By Selina Lum

THE China-born wife of opposition politician Tan Lead Shake was on Tuesday jailed 16 years for killing her brother-in-law and trying to kill her sister-in-law.

In the early hours of June 28 last year, Wu Yun Yun, 27, stabbed her husband's younger brother, Mr Tan Lead Sane, 33, a computer engineer, and his wife, Madam Huang Meizhe, 36, also a Chinese national. He died shortly after.

Prosecutors had pressed for Wu to be jailed for life for the killing, but the High Court decided that her case did not warrant an indeterminate sentence.

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