Singapore - A Singapore court sentenced a man to hang for hurling his wife to death from the 13th floor of an apartment block, media reports said Tuesday.

Tharema Vejayan Govindasamy, 40, was found guilty of murdering his 32-year-old wife after a night of drinking and a quarrel with her at a bus stop on July 1, 2007, and was given the death penalty, the Straits Times newspaper reported.

However, his lawyer said he would appeal the court's verdict.

Tharema and Smaelmeeral Abdul Aziz married in 2002, but the marriage went sour in 2006 after the couple's second child was born. Tharema repeatedly beat his wife.

After she found her husband in bed with another woman she eventually moved out of their flat, the report said.

On July 1, 2007, Tharema met his wife at a bus stop after she spent a night of clubbing. The couple began to argue.

Although Tharema claimed in court that he could not remember the events of that night because he had drunk heavily at a friend's birthday party, forensic evidence revealed that he hit his wife several times, dragged her to the 13th floor of the block and pushed her over a parapet wall.

Two days after the crime he surrendered himself to the police. (dpa)