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23-year-old alleged killer may have ADHD
By Ong Dai Lin, TODAY |
Posted: 12 November 2009 0733 hrs
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SINGAPORE: He had been "active" since he was a year old, and even needed to be tied with a rope to be kept in one place.
In primary school, his teachers complained that he could not sit still for more than five minutes. That was the picture Pathip Selvan Sugumaran's mother painted of her son as a boy.
Pathip, 23, is on trial for stabbing his girlfriend Jeevitha Panippan, 18, to death on July 7 last year.
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