<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>This bitch obviously married him to get citizenship and later divorced him to get half his assets! Can see how angry he is to be driven to such violence. Just that he took it on an innocent girl.
Oct 1, 2008
MARSILING MURDER TRIAL
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>'I wanted ex-wife to feel the pain'
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Accused told cop he killed stepdaughter so ex-spouse can experience losing a loved one </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Selina Lum
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A BUS driver on trial for the murder of his stepdaughter told a policeman minutes after his arrest that he had killed her because he wanted his former wife to know the pain he felt after their divorce and the agony of losing a loved one.
Ong Pang Siew (right), 46, was still sitting by the body of the dead teenager when the police arrived at the scene last October. He was fiddling with his phone and reeked of alcohol.
He told a police sergeant that he had apologised to 15-year-old Pan Hui while strangling her and told her he had been 'left with no choice'.
Sergeant Chng Chee Wee took the stand yesterday, on Day Two of Ong's murder trial, to recount what he had seen and heard at the Marsiling flat of Ong's former wife, Ms Xiu Yanhong.
Ong faces the mandatory death penalty if convicted of the murder, which took place on Oct 20 last year.
Sgt Chng testified that Ong had told him he had gone to Ms Xiu's flat that day, a Saturday, to look for their five-year-old son, to whom he had access on weekends.
Neither was in, so Ong phoned Ms Xiu to ask where the boy was. A row broke out between the couple.
Ong told Sgt Chng that he had not intended to kill Pan Hui when he had come to the flat, but was provoked by the quarrel with his China-born former wife.
The court heard that after the killing, Ong not only phoned Ms Xiu to tell her that he had strangled Pan Hui to death, but he also called his older brother and employer.
Ong told his brother that he wanted to jump from the eighth-floor flat as he was at his wits' end - his wife had cheated him of his money and would not allow him access to his son.
Also taking the stand yesterday were three of Ong's buddies, who had been drinking with him before he went to his former wife's home.
They said that Ong did not appear drunk that day.
They said he had complained that his former wife refused to let him see their son, he suspected she was having affairs, and his stepdaughter did not respect him.
Yesterday, Ong got to see his son after more than a year, when Ms Xiu took the boy to court.
Although they sat apart from her former husband's siblings in the public gallery, the boy occasionally wandered over to his relatives to play.
He complied when his mother told him to wave to Ong, who then made funny faces at his son.
Family members were allowed 15 minutes with Ong after the court session ended.
But his son resisted attempts to coax him to the dock. He kept shaking his head and eventually had to be carried by Ms Xiu for Ong to see him up close. [email protected]
Oct 1, 2008
MARSILING MURDER TRIAL
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>'I wanted ex-wife to feel the pain'
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Accused told cop he killed stepdaughter so ex-spouse can experience losing a loved one </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Selina Lum
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A BUS driver on trial for the murder of his stepdaughter told a policeman minutes after his arrest that he had killed her because he wanted his former wife to know the pain he felt after their divorce and the agony of losing a loved one.
Ong Pang Siew (right), 46, was still sitting by the body of the dead teenager when the police arrived at the scene last October. He was fiddling with his phone and reeked of alcohol.
He told a police sergeant that he had apologised to 15-year-old Pan Hui while strangling her and told her he had been 'left with no choice'.
Sergeant Chng Chee Wee took the stand yesterday, on Day Two of Ong's murder trial, to recount what he had seen and heard at the Marsiling flat of Ong's former wife, Ms Xiu Yanhong.
Ong faces the mandatory death penalty if convicted of the murder, which took place on Oct 20 last year.
Sgt Chng testified that Ong had told him he had gone to Ms Xiu's flat that day, a Saturday, to look for their five-year-old son, to whom he had access on weekends.
Neither was in, so Ong phoned Ms Xiu to ask where the boy was. A row broke out between the couple.
Ong told Sgt Chng that he had not intended to kill Pan Hui when he had come to the flat, but was provoked by the quarrel with his China-born former wife.
The court heard that after the killing, Ong not only phoned Ms Xiu to tell her that he had strangled Pan Hui to death, but he also called his older brother and employer.
Ong told his brother that he wanted to jump from the eighth-floor flat as he was at his wits' end - his wife had cheated him of his money and would not allow him access to his son.
Also taking the stand yesterday were three of Ong's buddies, who had been drinking with him before he went to his former wife's home.
They said that Ong did not appear drunk that day.
They said he had complained that his former wife refused to let him see their son, he suspected she was having affairs, and his stepdaughter did not respect him.
Yesterday, Ong got to see his son after more than a year, when Ms Xiu took the boy to court.
Although they sat apart from her former husband's siblings in the public gallery, the boy occasionally wandered over to his relatives to play.
He complied when his mother told him to wave to Ong, who then made funny faces at his son.
Family members were allowed 15 minutes with Ong after the court session ended.
But his son resisted attempts to coax him to the dock. He kept shaking his head and eventually had to be carried by Ms Xiu for Ong to see him up close. [email protected]
