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SINGAPORE – Unhappy with how his son-in-law had treated his daughter and believing that it was part of a plan to cheat him of his business, the semi-retired founder of a shipping company repeatedly stabbed the younger man in front of a lunchtime crowd in the Central Business District three years ago.
Before the police arrived, Tan Nam Seng phoned his daughter to tell her what he had done.
“I can’t sleep at night. I have done it. I have killed him. Don’t cry. I am old already. I am not scared (of) going to jail,” he told her.
On Thursday (Aug 20), Tan, 72, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide for stabbing 39-year-old Spencer Tuppani in the chest three times outside a Telok Ayer Street coffee shop at about 1.20pm on July 10, 2017.
CCTV footage was played in court showing Tan attacking Mr Tuppani, who was having lunch with three friends at the coffee shop.
Footage was also shown of Mr Tuppani running away after being stabbed and then collapsing in front of a restaurant on Boon Tat Street.
Tan was seen in the footage kicking Mr Tuppani twice in the face and chasing passers-by away.
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