Global InformationMurder of Chitrabathy Narayanasamy information
Chitrabathy Narayanasamy | |
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| Born | Chitrabathy d/o Narayanasamy 18 April 1965 Singapore, Malaysia |
| Died | 17 May 2004 (aged 39) Tuas, Singapore |
| Cause of death | Murdered |
| Nationality | Malaysian (18 April 1965 – 9 August 1965) Singaporean (9 August 1965 – 17 May 2004) |
| Other names | Chitra |
| Occupation | Factory worker (former) |
| Employer(s) | Pelmac (?? – 1987) Sony(1993 – 2004) |
| Known for | Murder victim |
| Spouse | G. Krishnasamy Naidu |
| Children | 2 |
On 17 May 2004, 39-year-old Chitrabathy Narayanasamy was brutally murdered by her 43-year-old husband G. Krishnasamy Naidu, a taxi driver who was then released on bail for an earlier incident of stabbing his wife twice the month before her death. Krishnasamy, who surrendered himself nine hours after the killing, was charged with murdering Chitrabathy.
During his trial, which dragged on for a year since May 2005, Krishnasamy revealed that throughout the past two decades of his marriage with Chitrabathy, his wife had been involved in at least four extramarital affairs with other men, and just earlier in the same year he killed Chitrabathy, Krishnasamy once again suspected that his wife had another affair based on some uncorroborated circumstantial evidence he uncovered, and it manifested into his gradual violent behavior towards his wife and finally led to him murdering Chitrabathy by hacking her with a chopper several times outside her workplace.
It was further revealed that Krishnasamy was suffering from morbid jealousy, a delusional disorder that caused him to behave irrationally based on unfounded suspicions regarding his wife's infidelity and thus impaired his mental faculties at the time of the offence. Although Krishnasamy was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty after the High Court found him guilty of murder, the Court of Appeal unanimously allowed Krishnasamy's appeal and hence reduced his murder conviction to one of manslaughter, and commuted his death sentence to life in prison.