Bangladeshi worker to be hanged for murdering girlfriend

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s High Court sentenced to death on Friday a Bangladeshi construction worker involved in a love triangle with an Indonesian maid for murdering the woman more than two years ago.
Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, was found guilty of strangling his girlfriend, Indonesian maid Yulia Afriyanti, 25, on December 16, 2007.
“The prosecution has proved its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The accused is found guilty and convicted on the charge against him, and shall suffer the mandatory death sentence,” High Court Judge Kan Ting Chiu said in his verdict.
Singapore carries out the death penalty by hanging.
The city-state has been criticised by human rights groups like Amnesty International for imposing the death penalty for certain offences like murder and drug dealing, but Singapore says this is necessary to deter crime.
Afriyanti’s naked body was found stuffed in a cardboard box at a construction site where Kamrul had worked.
It emerged during the trial that the woman was also seeing another man while maintaining her relationship with the Bangladeshi.
The judge said there was “strong circumstantial evidence” to prove the accused had strangled his victim.
Abdul Quddus’ fingerprints were found at the crime scene and DNA tests showed he had sex with the woman before her death.
The evidence “leads inevitably and inexorably to the conclusion that the accused had strangled the deceased,” the judge said. Source