A junior prison officer who murdered one of his four girlfriends will now spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The High Court on Thursday sentenced Lim Wee Thong, 48, to life imprisonment and the maximum of 24 strokes

of the cane in light of the viciousness of his attack on Ms Loh Nyuk Moi, 48. Lim, a prison sergeant, was married

with a teenage son but had four girlfriends who gave him money to pay off his bills and loans from various banks.

In February 2011, he brutally stabbed Ms Loh, at the Yung Ping Road flat she had earlier sold off under an en

bloc scheme. She had 10 stab wounds in her body - three pierced the heart and two penetrated the lungs.

Her body was later found by her younger brother and uncle.

Around the time Ms Loh was killed, Lim withdrew $14,500 from her bank accounts. He was arrested several days

later at a shopping mall while he was out with another of his girlfriends.

He claimed after his arrest that she had stabbed herself.