Former IMH employee acquitted of murdering his own mother

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A former Institute of Mental Health employee was today acquitted of murdering his mother two years ago on grounds of temporary insanity.

Mr Mohamed Redha Abdul Mutalib, 32, abused cough mixture and a drug called Dexthromethorphan and was heavily intoxicated on the latter when he stabbed his mother, Mdm Asnah Aziz, multiple times at their Eunos Crescent flat on Jan 26, 2012.

He believed his mother to be a spirit and heard voices telling him to kill her.

After stabbing her, Mr Redha climbed out of the kitchen window into a neighbouring unit. He then climbed to the roof of the block of flats before returning to the neighbouring unit and taking S$374. He was found by SCDF officers in Strathmore Avenue in Queenstown and was later arrested.

Mr Redha was assessed by a psychiatrist to be of temporary unsound mind.

He pleaded not guilty to murder today (15 Jan) at the High Court and Justice Tay Yong Kwang acquitted him of the charge and ordered that he be kept in safe custody in Changi Prison, pending an order of the Home Affairs Minister that he be confined to a psychiatric institution or another suitable place.