Singapore sentences 86-year-old man to 15 years’ jail for hacking partner to death with chopper
- The ‘vicious’ 2019 attack by Pak Kian Huat on Lim Soi Moy, with whom he shared 4 children, left her with 54 injuries, including 31 wounds to her head
- A deputy public prosecutor said Pak had ‘committed the gravest form of domestic violence’ with his chopper attack
An 86-year-old Singaporean man who hacked his long-time romantic partner to death with a chopper has been sentenced to 15 years’ jail by a judge who called the killing “vicious” and “brutal”.
“It was a senseless attack on a defenceless victim and the attack was relentless and intense as can be seen on the horrifying number of injuries he inflicted on the victim,” Justice See Kee Oon said as he delivered the sentence.
Pak Kian Huat, also known as Pek Kiah Huat, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide on May 22.
The court heard that 79-year-old Lim Soi Moy suffered 54 injuries throughout her body including 31 injuries to her head. The force of Pak’s blows with the chopper left her with multiple fractured bones as well.
Pak was arrested on September 1, 2019 soon after killing Lim in their public housing flat in the neighbourhood of Toa Payoh.
Pak was set to plead guilty to culpable homicide in September last year, but disputed several facts of the case in an unusually heated court hearing.
These included the number of wounds he had inflicted on the victim and whether he had put on a pair of socks and slippers after attacking her.
