SINGAPORE - A man who strangled a 28-year-old nurse in a jealous rage and tried to have sex with her corpse told police after his arrest that he spent money on her for years but ended up with"nothing", the High Court heard on Thursday .
He admitted in police statements that on the day he killed her, he became angry on hearing she was going out with another man and was still in contact with her former boyfriend in China with whom she had been physically intimate. On Thursday, asked for his opinion on Boh's account to the police, Institute of Mental Health forensic psychiatrist Stephen Phang said the accused was in a"cool, deliberate, contemplative" state of mind before he strangled the victim.
In the immediate aftermath of the killing, he was able to make plans to flee to his home town of Melaka, to phone his landlord to ascertain that he would not be coming to the flat that night, and to go out to buy a suitcase and to collect his salary. Boh repeatedly maintained to Dr Phang that he had acted in a moment of impulse and anger."In layman's terms, he got angry, he lost his temper at that moment," the psychiatrist said.