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At 4am on the day of the incident, widower Shoo Ah San rode his motorcycle and entered Singapore with the intention to kill his 42-year-old daughter, reported The Straits Times.
Shoo rode around Marsiling Lane, where his daughter lived, in the hopes of running into her while she was on the way to work.
At about 5am, Shoo — who worked as a lorry driver — saw his daughter walking towards a bus stop.
The father ran towards her, lifted his helmet visor, and stabbed her repeatedly.
During the assault, Shoo tried to aim for her neck but she managed to block it.
The father ran to his motorcycle after the ambush.
However, a passer-by noticed the daughter’s cry for help and came to assist her.
When Shoo saw his daughter sitting on the grass verge, he got down from his motorcycle and launched his second attack.
Following that, Shoo went to Kaki Bukit to look for his son who worked in the area as a mechanic.
The widower managed to avoid capture as he roamed around the area for five days.
Local police officers finally arrested him at a coffee shop not far away from his son’s workplace, reported TODAYonline.
The knife used to stab the daughter was seized during the arrest and the police found notes claiming that his children were not filial.
It is learnt that the man intended to carry the notes with him in his planned suicide.
According to AsiaOne, the daughter suffered 17 stabs in total. She suffered injuries to her chest, abdomen, back, shoulder, and arm.
She was rushed to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery.
She was in physiotherapy up until June this year. Currently, she does not face any issues in her day day-to-day activities. reported TODAYonline.
The Straits Times reported that Shoo initially rented the house and lived in it with his three children.
In 2000, the house was purchased under his daughter’s name as he was an undischarged bankrupt and his son was below the age of 21 at the time.
Shoo claimed that he paid for the house, but the court heard that it was the son who gave his father the money to buy the house and service the mortgage.
The father moved out of the house in 2007 to work in Melaka, but still returned to the house from time to time.
In 2016, the son changed the lock at the house as the father was said to have caused disruptions, such as removing the ancestral table from the house, reported CNA.
Three years later, the father broke into the house and wrote on the walls with red paint that he would kill his children.
He wrote that the daughter — whom he stabbed — was unfilial.
When Shoo saw the house was renovated, he assumed that it had been sold.
He then became fixated on killing the daughter, whom he assumed was the mastermind behind the idea of selling the house.
The father also despised her for not giving him money for living expenses, reported TODAYonline.
He initially planned to kill her between June and August 2019, but it was delayed due to his low earnings at the time.
On 16 January last year, he was pushed to commit the crime after his girlfriend kicked him out of her house, which rendered him homeless, reported The Straits Times.
He might face a second charge for carrying a weapon in public when the court metes out the sentence this Friday, 5 November.
Deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Zhou Yang urged the judge to send him to 16 to 18 years in jail as the crime was planned beforehand and there is no denying his malice due to stab locations.
Earlier, another DPP stressed that Shoo’s intent to murder was clear as he tried to aim for the daughter’s neck, reported The Straits Times.
Shoo’s lawyer then asked for leniency and sought 10 years’ imprisonment. He contended that any longer jail term would be life imprisonment due to his old age.
The lawyer said Shoo was “a very lonely and disgraced father” who was estranged from his family.
It is learnt that none of his children had visited him in prison.