and cannot be validated as evidence, even if such could incriminate the suspect in an offence. However, Justice Lai overruled the defence's arguments and ruled in favour of the prosecution, ruling that as decreed by another section of the Evidence Act, a witness had every right to be summoned to court to testify against his or her spouse during a criminal proceeding. In testifying against her husband, Tee stated that on the day of the murder, Lim returned home after killing Tan and he told his wife he wanted to flee to Malaysia, since he was allegedly chased by illegal moneylenders over his debts. Tee, however, noticed something was amiss from the bloodstains found on Lim's feet, and she also similarly became suspicious over Lim's behaviour after they both went to Johor to seek refuge at Tee's family's home and later at other places before reaching Batu Pahat. After Tee confrontly probed her husband about what happened, Tee stated Lim admitted to killing Tan and described how he killed her by using a stick and brick to bludgeon her to death. On the stand, Tee additionally stated her husband was "more than a beast" and he should pay for his crime, and that she was compelled to tell the truth after embracing her newly-found Christian beliefs. The defence counsel argued that Tee, who initially did not tell police how her husband killed Tan or confessed, was not a consistent witness and had made up the entire story of Lim's supposed confession out of spite and hatred towards her husband for his abuse and to ensure he be sentenced to hang for murdering Tan, and they pointed out that there was the DNA of a third person being found at the crime scene, which raised the possibility of another person being responsible for killing Tan, and that the prosecution was wrong to reject Lim's claims of a killing due to monetary issues and proceeded with arguing that he had a motive to rape and kill Tan. In response, the prosecution rebutted that Lim had earlier confessed to using the brick, which was stained with Tan's blood, to hurl at Tan's face and caused hurt, and that there was no dispute that Tee had told both the police and court that her husband confessed to her that he murdered Tan using the brick, and this information was also made known to Tee's