Fong, 68, is accused of spiking Mr Chan Tin Sun's food with arsenic in their former matrimonial home in Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005.
She came up with details about their marriage after Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong ruled that the prosecution had made a case against her for poisoning the 70-year-old retired contractor. Fong's lawyer, Mr Looi Wan Hui, gave the court three letters Fong wrote to the Ministry of Health complaining about the treatment her husband received at Changi General Hospital (CGH) in 2006. In one letter, she complained that doctors had discharged her husband even though he had a high fever and bouts of vomiting.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Guilty of poisoning husband


May 5, 2010
Guilty of poisoning husband

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Fong was convicted of causing her former contractor-husband to consume arsenic at their former Jalan Ulu Siglap home sometime between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

<!-- story content : start --> A WOMAN who was tried for poisoning her husband was found guilty of the offence by a district judge on Wednesday. Former hairdresser Fong Quay Sim, 68, was convicted of causing her former contractor-husband, Mr Chan Tin Sum, 70, to consume arsenic at their former Jalan Ulu Siglap home sometime between 2004 and 2005. Her confessions that she added ant killer to his food and drink as she had had enough of his violence and the physical and mental abuse he dealt her over 30 years of marriage were accepted by the court as reliable evidence.

Community Court judge Ng Peng Hong also found her to be not a credible witness compared to the investigation officer from Bedok, Station Inspector Sheik Faisal. He adjourned mitigation and sentencing to May 27. Fong faces a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine for causing a person to take poison with intent to cause hurt.

 

[Ginchiyo Tachibana]

Guilty of poisoning hubby


May 6, 2010
Guilty of poisoning hubby

She was evasive and untruthful, says judge

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Fong was convicted of causing her former contractor-husband to consume arsenic at their former Jalan Ulu Siglap home sometime between 2004 and 2005. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

<!-- story content : start --> FONG Quay Sim portrayed herself as a frail and weak woman who had no reason to hurt her husband of 31 years because they were in a happy marriage. In reality, she hated her 70-year-old husband immensely and had wanted to poison him with arsenic in order to get back at him, a district judge said yesterday when he convicted her for poisoning retired contractor Chan Tin Sun. Fong, 68, had no qualms about putting anti-ant powder - an insecticide containing arsenic - into his food and tea after years of physical and verbal abuse by him.

When she was found out, she was not above lying to get herself off the hook, the judge said. Fong, a London-trained hairstylist, is now looking at a jail term of up to 10 years after District Judge Ng Peng Hong found her guilty yesterday. She poisoned Mr Chan at their home at Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005, and was found out after he became sick and bedridden for months in 2006.

Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
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Woman jailed a year


May 27, 2010

ARSENIC POISONING CASE
Woman jailed a year

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She was found guilty earlier this month of poisoning her husband, retired contractor Chan Tin Sun, 70, at their former matrimonial home in Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. -- STY PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

<!-- story content : start --> A 68-YEAR-OLD woman convicted earlier of causing her husband to take arsenic with intent to cause hurt to him was sentenced to 12 months' jail on Thursday. Fong Quay Sim is, however, appealing against the sentence. She had earlier filed a notice of appeal against conviction through her counsel, Mr Looi Wan Hui.

She was found guilty earlier this month of poisoning her husband, retired contractor Chan Tin Sun, 70, at their former matrimonial home in Jalan Ulu Siglap between 2004 and 2005. Mr Chan had told the court that during his admission to Changi General Hospital in 2006, he felt very weak, and could not move his limbs and was bed-ridden for a few months.

Even after his discharge, he continued to suffer and was vomiting at home. He also said that whenever he ate at home, he would vomit having taken food prepared by his wife. Fong, the court heard, had used a pesticide known as AntiAnt powder to poison the victim as she was extremely unhappy with him for scolding her. On analysis, the Health Sciences Authority found that the poison was arsenic, a highly toxic and hazardous substance.

District Judge Ng Peng Hong agreed with Deputy Public Prosecutor Lynda Lee that the offence was serious and imprisonment was mandatory. In four previous cases involving maids, they had been given between eight months and four years for similar offences. Fong could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined.

 

[Jabba the Hutt]

May 23, 2011

Client forced to confess to poisoning husband: lawyer

By Khushwant Singh

Fong Quay Sim, 69 yrs-old sentenced to a year's jail for poisoning her husband of more than 30 yrs by lacing his tea and food with arsenic, appeals against her conviction and sentence at Supereme Court. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

THE lawyer for Fong Quay Sim, jailed a year for lacing her husband's tea and food with arsenic, said that the investigating officer in the case was a 'rogue cop' who lied during the trial. Sheik Faisal Shaik Abdul Kader Ali, 34, is now facing 14 charges of illegally accessing the police force's computer system. This abuse of his position as a police officer indicates he cannot be trusted, said defence counsel Wendell Wong.

During Fong's appeal hearing in the High Court on Monday, the lawyer said that the station inspector was fully capable of forcing Fong, 69, to confess to a crime she did not commit and lying about it.

At the trial in the lower court in November 2009, she had made similar allegations but Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong found Sheik Faisal to be a credible witness, who had no reason to lie. But the cop was under pressure from superiors to close the case, said Mr Wong.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) G Kannan said coercion was unlikely as Fong had provided not one but three confessions - two on Nov 29, 2008 and the third on Feb 10, 2009. Refuting Mr Wong's arguments that the officer's total credibility has been called into question by the 14 charges, DPP Kannan said the alleged offences had occurred within 12 minutes in a single day in November 2009. 'This should not be allowed to taint all of his work as a police officer,' the prosecutor added.

Justice Choo Han Teck will deliver his decision on Wednesday.

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High court judge disallows new evidence in poisoning case
By Ng Jing Yng | Posted: 25 May 2011 1414 hrs

SINGAPORE: The High Court has disallowed an application to admit new evidence by the lawyer of an elderly woman who's appealing against her conviction and sentence for poisoning her husband.

Justice Choo Han Teck said the psychiatric report would not add value to the current debate of the case.

Fong Quay Sim's lawyer, Mr Wendell Wong, had also wanted to admit new evidence on the 14 charges against police officer Sheik Faisal Shaik Abdul Kader Ali who investigated the case.

But Justice Choo said that it will be a disciplinary matter and it will be unfair to paint Sheik Faisal as a rogue cop.

Mr Wong had argued that the Fong's written confession was abrupt.

And that the behaviour of the investigating officer then also cast doubts on whether the confession was coerced.

Appealing against both the sentencing and conviction, Mr Wong argued that the earlier trial process did not give due consideration to earlier denials made by Fong and the trial judge only gave weight to her later confession.

He also said that Sheik Faisal could have threatened Fong as it was a sudden confession at the end of the letter after writing at length about family issues.

Mr Wong also questioned the medical report about the arsenic poisoning of Fong's husband as it did not draw conclusions on who caused the poisoning and how the poisoning could have come about.

He also urged the court to place a lighter sentence on Fong if her conviction is upheld.

He cited Fong's depressive condition and her lack of intention to want her husband dead.

The state prosecution will give their submissions when hearing resumes in the afternoon.

69-year-old Fong was sentenced to a year's jail for poisoning her husband.

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Court rejects appeal by elderly who poisoned hubby
Posted: 12 August 2011 1753 hrs

SINGAPORE: The High Court on Friday dismissed the appeal by the elderly woman who had been sentenced to one-year jail for poisoning her 73-year-old husband with arsenic.

Fong Quay Sim, 71, poisoned Mr Chan Tin Sun by lacing his food with arsenic between 2004 and 2005 in their Siglap home. Her trial ended in May last year.

In his grounds of decision, Justice Choo Han Teck said the medical evidence was clear, reasonable, and undisputed. The damage to Mr Chan was caused by arsenic.

He added that Fong was the only one who had access to Mr Chan's food and had the motive to poison him.

Justice Choo also noted that Fong had also made incriminating statements in three statements over two separate occasions.

Justice Choo earlier noted that Fong had questioned the credibility of the investigating officer who was later charged with using the police force's computer system to make unauthorised database searches for his own use.

Justice Choo said he disallowed the evidence regarding this because it would not have had a significant influence on the outcome of the appeal.

On whether the sentence was "manifestly excessive", Justice Choo noted that District Judge Ng Peng Hong had considered Fong's old age, deep vein thrombosis, hypertension and unhappy marital life.

However, he noted that Mr Chan had suffered anaemia and liver cirrhosis from the poisoning.

Justice Choo said: "It was not a one-off incident but was planned and carried out periodically over a long period of time."

Given that the penalty for the offence is a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine, the one-year sentence was not manifestly excessive, said Justice Choo.

Fong, who was in court with her son on Friday, asked for a one-month deferment of her sentence to settle divorce matters.

Justice Choo granted her request. She will start serving her sentence next month.

- CNA/ir