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15-08-2023, 08:30 PM
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Upper Bukit Timah killings: Father sentenced to 14 years' jail for strangling twin sons with autism
Lydia Lam
SINGAPORE: A man was sentenced on Tuesday (Aug 15) to 14 years' jail for killing his twin sons (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/upper-bukit-timah-deaths-father-handed-charge-murdering-second-son-ethan-aston-yap-xavier-yap-jung-houn-greenridge-crescent-playground-canal-2505651) in January 2022, in a tragedy that shook the nation (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/11-year-old-brothers-father-murder-death-greenridge-crescent-prayer-crescent-2453986).
Xavier Yap Jung Houn claimed that he did so because he felt his wife had given up on the two 11-year-old boys, who had autism, and that killing them would take away his wife's burdens.
He also feared that his sons...
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Upper Bukit Timah killings: Father sentenced to 14 years' jail for strangling twin sons with autism
Lydia Lam
SINGAPORE: A man was sentenced on Tuesday (Aug 15) to 14 years' jail for killing his twin sons (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/upper-bukit-timah-deaths-father-handed-charge-murdering-second-son-ethan-aston-yap-xavier-yap-jung-houn-greenridge-crescent-playground-canal-2505651) in January 2022, in a tragedy that shook the nation (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/11-year-old-brothers-father-murder-death-greenridge-crescent-prayer-crescent-2453986).
Xavier Yap Jung Houn claimed that he did so because he felt his wife had given up on the two 11-year-old boys, who had autism, and that killing them would take away his wife's burdens.
He also feared that his sons...
Read more (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/sinkie-jailed-14-years-for-killing-jiakliaobee-autistic-twin-sons.346593/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/sinkie-jailed-14-years-for-killing-jiakliaobee-autistic-twin-sons.346593/).