A man who killed his girlfriend's infant son by crushing his head against the floor of his van has been jailed for life.
Judges in Singapore's High Court heard how accused Mohamed Aliff Mohamed Yusoff, 29, had carried out the vile act after rowing with his girlfriend, and will now be caned.
Yusoff - who will also suffer 15 strokes of the cane after August 11 hearing - had claimed the baby had fallen from his arms in November 2019.
But at an earlier hearing the court heard that Yusoff had smashed the nine-month-old baby's head on the wooden floor of his vehicle at least twice.
The court had been told how the harrowing crime took place in a car park in Yishun when the baby - Izz Fayyaz Zayani Ahmad - was under his care.
Yusoff is said to have carried out the lethal attack just hours after he had argued with his girlfriend, Nadiah Abdul Jalil.
The infant's cause of death was given as blunt force trauma.
The prosecution had asked for life and 15 to 18 cane strokes, while the defence was not contesting the prison sentence but was seeking five to six cane strokes instead.
Judge Mavis Chionh agreed that the death penalty was not appropriate but noted that Yusoff's behaviour after the crime showed a "disturbing lack of remorse".
The court had heard how the defendant took 36 minutes to take the baby to hospital.
Jurors heard how he had told the tot's mother to recount his false version of events to medics.
Nadiah had even told the court how Yusoff had proposed to her that they pay someone to bury the tot on the sly and claim he had gone missing a year later.
