Daryati killed Seow Kim Choo at her Telok Kurau house on June 7, 2016. - ST FILE
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News The Court of Appeal on Thursday (March 31) upheld the murder conviction of an Indonesian domestic worker who was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for stabbing and slashing her employer more than 90 times in 2016.
The three-judge court dismissed the appeal of 29-year-old Daryati, whose lawyer argued that she should be convicted of culpable homicide instead of murder, as she was suffering from persistent depressive disorder, which diminished her responsibility for her actions.
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