A Burmese maid who stabbed her male employer’s mother-in-law 26 times was initially sentenced to life imprisonment for murder but had her charge reduced to manslaughter after a successful appeal.

The defendant, Zin Mar Nwe, 24, was charged with murdering her employer’s 70-year-old mother-in-law on 25 Jun 2018 in a HDB flat in the west of Singapore.

The case went to trial in November 2021, with the High Court judge finding Zin Mar Nwe guilty of murder and sentencing her to life imprisonment.