After his then wife dragged their Myanmar maid to the kitchen toilet and poured water all over her body, police staff sergeant Kevin Chelvam entered the kitchen.
He glanced at the toilet where Gaiyathiri Murugayan and her mother, Prema S. Naraynasamy, towered over the maid, Ms Piang Ngaih Don.
But Chelvam simply folded his arms and did nothing.
A month after this 2016 incident, Ms Piang Ngaih Don, 24, would die at the hands of Gaiyathiri, 43, and Prema, 64, after a vicious assault.
This scene from closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera footage was played in court on Nov 29, the 10th day of Chelvam’s trial in the fatal maid abuse case.
Chelvam, 45, who has been suspended from the police force, was the registered employer of Ms Piang Ngaih Don.
The maid died on July 26, 2016, in his Bishan flat, following prolonged abuse while under his employment.
He is being tried for four charges, including one charge of voluntarily causing hurt and another charge of abetment of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Ms Piang Ngaih Don by starvation.
The other two charges are of giving false information to a police officer and removing CCTV cameras – which recorded the abuse – from his home.
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