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Jail for man who threatened to kill his maid after she rejected his romantic advances
Muhammad Khairulnaim Rosli pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal intimidation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill his maid on Jan 12, 2024.
Muhammad Khairulnaim Rosli pleaded guilty to one charge of criminal intimidation after pleading guilty to threatening to kill his maid in January 2024. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
SINGAPORE – After his romantic advances were rejected by his domestic helper, a man held up a knife and pointed it at her, threatening to kill her.
On June 16, Muhammad Khairulnaim Rosli, 37, was sentenced to 40 days’ jail after pleading guilty to one charge of criminal intimidation for threatening to kill the domestic helper on Jan 12, 2024.
The court heard that he had told the domestic helper he had developed feelings for her in December 2023, just three months into her employment. She lived in the same household as Khairulnaim, his wife and their two children.
Feeling disturbed and uncomfortable with her employer’s advances, the victim told him she did not like him and blocked him from her Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp accounts.
Undeterred, Khairulnaim told his wife that he harboured romantic feelings for their domestic helper, leading his wife to ask him for a divorce on Jan 1, 2024.
On the day of the incident, on Jan 12, 2024, Khairulnaim woke up from his afternoon nap and started to feel anger towards his domestic helper as he felt she had ruined his life.
Some time around 6pm that day, he went to the kitchen and picked up a knife with a 16cm blade, then walked out to the hallway to face his domestic helper.
He brandished the knife at her and threatened to kill her, before retreating into his bedroom.
Shortly after, the domestic helper slipped away from the flat and ran to the void deck as she feared for her safety.
A member of the public found her crying and made a police report on her behalf.
Khairulnaim was arrested on the same day.
During court proceedings on June 16, Khairulnaim initially disputed the prosecution’s charge, arguing that he had threatened to kill his domestic helper only verbally – without a knife.
When District Judge Lorraine Ho asked him to explain what he meant, he said he had taken the knife only after he had threatened to kill the victim, as a way to intimidate her further.
He added that he had not pointed the knife at her, and had instead taken it and walked back to his bedroom. But he later relented and admitted that the sequence of events read out by the prosecution was true.
In mitigation, Khairulnaim claimed to have since been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder at the Institute of Mental Health, and that he is currently seeking treatment.
He later said he was not relying on the medical report to suggest his diagnosis had any contributory links to the incident, and was simply using it to show remorse and to try to have his punishment mitigated.
The offence of criminal intimidation carries a jail term of up to seven years, a fine, or both.
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