Today: Man on trial for murdering elderly father had schizophrenia, choked him in front of paramedics

SINGAPORE — When paramedics arrived at a Bedok North flat in 2015, they found 75-year-old Tan Ah Hin on the ground with a slow and weak heartbeat. 

His son, Tan Kok Meng, was covered in dried blood, and later strangled the older man for a minute or two as the helpless paramedics watched. The older Tan later died in hospital. Tan Kok Meng, 46, began standing trial in the High Court on Tuesday (Aug 11) for killing his father. He faces a murder charge, which carries the death penalty or life imprisonment.

He is accused of strangling his father and inflicting multiple blows on the older man’s face on Nov 13, 2015.