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Death row's angel of hope

Short film on nun who counselled inmates facing gallows sheds new light on last days of two 'holy wives' in Adrian Lim child murders

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Janice Tai

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A painful moment comes midway through Chai Yee Wei's new short film, Sister, when the sister of a murder victim confronts the nun who has been counselling the murderer's accomplices.
"Why do you have to do this? Why do you have to counsel someone who has done so much evil?" Margaret Ng, then in her late teens, pleads with Sister Gerard Fernandez. "How could you help them?"
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