"I have done something bad to my son," repeated Philippe Graffart as he confessed his guilt to a police officer at a vending machine outside the Bukit Timah Neighbourhood Police Centre.
The Belgian man, who admitted to killing his five-year-old son in Singapore, was spared from execution by hanging on Monday, after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide.
The 42-year-old was originally charged with murder, a capital offence, but was found by a Singapore government psychiatrist to be suffering from a "major depressive disorder".