AN INDIAN national was charged on Friday with the murder of a Filipino woman last Sunday.
Gopinathan Nair Remadevi Bijukumar, 34, is said to have caused the death of Ms Roselyn Reyes Pascua, 30, in a room at a fifth-floor unit at Peony Mansion, Bencoolen Street, between 7pm and 8pm that day.
Ms Pascua, who was here on a social visit pass, was found stabbed several times in the chest in her unlocked rented room.
Bijukumar is remanded at Central police division lock-up.
If convicted, he faces the mandatory death penalty.
He will appear in court on Friday.
