Woman Whose Hubby Chopped Off Her Hands And Feet: 'How Will I Look After My Kids Now?'
She was the family's sole breadwinner.
By Sadho Ram — 19 Dec 2014, 02:27 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
K. Menaga, a dishwasher and mother of three, whose unemployed husband, overcome by jealousy, chopped off her hands and feet and then hanged himself earlier this month, asked her brother:
How will I look after my children and pay for my house now?
thestar.com.myK. Ravichandran, the poor woman's brother, was at a loss to answer his grief-stricken sister's plea, who has regained consciousness following the attack on 11 December in Johor
Ravichandran said the family was still in shock and did not want to ask Menaga anything about the incident because she was depressed over her injuries.
He added that his sister knew her husband was dead but never talked about it.
She had just come home from work on Thursday when her husband N. Marimuthu confronted her with several allegations, which led to a heated argument between the two and then he viciously attacked her, chopping off both her hands and feet
Menaga returned home at around 11am on Thursday when she was confronted by the deranged husband, who accused her of having an affair with another man in Singapore.
This led to a heated argument when the husband took a meat cleaver and attacked the victim by chopping off her wrists and feet.
The husband then ran to the second floor and locked the door behind him where he drank poison before hanging himself at the balcony of the house.
Kluang OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Roze Shaari said initial investigations showed that jealousy was the cause behind the attack.
She was the family's sole breadwinner and worked as a dishwasher in Singapore to pay the household expenses, the children's education and her husband's dialysis treatment
A neighbour, who declined to be identified, claimed that the victim, K. Menaga, 44, had been working as a dishwasher at a hotel in Singapore and stayed at the republic for the past 15 years.
The neighbour said the victim was the family’s sole breadwinner as her 47-year-old husband was jobless.
“She only comes back once a month to see their three children and her mother-in-law, who has been taking care of their children, and also to give money to them. Every time she comes back, they will always quarrel because the husband accused her of having an affair with a man who sometimes sent her home from Singapore,” the neighbour said.
Ravichandran, the woman's brother, clearly upset, said:
What my brother-in-law did was cruel.
What happens to the children now?
What about his wife?
We didn't know he was capable of this.
He used to be a good and loving man who never hit his wife.
Menaga, who is currently being treated, is maimed for life and the family would need to hire a maid to help care for her
“Menaga cannot feed herself, take a bath or walk,” Ravichandran said. “She also does not have much savings. Most of that was used as downpayment for the house.”
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