Singapore News - A man who strangled his former fiancee in a budget hotel in Geylang in 2018 was hanged on Feb 28. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said the capital sentence was carried out on Bangladeshi national Ahmed Salim, 35, who had petitioned to the President for clemency but was. Read more at www.tnp.sg
SINGAPORE A man who strangled his former fiancee in a budget hotel in Geylang in 2018 was hanged on Feb 28. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said the capital sentence was carried out on Bangladeshi national Ahmed Salim, 35, who had petitioned to the President for clemency but was unsuccessful. This is the first judicial execution for murder in.
In mid-2018, Ms Nurhidayati began a relationship with Mr Shamin Shamizur Rahman, a Bangladeshi plumber.
Upon knowing this, Ahmed asked his friend and mother to help him look for a wife in Bangladesh.
The pair reconciled sometime around July 2018 and continued seeing each other despite Ahmed s betrothal.
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The pair also quarrelled over Ms Nurhidayati s relationship with Mr Shamin, and on one occasion, Ahmed pressed a towel on the victim s mouth during a quarrel.
Sometime in late 2018, Ms Nurhidayati started talking to another man, Mr Hanifa Mohammad Abu, a Bangladeshi general fitter working here.
She told Ahmed she had a new boyfriend and that he should return to Bangladesh for his arranged marriage.
December 14, 2020
Ahmed Salim murdered his girlfriend in a room at the Golden Dragon Hotel on Dec 30, 2018.
Lianhe Wanbao
SINGAPORE - A Bangladeshi painter was sentenced to death on Monday (Dec 14) after he was found guilty of murdering his Indonesian girlfriend.
He killed her for refusing to leave a new man she was seeing.
Ahmed Salim, 31, had strangled domestic worker Nurhidayati Wartono Surata in a room at the Golden Dragon Hotel in Geylang on the evening of Dec 30, 2018.
On Monday, Judicial Commissioner Mavis Chionh convicted Ahmed of a charge of murder, which carries the mandatory death penalty.
Ahmed did not react as the judge gave him a death sentence.