Director gets 15 years for manslaughter

A director of a filming and advertising company was sentenced to 15 years' jail for manslaughter.
High Court judge Lim Yee Lan ordered S. Kanagaratnam, 44, to serve his sentence from the date of his arrest.

On Feb 13, the father of three had pleaded guilty to an amended charge of culpable homicide against his wife, P.Vimalathevi between 11pm on Feb 15, 2003 and 4am the next day at their home in Kepong.

He had used a whiskey bottle to hit his wife.