SINGAPORE - A domestic worker from Indonesia who stabbed her employer more than 90 times at her Telok Kurau house nearly five years ago was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on Friday (April 23). The High Court convicted Daryati, who goes by one name, a second time of murdering Madam Seow Kim Choo after rejecting her defence that she was suffering from a mental disorder that reduced her responsibility for the killing. Madam Seow, 59, was killed on June 7, 2016. She had 94 knife wounds, most of which were on her head and neck. Daryati, 28, had originally faced a charge under Section 300(a) of the Penal Code, for killing with the intention to cause death, which carries the mandatory death penalty. Partway through the trial, which was heard for 17 days between April 23, 2019 and March 4 last year, the prosecution reduced the charge to murder under Section 300(c). The reduced charge carries life imprisonment or the death sentence, but prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty. After she was convicted of the lesser charge, Daryati changed her mind and wanted to run the defence of diminished responsibility to further reduce the charge to culpable homicide. The ...