SINGAPORE, Oct 12 — A 19-year-old was charged in court today with the murder of his 47-year-old father in Yishun earlier this week.
Sylesnar Seah Jie Kai is accused of killing Eddie Seah Wee Teck around 7pm on Monday evening between the fourth and fifth floors of Block 653, Yishun Avenue 4.He is currently represented by defence counsels Sunil Sudheesan and Joyce Khoo from law firm Quahe Woo & Palmer. The teenager appeared in court via a video-link dressed in a white polo shirt. He appeared expressionless when a police prosecutor asked for him to be remanded at the Central Police Division for a week.
District Judge Terence Tay ordered Sudheesan to prepare written submissions on the issue of gaining access to Seah, and provide them to the prosecution.If convicted of murder under Section 302 of the Penal Code, he could be given the death penalty, or life imprisonment with caning.yesterday that he heard the household having loud arguments in the past, but that things were peaceful in the last six months and he recently saw them spending time outside together.
The police previously said that officers received a call for assistance around 7pm and found the older man lying motionless outside a residential unit.understands that his body was found not on the fifth floor of the block where he lived, but on the fourth floor.visited the block at around 11am on Tuesday, three workers from the estate’s town council were washing the corridor and painting over bloodstains on the walls.
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