The Supreme Court was not convinced by the man's argument that he had no intention to kill and that after pouring oil on his wife and starting a fire, he had tried to extinguish the fire by pouring water over her.
IPOH: A Myanmar national has been sentenced to 32 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane by the Ipoh High Court for the murder of his colleague three years ago.
In a case of circumstantial evidence, the chain of evidence has to be complete in all respects and also exclude any other theory, the Supreme Court emphasised recently while acquitting a man in a 22-year-old murder case.