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Friday, July 18, 2025

DPP orders release of woman who confessed to stabbing man

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A 27-year-old woman who con­fessed to fa­tal­ly stab­bing a Ch­agua­nas fa­ther of three af­ter a do­mes­tic dis­pute last week­end has been re­leased by po­lice. Yes­ter­day, in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived in­struc­tions from the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions to re­lease the woman who killed 28-year-old An­tho­ny Lee Sing.

Po­lice said al­though she was re­leased their in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing. On Sat­ur­day, po­lice re­spond­ed to neigh­bours' re­ports of the screams com­ing from Lee Sing's Sushilla Dri­ve, Chase Vil­lage home, and found Lee Sing's corpse in a pool of blood in a cor­ri­dor. He bore stab wounds to the chest, ab­domen and hands.

At­tor­ney for the ac­cused woman Lar­ry Williams said the po­lice re­port was tak­en to the DPP on Wednes­day for in­struc­tions. Al­though un­sure about the rea­son for her re­lease, Williams said the ev­i­dence, the wit­ness state­ments, and the woman's med­ical re­ports showed she act­ed in self-de­fence.

"I spoke to the po­lice of­fi­cer yes­ter­day and he told me that the file went to the DPP on Wednes­day and she was re­leased to­day. The on­ly thing I can as­sume is that they came to the con­clu­sion that the killing may be self-de­fence.

"The oth­er thing is that they have on­ly 72 hours to in­ves­ti­gate while they keep some­one in cus­tody. Any­thing longer than 72 hours, they have no choice but to re­lease the per­son. How­ev­er, they can con­tin­ue to in­ves­ti­gate and months af­ter they can make an ar­rest again," Williams said.


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