SINGAPORE, May 15 -- A 24-year-old domestic worker from Myanmar, Zin Mar Nwe, had her murder charge reduced to culpable homicide yesterday after her lawyers successfully argued that she had been provoked when she stabbed her employer's mother-in-law 26 times in 2018.

The Court of Appeal, led by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, accepted the defence's argument that the 70-year-old victim's threat to send the maid back to her agent constituted grave and sudden provocation that caused the then 17-year-old to lose self-control, The Straits Times reported.

Lawyer Josephus Tan argued that the threat carried significant weight as it represented a real possibility of being sent back to Myanmar because it would have been the third time within five ...