Man jailed 10 years for killing wife at Choa Chu Kang flat
An unemployed Chinese national was jailed 10 years on Monday (Nov 2) for killing his wife on Aug 8, 2013.
Hu Ziqing, now 61, pleaded guilty in court to one count of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
He strangled beautician, Liu Bi Jiao,41, also a Chinese national, in their three-room rented flat at Block 296A Choa Chu Kang Avenue 2 at around 4am that day.
The couple quarrelled after he had asked his wife to quit her job here and return to China with him.
When she refused to, they got into a scuffle and Hu strangled her to death.
Read the full report in our print edition on Nov 3.
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