No intent to kill teen

PRIVATE bus driver Ong Pang Siew denied that his act of strangling his stepdaughter was deliberate and intentional.

The 46-year-old, accused of murdering 15-year-old Ong Pan Hui, told the High Court on Tuesday that when he squeezed the teen's neck, it did not occur to him then that he would cause her death. Neither did he know how much force he had applied.

Ong said this when he was cross-examined by Deputy Public Prosecutor Amarjit Singh on the fifth day of his murder trial.

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