Woman, 35, who hacked adoptive father to death in Sengkang loses appeal against 18-year jail sentence
She claimed that she killed her father as he had wanted to kill her.
Tan Qiu Yan, a 35-year-old woman, has been found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in prison for hacking her adoptive father to death in their Sengkang flat in 2022. Initially, she sought a reduced sentence of 12 to 15 years, arguing that her adoptive father, Tan Ah Bang, had threatened to kick her out of the flat and leave her homeless.
However, the Court of Appeal rejected this claim, emphasizing that she had never brought up this motive prior to the sentencing in July 2025. The court ruled that Tan's core motivation for the murder was her belief that her father was preventing her from obtaining a flat promised to her by her adoptive mother, who had passed away shortly before the incident.
Despite purchasing a chopper to buy time to carry out the crime, Tan was ultimately unable to control her actions, committing the brutal act 45 to 50 times before her father succumbed to the attack.
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