By Khushwant Singh

DESCRIBED as a doting father, Eu Lim Hoklai was sentenced to death yesterday for murdering his China mistress - on Father's Day - three years ago.

Justice Kan Ting Chiu rejected the 56-year-old's claim that he acted in self-defence against Madam Yu Hongjin, 30.

She was killed in the Ang Mo Kio massage parlour she ran and forensic experts found few signs of a violent struggle, the judge said in his grounds of decision.

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