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	Philippe Marcel Guy Graffart pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.</div>
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	Local newspaper The Straits Times reported that he had been accused of killing his son by pressing a cushion over his head, suffocating him.</div>
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	Graffart was head of the Singapore investment management arm of Nordea, and was believed to have been fighting his wife for custody of his son.&nbsp;</div>
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	The boy was found dead on 6 October last year, after Graffart turned up at a local police post with injuries.&nbsp;</div>
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	The Straits Times reported that, after the death of his son, Graffart had tried to commit suicide by crashing his car into a tunnel on the expressway.</div>
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	Graffart had initially been facing a murder charge which attracts the mandatory death penalty, but the prosecution told the State Courts in March that they would amend the charge to culpable homicide if he chose to plead guilty.</div>
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	Sentencing will take place on 22 August. The maximum sentence varies according to the presence of an intention to cause death.</div>
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	- DPA</div>

Belgian man in Singapore pleads guilty to killing his son

Singapore - A Belgian expatriate in Singapore is set for sentencing after he admitted causing the death of his five-year-old son last October, local press reported Monday.