18 Years' Jail For Murder
Sydney Morning Herald
Friday August 20, 1993
A 26-year-old apprentice mechanic who stabbed his former girlfriend's de facto husband with a sharpened screwdriver 56 times was sentenced yesterday to a maximum of 18 years' jail.
Justice James , in the Supreme Court, said Gil Dimaculangan, of Northmead, was found guilty in June last year of murdering Mr Meng Po Ngiam at a house in Baulkham Hills on April 6, 1992.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable driving causing death after he veered across a road on the night of the murder and collided with an oncoming car, killing one of its passengers.
Justice James said Elmer Lim , 27, of Harris Park, was also found guilty of murdering Mr Ngiam after stabbing him.
Justice James sentenced Dimaculangan to a minimum of 12 years and six months' jail. Lim was sentenced to a minimum of 11 years' jail.
© 1993 Sydney Morning Herald