diminished responsibility defence, stating that Indra should be spared the murder charge since he was unable to fully control himself when he commit the murder and was not conscious of his actions at the time. However, the prosecution directed the court's attention to the cold blooded and violent nature of the crime, stating that Indra had the clear intention to murder Loo, and was fully conscious of his actions, and they said that being a drug abuser, Indra could not have been easily intoxicated by the amount of alcohol and drugs he consumed and hence, they sought a guilty verdict of murder in Indra's case. Verdict and aftermath On 6 February 1995, 22-year-old Indra Wijaya Ibrahim was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death. Justice S. Rajendran, the trial judge, found that Indra was not suffering from diminished responsibility when he killed Loo, and he stated there was no evidence to support Indra's supposed consumption of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crime, despite acknowledging Indra as a drug abuser. He pointed out that even if Indra had really consumed them, he would not have been sufficiently impaired to the extent that he did not know what he was doing at the time of the murder. Had it been a frenzied attack, the injuries would have been all over Loo's body rather than being concentrated at her neck, which showed Indra was clearly intending to cause Loo's death during the robbery. By law, Indra automatically received the death penalty upon his conviction, since it was the mandatory sentence for murder under the law and the trial judge had no discretion to sentence him to any other punishment for murder. When Loo's 87-year-old husband Chang Song Lian, her nine children and all her relatives heard that Indra was sentenced to death, all of them were glad to hear that justice was served and felt that the sentence was fair. Loo's 41-year-old son and commodities trader Chang Tian Kian stated his mother's killer "deserved it" and said it was a trauma for his nephews to witness her corpse. However, the whole family remained miserable about Loo's killing, especially Loo's husband who had been wheelchair-bound. Before his wife was killed, Chang, who was married with Loo for fifty years and had nine children and more than twenty grandchildren together, was still able to walk with a cane and his wife's