A WOMAN accused of poisoning her husband with arsenic had confessed to the police she had done it because he beat her and she was angry and depressed.
But at Fong Quay Sim's trial on Friday, her lawyer sought to throw out her confession, saying she had been coerced.
Fong is in the dock for causing her husband to consume arsenic between 2004 and 2005. She told the investigating officer that she was angry and depressed because of her 70-year-old husband, retired contractor Chan Tin Sun.
The woman, who turned 68 yesterday, had admitted she had poured ant-killer into her husband's tea whenever he beat her up and she felt stressed.
But her lawyer, Mr Looi Wan Hui, is challenging the admissibility of the confession she penned on Oct 29 last year as well as two other statements made afterwards. He took issue with the last paragraph of the confession, which stated: 'Whenever he beat me up I was so stressful that I put in anti-ants...
'I might have given anti-ants in the morning about end of 2004, 2005.'
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