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Singapore man jailed for killing after 28 years
Nov 29, 2011, 19:27 GMT
Singapore - A Singapore barber has been jailed for seven years for killing a man over a gambling debt in 1983, a media report said Tuesday.
Lee Hong Mun, 57, was 29 when he and a friend attacked Ng Tian Soo over a mahjong debt, stabbing him in the thigh, the Straits Times newspaper reported.
The friend was arrested and sentenced to seven years in 1985, but Lee fled to Hong Kong and Thailand, before sneaking back into Singapore in 1988 to reunite with his wife, the report said.
He raised two sons and lived an uneventful life as the owner of a hair salon, but was snatched during a routine police control at a betting outlet in April last year, and traced back to the crime.
He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, according to the report.
In sentencing Lee, the judge said, 'Living the best years of one's life with the Sword of Damocles hanging over one's head is, in itself, strong punishment.'
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