List of major crimes in Singapore (2000–present)

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For crimes committed before 2000, see List of major crimes in Singapore (before 2000).
This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information.

The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore that happened in 2000 and beyond. They are arranged in chronological order.

2000s[]

2000[]

  • 7 February 2000: 27-year-old Linda Chua, a finance executive, was brutally assaulted and raped at Bukit Batok Nature Park while jogging there. She died eight days later on 14 February 2000. As of July 2021, the case remains unsolved.[1]
  • 8 and 26 August 2000: On the morning of 8 August, 34-year-old Wan Kamil bin Md Shafian, 35-year-old Ibrahim bin Mohd and 30-year-old Rosli bin Ahmat intended to commit armed robbery. They targeted a taxi driven by 42-year-old Koh Ngiap Yong and told him to drive to Chestnut Drive before handcuffing him. Kamil ordered Rosli to stab Koh with a bayonet before they unlocked the handcuffs. In the process, they dropped a handcuff key. They drove to Woodlands, where they planned to commit robbery but eventually backed out due to the presence of CCTVs. Koh's body was discovered the following morning, but the murder was unsolved due to a lack of leads until another murder occurred on the evening of 26 August. Kamil and Ibrahim had robbed and fatally shot 39-year-old Jagabar Sathik, a money changer, at an overhead bridge in Jalan Kukoh. The police traced the stolen phone from the deceased Sathik to Kamil and Ibrahim. All three of them were arrested on 15 October 2000 by the police tactical unit STAR. Koh's murder was traced to them when the handcuffs and keys recovered at Kamil's flat did not tally with each other. On 5 September 2001, all three of them were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by High Court judge . On 7 March 2002, the Court of Appeal turned down their appeals and all three of them were eventually hanged on 25 October 2002.[2][3][4][5]

2001[]

  • 14 May 2001: 34-year-old Anthony Ler Wee Teang made headlines in Singapore in 2001 for hiring a youth to assassinate his wife, 30-year-old Annie Leong Wai Mun, who was in the midst of divorcing him, so that he could become the sole owner of their flat and gain custody of their four-year-old daughter. Ler approached four youths and offered them a reward of S$100,000 to kill Leong. A 15-year-old boy whom Ler had known for five years accepted the offer. Ler threatened and manipulated the youth to carry out the deed and after several failed attempts, the youth fatally stabbed Leong with a knife given to him by Ler. The boy, in view of his age, was not named to protect his identity. Ler, who was seen smiling throughout the court proceedings and in the media, was eventually convicted of masterminding the murder and sentenced to death by High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang on 5 December 2001. Ler appealed to the Court of Appeal but failed; President S. R. Nathan also rejected his plea for clemency. As such, Ler was eventually hanged in Changi Prison on 13 December 2002. The youth, due to his age, was spared the gallows and indefinitely detained under the President's Pleasure for 17 years for committing murder. The youth had been released since 2 December 2018 but a gag order remains in force to protect his identity.[6][7]
  • 30–31 May 2001: A 17-year-old football player, Sulaiman bin Hashim, was brutally assaulted and murdered by eight members of the street gang Salakau, led by their 21-year-old leader Norhisham bin Mohamad Dahlan, outside a pub at South Bridge Road. Six gang members were found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rioting, voluntarily causing grievous hurt, or any combination of these charges. One of them, Muhamad Hasik bin Sahar, was sentenced to life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane, while the rest, including the mastermind Norhisham, received jail terms of between ten years and three years, as well as between 16 and six strokes of the cane. As of July 2021, two other gang members – Sharulhawzi bin Ramly and Muhammad Syamsul Ariffin bin Brahim – are still at large.[8]
  • 10 August 2001: 33-year-old businessman Tay Teng Joo was kidnapped one day before his wedding by 45-year-old Chng Teo Heng and two accomplices, 52-year-old Agnes Ng Lei Eng and 42-year-old Ng Soon Teck. They blindfolded him and drove him around in a car while demanding a ransom of S$4 million from his family. The sum was eventually reduced to S$1.22 million and Tay was released. The police managed to arrest all the three kidnappers and recover the ransom. All three of them were found guilty of kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment. Chng was also sentenced to six strokes of the cane for using a knife during the kidnapping. Ng had asked the judge to give her the death penalty but the judge refused and sentenced her to life imprisonment.[9][10]
  • 2 October 2001: 16-year-old Gunasegaran Ramasamy robbed and stabbed 28-year-old Soh San in a lift at a HDB block in Bukit Batok. Soh died of her wounds while Gunasegaran fled with S$30. The case was unsolved despite appeals for eyewitnesses from an episode of the television series Crimewatch. Gunasegaran was arrested for committing other offences in the following years and the police did not know about his role in Soh's death. On 17 November 2013, out of guilt, a 28-year-old Gunasegaran surrendered himself and confessed to killing Soh. Although he was initially charged with murder, the charge was reduced to robbery with hurt and he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane by district judge Tan Jen Tse.[11][12]
  • 2 December 2001: 19-year-old Indonesian domestic helper Muawanatul Chasanah was physically abused and starved over a nine-month period by her employer, 47-year-old Ng Hua Chye. On 1 December 2001, Ng kicked her in the stomach so hard that it ruptured; she eventually died due to peritonitis. The case came to light after Ng surrendered himself to the police on 2 December 2001. Initially charged with murder, Ng had ultimately his charges reduced to culpable homicide and voluntarily causing hurt. On 19 July 2002, High Court judge Choo Han Teck sentenced Ng to 18 years and six months' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane. Ng's wife, 30-year-old Rainbow Tan Chai Hong, was also arrested and charged with voluntarily causing hurt to Muawanatul and failing to report her husband's actions to the police. On 19 February 2003, magistrate Alvin Koh sentenced Tan to nine months' imprisonment.[13]
  • 9–24 December 2001: A plot by terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) to bomb several embassies in Singapore and Yishun MRT station was uncovered by the Internal Security Department, leading to the arrests of 15 Singapore-based JI members that month. In the subsequent years, about 40 more JI-linked individuals were arrested.[14]
  • 31 December 2001: 56-year-old Quek Loo Ming added one teaspoon of methomyl into a bottle of water and hoped that 49-year-old Doreen Lum, the chairperson of a residents' committee in Clementi, would drink it. He had done so because he was unhappy that she had treated him like an "errand boy" when he was volunteering at the committee, and had hoped that she would suffer from diarrhoea. Lum did not drink the water; three others drank it instead and ended up being hospitalised. One of the three victims, 62-year-old Fong Oi Lin, died of poisoning on 3 January 2002; the other two – 38-year-old Richard Ho Shi Shong and 66-year-old Wong Ah Kim – survived. Police investigations led to the arrest of Quek, who was initially charged with murder. On 5 August 2002, High Court judge Choo Han Teck sentenced Quek to nine years' imprisonment for culpable homicide and a concurrent jail term of three years for voluntarily causing grievous hurt. On 8 November 2002, after the prosecution appealed for a heavier sentence, the Court of Appeal increased Quek's two jail terms on both charges to ten years and five years respectively, with both sentences to run consecutively, making it a total of 15 years' imprisonment.[15][16][17]

2002[]

  • 2 January 2002: 44-year-old British financial adviser Michael McCrea killed his chauffeur and friend, 46-year-old Kho Nai Guan, and Kho's girlfriend, 29-year-old Chinese national Lan Ya Ming, in his apartment in Balmoral Park. The killings had been triggered by a quarrel after Kho insulted McCrea's girlfriend, 22-year-old Audrey Ong Pei Ling. McCrea and Kho then got into a fight, which ended with McCrea strangling Kho to death. McCrea also knocked Lan unconscious and later secured plastic bags over her head, causing her to suffocate to death. McCrea and Ong later contacted their respective friends, Gemma Louise Ramsbottom and Justin Cheo Yi Tang, for help in disposing of the two dead bodies. On 4 January, Kho's body was stuffed into a wicker basket and left in the rear seat of a Daewoo Chairman while Lan's body was stuffed into the car boot; the car was then abandoned at Orchard Towers. McCrea and Ong then fled Singapore on 5 January, but were arrested in Melbourne in June 2002 and extradited to Singapore in 2003 and 2005 respectively. In order to secure McCrea's extradition, Singapore had to assure Australia that he would not be sentenced to death if he was found guilty of murder as Australian law forbids the extradition of anyone to another jurisdiction if the crime committed is punishable by death. Ong was sentenced on 7 February 2003 to 12 years' imprisonment for her role in disposing the victims' bodies. Ramsbottom and Cheo testified against McCrea during his trial, claiming that they had been threatened with bodily harm if they did not cooperate. McCrea eventually pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and concealing evidence of the killings. On 29 June 2006, High Court judge Choo Han Teck sentenced McCrea to 24 years' imprisonment. McCrea appealed against his sentence but the three-judge Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal as they deemed that he lacked remorse. In 16 June 2022, Michael McCrea will be released for good behaviour after serving his sentence. [18]
  • 28 May 2002: 23-year-old Indonesian domestic worker Sundarti Supriyanto fatally stabbed and murdered her 34-year-old employer, Angie Ng, in her office in Bukit Merah. After that, she set fire to the office and came out carrying Ng's 18-month-old son, Leon Poh. Ng's three-year-old daughter, Crystal Poh, died in the fire. Sundarti was arrested after knife wounds were discovered on Ng's body. Although she lied at first that the fire had been caused by masked men, she eventually admitted to starting the fire but denied killing Ng. During her trial, the prosecution sought to portray her as a cold-blooded killer and discredit her claims of being abused by Ng. The defence, on the other hand, argued that she had been abused by Ng and that had caused her to lose control of herself and kill her employer. After a 27-day trial, High Court judge accepted Sundarti's allegations of Ng starving and physically abusing her based on the testimonies of Ng's colleagues who witnessed these abuses and thus found Sundarti guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and sentenced her on 25 September 2004 to life imprisonment.[19][20][21]
  • 5 August 2002: Soosainathan Dass Saminathan, an Indian national, had killed six-month-old Anjeli Elisaputri, the daughter of his friend Jalil Hameed and Jalil's Indonesian girlfriend. He was said to have abducted the baby while her mother was sleeping next to the infant before he sexually assaulted and killed her. He also wrapped the baby's corpse in a blanket before disposing it down a rubbish chute. Later, the police arrested Soosainathan as a suspect and charged him with the infant's murder. On 17 July 2003, Soosainathan was found guilty of Anjeli's murder and sentenced to death. He was hanged on 22 May 2004 after losing his appeal against the death sentence.[22]
  • December 2002: Australian citizen Van Tuong Nguyen was convicted of carrying about 400 grams of heroin at Changi Airport while travelling from Cambodia to Australia and sentenced to death on 20 March 2004 by High Court judge Kan Ting Chiu. After a failed appeal to the Court of Appeal and despite pleas for clemency from the Australian government, Nguyen was hanged on 2 December 2005.[23]

2003[]

  • 7 August 2003: Selvaraju s/o Satippan, a jobless man, was arrested for kidnapping 22-year-old Nina Elizabeth Varghese, a MediaCorp journalist, and charged with kidnapping, causing hurt and attempted murder. In 2004, a 45-year-old Selvaraju was sentenced to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane by High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang. He appealed against his sentence but lost the appeal.[24][25][26]
  • 25 December 2003: A seven-year-old girl was briefly kidnapped by 35-year-old Tan Ping Koon and 42-year-old Chua Ser Lien. She was in a house at Yio Chu Kang when Chua sneaked in and took her into a car driven by Tan. A catering assistant caught them in the act and took down the car's licence plate number. The information was relayed to the catering assistant's husband. When he spotted the getaway car, he decided to follow them in his own vehicle. The two kidnappers realised they were being followed so they released the girl at Tampines. However, the two kidnappers called the girl's father the following day and demanded S$1 million from him or they would hurt her family. The sum of S$70,000 was eventually agreed and paid to them before Tan and Chua were subsequently arrested on 27 December in the same year. They were both found guilty of kidnapping and sentenced by High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang to life imprisonment and three strokes of the cane each. 17 years later, a 58-year-old Chua committed suicide in Changi Prison on 8 July 2020 while serving his life sentence.[27][28][29][30][31]

2004[]

  • 2 April 2004: 44-year-old Chia Teck Leng was sentenced to 42 years in jail by High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang after swindling four foreign banks out of S$117 million from 1999 to 2003 using his position as the financial manager of Asia Pacific Breweries. Chia's sentence of 42 years' imprisonment was the longest sentence ever meted out for a commercial crime in Singapore, surpassing that of Teo Cheng Kiat in 2000, who was sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment for embezzling approximately S$35 million from Singapore Airlines for 13 years before his arrest in January 2000.[32][33][34]
  • 2 April 2004: 44-year-old Lim Poh Lye and two accomplices attempted to rob 56-year-old scrap car dealer Bock Thuan Thong and killed him when the situation escalated unexpectedly after he tried to escape. Bock's body was then abandoned in a car at Boon Keng. An autopsy revealed that Bock had sustained seven stab wounds on his thighs, of which two were fatal. Two days later, Lim surrendered himself to the police. About ten weeks later, one of Lim's two accomplices, 36-year-old Tony Koh Zhan Quan, who had fled to Malaysia, surrendered himself to the Royal Malaysia Police and was extradited to Singapore. Both Lim and Koh were charged with murder, while their third accomplice and the mastermind of the robbery, 43-year-old Ng Kim Soon, has gone on the run since then. On 24 January 2005, High Court judge Choo Han Teck reduced the murder charges to robbery with hurt and convicted both men of the reduced charges. Lim, the one who stabbed Bock, was sentenced to 20 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane, while Koh was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and 20 strokes of the cane. However, after the prosecution appeal, both men were found guilty of murder on 15 July 2005 and sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal. The two men were hanged on 28 April 2006. As of July 2021, Ng is still at large.[35]
  • 17 May 2004: 43-year-old G. Krishnasamy Naidu hacked his wife, 39-year-old Chitrabathy d/o Narayanasamy, to death with a chopper in front of several witnesses at his wife's workplace in Tuas. At the time, Krishnasamy was out on bail after stabbing his wife twice with a knife on 8 April 2004. Nine hours after killing his wife, Krishnasamy surrendered himself to the police and was charged with murder. At the trial, it was revealed that Chitra had been involved in several extramarital affairs over her 20-year marriage with Krishnasamy. It was only in 2004 that Krishnasamy suspected Chitra of having an affair again and caused grievous hurt to her in front of their two teenage children. On 17 May 2004, he came to see Chitra at her workplace under the pretext of bringing her divorce papers to sign, and killed her once she turned her back on him. Krishnasamy's defence counsel, led by lawyer Peter Keith Fernando, consulted two psychiatrists – George Joseph Fernandez and Stephen Phang Boon Chai – and they testified in court that Krishnasamy was suffering from a mental condition known as morbid jealousy, which made him qualify for diminished responsibility when he committed the crime. The prosecution's psychiatrist, however, said that Krishnasamy was not suffering from any abnormality of mind during the killing. On 26 April 2006, High Court judge Woo Bih Li accepted that Krishnasamy was indeed suffering from morbid jealousy before, during and after the crime. However, the judge felt that Krishnasamy failed to substantiate his defence of diminished responsibility as he was still capable of making precise decisions and clear judgments at the time of the offence despite his mental illness. Thus, the judge found Krishnasamy guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Krishnasamy later won his appeal against his conviction and sentence as the Court of Appeal accepted that he was indeed suffering from an abnormality of mind when he killed Chitra. The court also cited that even some people suffering from diminished responsibility are still fully capable of making clear judgments. As such, Krishnasamy was found guilty of a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.[36][37][38][39]
  • 1 June 2004: 37-year-old Chong Keng Chye was sentenced to 20 years' preventive detention and nine strokes of the cane for severely abusing a seven-year-old boy to death in 1999, as well as for several cheating offences. He also manipulated the boy's mother – his 40-year-old girlfriend – to assist him in abusing the boy for several months until the boy's death on 3 June 1999. He even told the boy's mother to make false statements to the police about her son's death. Over the next four years, Chong and the boy's mother cheated six people of S$200,000. When they were arrested in August 2003 for cheating, the police discovered that they were responsible for the boy's death as well. Both Chong and the boy's mother were initially charged with murder and abetment of murder respectively. The latter was eventually convicted of cheating and abetting Chong to abuse her son and two daughters. On 11 May 2004, she was sentenced to four years and seven months' imprisonment in view of her low IQ of 80, which made her vulnerable to being manipulated by Chong to abuse her children. During sentencing, district judge Kow Keng Siong described Chong, who had been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, as an individual with a "sadistic and violent streak" and "a clear disregard for the authority and law", which warranted a lengthy jail term for the protection of society. The judge also expressed his concern over Chong's strong propensity to re-offend and his lack of remorse over his crimes.[40][41]
  • 7 October 2004: Four-year-old Sindee Neo was abducted from her home and thrown off from her flat at Telok Blangah, causing her to sustain fatal head injuries that led to her death five days later. Chee Cheong Hin Constance, a former Singapore Airlines stewardess and the lover of Neo's father, was initially charged with abduction and murder. However, her murder charge was later reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder after she was found suffering from schizophrenia. In January 2006, a 37-year-old Chee was found guilty of both charges of abducting Neo and causing her death. On 7 April 2006, High Court judge V. K. Rajah sentenced her to a total of 13 years' imprisonment – 10 years for killing Neo and three years for the abduction.[42][43]
  • 10 October 2004: Eight-year-old Huang Na was found dead and stuffed inside a box at Telok Blangah Hill Park. Took Leng How, a Malaysian who was an acquaintance of Huang's mother, was arrested and charged with the murder of Huang Na. On 27 August 2005, High Court judge Lai Kew Chai found Took guilty and sentenced him to death. A 24-year-old Took was hanged on 3 November 2006 after failing to overturn his conviction at the Court of Appeal and after President S. R. Nathan rejected his plea for clemency.[44]
  • November 2004: Nigerian citizen Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi was arrested at Changi Airport for carrying 100 capsules containing heroin. On 22 December 2005, High Court judge Kan Ting Chiu found Tochi guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced him to death. Tochi was eventually hanged on 26 January 2007 after failing to overturn his conviction at the Court of Appeal and after President S. R. Nathan rejected his plea for clemency.[45]

2005[]

  • 6 May 2005: 29-year-old Muhammad bin Kadar stabbed 69-year-old Tham Weng Kuen more than 110 times during a robbery in her flat in Boon Lay and caused her to die. When he was arrested for the murder, Muhammad implicated his 37-year-old brother, Ismil bin Kadar, as an accomplice and claimed that Ismil was the one who killed Tham when he ransacked the flat. Muhammad later retracted his statement and claimed that his brother was innocent and that he was the only one involved in the robbery. Ismil, who was arrested and promptly charged with murder together with Muhammad, insisted his innocence throughout the trial and denied making any confessions about his alleged involvement in the crime. Nevertheless, after a trial lasting 94 days from 2006 to 2008, the brothers were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by the High Court. Both of them appealed against their sentences and the Court of Appeal decided that Ismil was not involved in the robbery and murder, so on 6 July 2011 the court acquitted Ismil of murder and dismissed Muhammad's appeal. When changes to the law took effect in 2013, Muhammad applied for re-sentencing but the Court of Appeal rejected on the grounds that he had clearly intended to cause death to the victim when he inflicted more than 110 stab wounds on her. On 17 April 2015, after losing his appeal for presidential clemency, a 39-year-old Muhammad was hanged in Changi Prison.[46][47][48][49][50]
  • 15–16 June 2005: In a case known as the Kallang River body parts murder, 50-year-old Leong Siew Chor murdered his lover, 22-year-old Chinese national Liu Hong Mei, and dismembered her body into seven parts. He dumped her body parts at multiple places across Singapore, including the Kallang River. He also stole her credit card and withdrew S$2,000 from her bank account after having sex with her. He was arrested on 17 June 2005. On 19 May 2006, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang found Leong guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Leong was hanged on 30 November 2007 after President S. R. Nathan rejected his plea for clemency.[51][52][53]
  • 7 September 2005: 29-year-old Filipino domestic helper Guen Garlejo Aguilar killed her friend, 26-year-old Jane Parangan La Puebla, who was also working as a domestic helper in Singapore. On 7 September 2005, the two women had gotten into a quarrel over a S$2,000 debt which La Puebla owed Aguilar. The quarrel soon became a fight, which ended with Aguilar smothering and strangling La Puebla to death in the condominium at Serangoon where Aguilar worked. Aguilar hid La Puebla's body inside a luggage bag in her room – unknown to her employers. On 9 September 2005, after her employers had gone to work, Aguilar purchased various items and used them to dismember La Puebla's body and clean up the scene. She then placed the body parts in separate bags before disposing of them at Orchard Road and near MacRitchie Reservoir. After the body parts were discovered, the police solved the case within the next 12 hours and arrested Aguilar. Before Aguilar's trial started in May 2006, the charges against her were reduced to manslaughter after her defence lawyers argued that she suffered from depression and that La Puebla's death had resulted from a grave and sudden provocation. Aguilar pleaded guilty and was sentenced by High Court judge V. K. Rajah to ten years' imprisonment.[54]
  • 24 December 2005: On the night before Christmas, a group of four Malaysians - 20-year-old Hamir bin Hasim, 21-year-old Kamal bin Kupli, 25-year-old Abdul Malik bin Usman and 17-year-old Benedict Inyang Anak Igai - decided to commit robbery. Upon spotting 41-year-old Myanmar national Thien Naing walking nearby Upper Boon Keng Road, Benedict acted as lookout at the nearby area while the remaining three went to attack Thien and assaulted him by stabbing him and kicking him in the head. Thien died due to the knife wounds and severe head injuries, and the gang took away his wallet and cash. A passer-by later discovered Thien's corpse and contacted the police, who later investigated and arrested all the four Malaysians, who had also committed a few more robberies prior to Thien's murder and their arrests. Benedict was later sentenced to five years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane for robbery with hurt, while the remaining three men - Hamir, Kamal and Abdul Malik - were convicted of murder and sentenced to death in June 2007. All three condemned lost their appeals in February 2008, and they were eventually hanged.[55][56][57]

2006[]

  • 15 February 2006: 39-year-old gangster Tan Chor Jin, nicknamed "One-eyed Dragon" because he was blind in his right eye, forcefully entered the apartment of 41-year-old nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon. He robbed Lim and his family of their valuables before shooting Lim to death. After that, he fled Singapore with help from his accomplice, Ho Yueh Keong. He was nabbed by the Royal Malaysia Police ten days later at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur before he was extradited to Singapore on 1 March 2006. Initially charged with murder, his charge was amended to one of an unlawful discharge of a firearm. During the trial, Tan chose to be unrepresented by legal counsel. In his defence, he claimed that Lim was about to hit him with a chair and thus he shot Lim in self-defence. However, his defence fell flat when the prosecution noted that Lim was tied up and could not have lifted the chair. On 22 May 2007, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang found Tan guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Tan was eventually hanged on 9 January 2009 after the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal on 30 January 2008. Lim Choon Chwee, the driver who drove Tan to Lim's apartment, was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for abetting the murder and sentenced to six months imprisonment for failing to report the robbery. Ho, who was on the run for nine years before he was arrested and extradited back to Singapore, was charged on 15 July 2015 for harbouring a fugitive and pleaded guilty on 8 August 2016. Two days later, he was sentenced to a 20-month jail term.[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]
  • 1 March 2006: Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, a two-year-old girl better known as Nonoi, went missing in early 2006. There was a highly-publicised search for Nonoi, in which the police and various strangers joined her family in searching for her. Three days later, 29-year-old Mohammed Ali bin Johari, Nonoi's stepfather, tearfully confessed to his wife and mother-in-law that Nonoi was dead and he had accidentally drowned her in water while trying to get her to stop crying. Mohammed Ali surrendered himself to the police and led them to the place where he disposed Nonoi's body. The autopsy results found sexual injuries on Nonoi's body, implying that Mohammed Ali had raped her before the alleged murder. Throughout the trial, Mohammed Ali repeatedly denied raping Nonoi and maintained that her death was accidental. On 31 August 2007, High Court judge Kan Ting Chiu found a 31-year-old Mohammed Ali guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Mohammed Ali later lost his appeal and was hanged on 19 December 2008.[68]
  • 30 May 2006: In a robbery masterminded by their two other accomplices, a group of three men – 22-year-old Daniel Vijay s/o Katherasan, 23-year-old Christopher Samson s/o Anpalagan, and 47-year-old Nakamuthu Balakrishnan – robbed 46-year-old lorry driver Wan Cheon Kem of 2,700 mobile phones, which were worth S$1.3 million. During the robbery at Changi Coast Road, Balakrishnan used a baseball bat to bash Wan at least 15 times. Wan died in hospital six days later. The three men, as well as the two masterminds – 36-year-old Ragu a/l Ramajayam and 38-year-old Arsan s/o Krishnasamy Govindarajoo – were all arrested. Among the stolen 2,700 mobile phones, only 2,158 were recovered. Ragu and Arsan were charged with abetting armed robbery with hurt while the three men – Daniel, Christopher and Balakrishnan – were charged with murder. Ragu, who knew of Wan's assignment of delivering the mobile phones and informed the other four men to plan the robbery, pleaded guilty to his role in the robbery and sentenced to six years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane on 24 April 2007. Later, he successfully appealed for his sentence to be reduced to four years and six months in jail and six strokes of the cane. Arsan was convicted of abetment of armed robbery with hurt and a few other charges and sentenced to 16 years and six months' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. The three men who stood trial for murder – Daniel, Christopher and Balakrishnan – were all found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang on 28 July 2008. Daniel and Christopher appealed against their sentences and the Court of Appeal convicted them of lesser charges of robbery with hurt on 3 September 2010. On 4 October 2010, Daniel and Christopher were each sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane. Balakrishnan was eventually hanged on 22 July 2011 after he declined to proceed with his appeal against the death sentence.[69] [70][71][72][73][74]
  • 2 June 2006: 42-year-old lawyer David Rasif fled Singapore with S$11.3 million of his clients' money and has been on the run since then. In the days before his disappearance, he had made S$11 million worth of transfers around several locations and bought over S$2 million worth of jewellery. As at 2013, the sum of S$11.3 million was the largest amount of money misappropriated by a lawyer in Singapore. Over S$10 million of the S$11.3 million came from an American couple, George and Kaori Zage, who had engaged Rasif to complete a property transaction in May 2006. Over the subsequent years, the Commercial Affairs Department managed to recover S$7.4 million in the form of cash and gold bars from bank accounts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Vietnam. Rasif was also investigated for a property cashback scam which started in 2004. His two accomplices – property agent Goh Chong Liang and lawyer David Tan Hock Boon – were arrested and respectively sentenced to five years and five months' imprisonment in August 2007 and five years' imprisonment in November 2008. As of July 2021, Rasif is still on Interpol's wanted list.[75][76][77][78]
  • August 2006 – November 2007: Entrepreneur James Phang Wah, director of Sunshine Empire, had swindled S$190 million out of numerous people, including retirees and students. Phang had deployed a Ponzi scheme to commit his crimes, enticing his victims with "lifestyle packages" to get them into investing into the scheme. Phang's criminal activities, which lasted 15 months, only ended with his arrest in November 2007. Phang, who did not plead guilty to his crimes and never shown any remorse for his treachery, was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment and fined S$66,000 for criminal breach of trust in July 2010. His wife, Neo Kuon Huay, was fined S$60,000 and his accomplice, Hoo Choon Cheat, was jailed for seven years for their roles in Phang's criminal activities.[79] On 20 December 2017, a 58-year-old Phang was released from prison. The next day, he faced charges of fraud which he committed in Malaysia.[80]

2007[]

  • 12 June 2007: 19-year-old Malaysian citizen Yong Vui Kong was arrested for transporting more than 47 grams of heroin from Malaysia to Singapore. He was found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced to death by the High Court in November 2008. He initially lost his appeal against the death sentence and failed in his plea for clemency to President S. R. Nathan. However, after changes to the law took effect in 2013, judges have the discretion to sentence drug traffickers who only act as couriers or having fulfilled any other conditions, to life imprisonment with or without caning instead of death. Yong was thus re-sentenced by High Court judge Choo Han Teck to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane in November 2013. On 22 August 2014, Yong's lawyer, M Ravi, appealed against the sentence, arguing that caning was unconstitutional. On 4 March 2015, the three-judge Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal.[81][82]
  • 30 June 2007: 19-year-old Felicia Teo Wei Ling, a student at LASALLE College of the Arts, was last seen near a friend's flat in Marine Parade before she was reported missing on 3 July 2007. The case garnered significant media attention and searches were conducted locally and internationally to trace her whereabouts. In mid-2020, the case was transferred to the police's Criminal Investigation Department, which found that Teo had allegedly been killed by two of her schoolmates living near where she was last seen. One of them, 35-year-old Ahmad Danial bin Mohamed Rafa'ee, was arrested and charged with murder in December 2020. The other schoolmate, 32-year-old Ragil Putra Setia Sukmarahjana, was not in Singapore when Ahmad was arrested and has been at large since then. Ahmad's arrest also sparked renewed interest in Teo's case and other missing persons' cases. As of July 2021, Ahmad is pending trial for murder while Ragil remains at large.[83][84][85][86]
  • 1 July 2007: 16-year-old Muhammad Nasir bin Abdul Aziz was ordered by his lover, 24-year-old Aniza binte Essa, to murder her husband, 29-year-old Manap bin Sarlip. In the early morning of 1 July 2007, Nasir stabbed Manap nine times near their apartment in Whampoa. Nasir and Aniza were arrested shortly later and charged with murder. Although Aniza initially faced the death penalty for abetting murder, the charge was eventually reduced to abetment of culpable homicide not amounting to murder because she had a mental condition at the time of the offence which allowed her to qualify for the defence of diminished responsibility. On 28 April 2008, High Court judge Chan Seng Onn sentenced Aniza to nine years' imprisonment. Nasir pleaded guilty to murder but since he was under 18 years of age when he committed the murder, he was spared the gallows and indefinitely detained under the President's Pleasure.[87][88][89][90][91]
  • 2 September 2007: 20-year-old National Serviceman Dave Teo Ming sparked a 20-hour-long nationwide manhunt when he went AWOL from Mandai Hill Camp with a SAR-21 assault rifle and eight 5.56 mm rounds. Investigations revealed that Teo went AWOL because he wanted to kill Crystal Liew, his girlfriend who broke up with him in April that same year, as well as five others whom he hated in his life. After his arrest, Teo faced multiple charges under the Arms Offences Act. Teo's fellow serviceman, Ong Boon Jun, who was with Teo when he had the weapons in his possession, was charged under the Arms Offences Act as well. At Teo's trial, it was revealed that Teo had an unhappy childhood and had experienced several tragedies in his life, including his mother abandoning him to his grandparents, parental abuse, and the death of his younger brother in a car accident in March 2001. These events caused Teo to suffer from depression, according to a report from the Institute of Mental Health. Teo had finally snapped after Liew broke up with him and that had driven him to commit the crime. On 9 July 2008, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang convicted Teo of the charges he faced, and sentenced him to nine years and two months' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane. During sentencing, the judge expressed his sympathy towards Teo for his unfortunate circumstances and advised him to turn over a new leaf while in prison. As for Ong, he was sentenced to six years and six months' jail and six strokes of the cane for consorting with a person in unlawful possession of a firearm.[92][93]

2008[]

  • 17 February 2008: Kho Jabing and Galing Anak Kujat, two Malaysians working in Singapore, robbed two Chinese nationals in Geylang. One of the victims, 40-year-old Cao Ruyin, was severely bludgeoned on the head by Kho. Cao died from his severe head injuries six days later. Kho and Galing were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in 2010 by the High Court. Following an appeal in 2011, Galing's conviction was reduced to robbery with hurt and his sentence was reduced to 18 years and six months' imprisonment and 19 strokes of the cane. Kho failed to escape the gallows when his appeal was rejected. After the Singapore government removed the mandatory death penalty in January 2013 for crimes of murder with no intention to kill, Kho's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane following an appeal and a re-trial in the High Court in August 2013. However, the prosecution appealed against the life sentence. In 2015, the five-judge Court of Appeal, by a landmark decision of three to two, sentenced Kho to death, as the majority three judges felt that Kho had demonstrated a blatant disregard for human life and had been vicious in the attack on Cao, which made it more appropriate to sentence Kho to death. Kho was eventually hanged in the afternoon of 20 May 2016 in Changi Prison after his appeal was dismissed earlier that morning. The Court of Appeal's landmark judgement in Kho's case was designated as the sentencing guidelines for murder with no intention to kill under the reformed death penalty laws and has had an effect on several other murder cases in Singapore.
  • 27 February 2008: Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat bin Kastari discreetly escaped from the now-defunct Whitley Road Detention Centre, sparking a nationwide manhunt. He managed to flee from Singapore to Malaysia via a handmade floating device on 3 March 2008 and eventually hid himself in Skudai for about a year before he was arrested by Malaysian police on 1 April 2009.[94] He was repatriated to Singapore on 24 September 2010 and detained indefinitely under the Internal Security Act.[95]
  • 27 April 2008 – 10 June 2008: 47-year-old Bala Kuppusamy attacked and robbed seven women aged between 16 and 34 over a period of about two months. Among the seven victims, four were also raped by Bala. On 30 June 2008, the police arrested Bala, who was then charged with rape, robbery with hurt and aggravated molestation, among other charges. Bala had previously been convicted of rape twice in 1987 and 1993; he was sentenced to 11 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane in 1987, and 23 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane in 1993. On 4 March 2009, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang sentenced a 48-year-old Bala to 42 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. Bala's jail term was the longest ever meted out to a sex offender in Singapore.[96][97][98][99]
  • 19 September 2008: In a case known as the Yishun triple murders, 42-year-old Chinese national Wang Zhijian killed his 41-year-old lover Zhang Meng, 17-year-old Feng Jianyu (Zhang's daughter), and 36-year-old Yang Jie (Zhang's flatmate), in Zhang's flat in Yishun. He also attempted to kill Yang's 15-year-old daughter, who became the sole survivor of the incident. The next day, Wang was arrested and charged with three counts of murder. On 30 November 2012, High Court judge Chan Seng Onn sentenced Wang to death for the murder of Yang; Wang had successfully raised a defence of diminished responsibility for the other two murder charges. On 30 November 2014, during the cross-appeal between Wang and the prosecution, the Court of Appeal turned down Wang's appeal against the death sentence and allowed the prosecution's appeal, which found Wang guilty of all three murders. Wang was eventually hanged in Changi Prison.[100][101][102][103]
  • 20 October 2008: The highly decomposed body of 47-year-old Choo Xue Ying was found in Bukit Batok Nature Park. The police traced Choo's phone to 48-year-old Rosli bin Yassin and his 35-year-old Indonesian girlfriend Jelly, and arrested them. Rosli eventually admitted to assaulting Choo during an argument in her car when they passed through Bukit Batok Nature Park and had abandoned her there after she fell unconscious, thinking that she was still alive. On 11 May 2012, Rosli, who had multiple previous convictions for theft, cheating, forgery and criminal breach of trust since 1991, was sentenced by High Court judge Woo Bih Li to 12 years' preventive detention for cheating and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. After the prosecution appealed, Rosli's sentence was increased to 20 years' preventive detention by the Court of Appeal in March 2013. Jelly, who was charged with cheating and overstaying, was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment and fined S$3,000, and she was deported from Singapore upon her release from prison.[104][105][106][107]

2009[]

  • 11 April 2009: 29-year-old Chinese national Wang Wenfeng attempted to rob a taxi driver, 58-year-old Yuen Swee Hong, after flagging down the taxi and telling Yuen to drive him to a secluded spot in Sembawang. During their struggle, Wang stabbed Yuen and fatally wounded him before abandoning him in a nearby forested area. Wang then drove Yuen's taxi to a multi-storey carpark at Canberra Road and cleaned the bloodstains. After that, he called Yuen's wife, Chan Oi Lin, lying to her that he had kidnapped her husband and demanding a ransom. Chan and her elder child and only son, Yuen Zheng Wen, contacted the police, who arrested Wang on 13 April 2009. On 17 April 2009, Wang led the police to the location where he abandoned Yuen's body. In September 2011, High Court judge found Wang guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. When changes to the law took effect in January 2013, Wang applied for re-sentencing. In November 2013, he was re-sentenced to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane after he substantiated his defence that he had no intent to kill Yuen and only wanted to rob him.[108][109][110]

2010s[]

2010[]

  • 29 May 2010: In a case known as the 2010 Kallang slashing, four Malaysians from Sarawak – 21-year-old Micheal Garing, 31-year-old Tony Anak Imba, 20-year-old Hairee Landak and 19-year-old Donny Meluda – committed a series of armed robberies, causing three victims to sustain serious injuries. Their fourth victim, 41-year-old construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai, eventually died of his wounds. Micheal, Tony and Hairee were arrested after the crime, while Donny fled to Malaysia and was eventually arrested in 2017. On 20 April 2015, High Court judge Choo Han Teck found Micheal and Tony guilty of murder and sentenced the former to death while sentencing the latter to life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. Micheal appealed against his death sentence while the prosecution pressed for Tony to receive the death penalty too; the Court of Appeal turned down both appeals. Micheal was hanged on 22 March 2019 after President Halimah binte Yacob turned down his appeal for clemency. Hairee and Donny were each sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for multiple charges of armed robbery with hurt in 2013 and 2018 respectively.[111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119]
  • 30 October 2010: Republic Polytechnic student Darren Ng Wei Jie was involved in a 'staring' incident with a group of teenage gang members. The gang members viciously attacked him at Downtown East in Pasir Ris, and he later died of his injuries in Changi General Hospital. A total of 12 youths were arrested and charged with rioting. Among these 12 youths, five of them – 18-year-old Stilwell Ong Keat Pin, 20-year-old Ho Wui Ming, 19-year-old Chen Wei Zhen, 18-year-old Edward Tay Wei Loong and 16-year-old Louis Tong Qing Yao – were initially charged with murder but later had their charges reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang thus sentenced them as follows: Ong was sentenced to 12 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane; Ho was sentenced to 11 years and three months' jail and 10 strokes of the cane; Chen and Tay were each sentenced to 10 years' jail and 10 strokes of the cane; while Tong was sentenced to eight years' jail and 11 strokes of the cane. The other seven youths were also sentenced to jail terms ranging between three years and three months and six years and three months, as well as caning between three and six strokes for rioting and other unrelated minor offences.[120][121][122][123][124]

2011[]

  • 19 September 2011: 39-year-old Khoo Joo Huat, the leader of an unlicensed money-lending syndicate, was found guilty of 116 charges of illegal money-lending and six charges of corruption. District judge Eddy Tham thus sentenced Khoo to five years and five months' imprisonment, a fine of S$300,000 and 21 strokes of the cane. At the time of his arrest, Khoo had over S$450,000 hidden in two safes in a secret room in his condominium unit at Jalan Loyang Besar. His five accomplices – Koh Chew Hwee, Tok Leong Hai, Kwek Sir Huat, Ho Yew Fei and Loy Jit Chan – were also arrested and each sentenced to imprisonment terms of between 14 and 52 months. Among them, Tok, Kwek, Koh and Loy were fined between S$250,000 and S$455,000 each; Tok and Ho were also each sentenced to 12 strokes of the cane.[125]
  • 28 December 2011: In a high-profile case involving an online vice syndicate, 48 men were charged for having sex with an underage prostitute. The case started with an eight-hour police raid on 28 December 2011 to crack down on an online vice ring. Subsequent investigations revealed that 39-year-old Tang Boon Thiew, who operated the online vice ring, had earned more than S$370,000 from sexual services provided by the prostitutes he hired. Among them, there was a 17-year-old girl from China whom Tang had forced into prostitution and had represented online as 18 years old. On 11 January 2013, Tang was sentenced by senior district judge See Kee Oon to 58 months' imprisonment and a S$90,000 fine for 20 vice-related charges. Throughout the trial, which lasted from 2012 to 2015, the case made headlines in Singapore because there were high-profile individuals, top civil servants, government scholarship holders, businessmen and managers among the 48 accused, including some foreigners. The 48 accused included UBS banker Juerg Buergin; Shaw Organisation scion Howard Shaw Chai Li; RSN scholar and captain Chan Wei Kiat; army lieutenant-colonel Emlyn Thomas Thariyan; police superintendent Tan Wee Kiat; NEA in-house lawyer Chia Kok Peng; MOE scholar and teacher Chua Ren Cheng; and Pei Chun Public School principal Lee Lip Hong.[126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138]

2012[]

  • 30–31 March 2012: 37-year-old Gabriel Lee Haw Ling killed and decapitated his fiancée, 24-year-old Elsie Lie Lek Chee, in their Jurong West rented room after believing that she was possessed by evil spirits. Lee was initially charged with murder, but the charge was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder after he was diagnosed to be suffering from a brief psychotic disorder when he killed Lie. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced on 24 February 2017 by High Court judge to 10 years' imprisonment.[139]
  • 26 June 2012: Six leaders of City Harvest Church – senior pastor Kong Hee, board member Chew Eng Han, deputy senior pastor Tan Ye Peng, finance manager Serina Wee Gek Yin, management board secretary John Lam Leng Hung, and finance manager Sharon Tan Shao Yuen – were arrested for misuse of church funds. They were subsequently found guilty of criminal breach of trust by presiding judge See Kee Oon on 21 October 2015 and sentenced to jail terms of between 21 months and eight years. Due to a legal technicality, their original sentences were reduced upon appeal to a five-judge Court of Appeal on 7 April 2017. Kong was sentenced to three years and six months in jail; Chew was sentenced to three years and four months in jail; Tan Ye Peng was sentenced to three years and two months in jail; Wee was sentenced to two years and six months in jail; Lam was sentenced to one year and six months in jail; and Sharon Tan was sentenced to seven months in jail. After the sentences were announced, Law Minister K. Shanmugam expressed his disappointment at the verdict but stated that the court's decision has to be respected. The government later reviewed the applicable laws to plug the legal technicality.[140]
  • 10 September 2012: At Little India's Dunlop Street, three Indian nationals and remittance agents - Antony Savarimuthu, Gulam Hussain Jalaludeen and Abuasanar Kamarulzaman - were robbed by three robbers who posed as police officers and a total of approximately S$1.3 million were taken from the victims. The gang robbery was planned by Singaporean taxi driver and police reservist, 33-year-old Mohammad Ansari s/o Abdul Hussain, who collaborated with four other men - two Singaporeans, 33-year-old Magesan s/o Ramasamy (Ansari's childhood friend and music teacher) and 29-year-old Mohamed Faizal s/o Ajmalhan (a moneychanger), and two Indian foreign workers, 34-year-old Arunachalam s/o Lakshmanan and 35-year-old Chinnaya Antony Samy - to rob the three agents of their money; Ansari, Magesan and Faizal were the three who posed as police officers when taking the agents hostage and robbing them while both Arunachalam and Chinnaya acted as lookouts. All five suspects were arrested shortly after for the gang robbery and two other unrelated robbery cases. More than $900,000 were later recovered by the police while the remaining $300,000 remained missing. Ansari, the mastermind of the robbery, was the only one out of the five to plead guilty to charges of gang robbery and impersonating a policeman, and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane on 4 September 2013. The remaining four robbers claimed trial and District Judge Low Wee Ping later found them guilty of the impersonation and gang robbery charges on 30 June 2015. Magesan was sentenced to ten years and six months' jail, and Faizal was sentenced to ten years and four months in jail, while both Chinnaya and Arunachalam were each sentenced to a jail term of ten years. District judge Low also ordered that each of the four remaining convicts should receive the maximum of 24 strokes of the cane for their respective roles in the robbery. The three robbery victims, meanwhile, who were found to be operating their remittance business without a legal license, were jailed between ten weeks and ten months and fined between S$70,000 and S$100,000 for charges of operating an illegal remittance business.[141][142][143][144][145][146]

2013[]

  • 15 June 2013: A group of gang members attacked 20-year-old Wilson Siau with parangs outside Cathay Cineleisure Orchard at around 9:12 pm purportedly because of his "cocky" manner of walking, particularly the way he swung his arms. The attack, which took place in full view of passers-by, left Siau bleeding profusely. Siau was immediately rushed to Singapore General Hospital and he survived the slashing after undergoing surgery and treatment. Nine men were subsequently arrested, charged in court, and convicted of rioting and being members of an unlawful assembly. Some of the nine were named in news reports: 19-year-old Muhamad Hardi Azaman was charged on 26 June 2013. On 25 November 2013, 19-year-old Muhammad Hasnul Redha Abdullah was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane; 20-year-old Muhammad Fahmi Razali was sentenced to three years and six months' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane; and 21-year-old Muhammad Nazmir Osman was sentenced to two years and six months' imprisonment and four strokes of the cane. Two others – Muhammad Farin Zulkeple and Muhammad Ridzuan Said – pleaded guilty and were assessed for their suitability for reformative training. On 7 April 2016, a 26-year-old Mizra Abdul Azman was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane for another slashing while he was out on bail following his arrest for the 2013 incident at Cineleisure.[147][148][149][150][151]
  • 10 July 2013: In a case known as the Kovan double murders, 34-year-old Iskandar bin Rahmat, a former policeman, killed 67-year-old Tan Boon Sin and his 42-year-old son, Tan Chee Heong. Tan Boon Sin's body was found in his home at Hillside Drive while Tan Chee Heong's body was dragged under a car for 1 km from the home before being dislodged outside Kovan MRT station. Iskandar, who had joined the Singapore Police Force in 1999, fled to Malaysia shortly after committing the crime. He was arrested in Johor Bahru two days later, extradited back to Singapore and charged with murder on 15 July 2013. As he was facing financial difficulties and bankruptcy which could possibly cost him his job, Iskandar hatched a plan to rob the elder Tan in order to settle his debts, which led to the double murders. High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang found Iskandar guilty of murder on 4 December 2015 and sentenced him to death, rejecting Iskandar's claims of self-defence and that the killings was a result of a robbery gone wrong; the injuries on the victims were inflicted on vital parts of the body and the force used were too excessive for self-defence, which clearly showed that Iskandar had intended to cause death and silence the victims. Iskandar's appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed on 3 February 2017, while his plea for clemency to President Halimah binte Yacob was also turned down in July 2019. As of July 2021, Iskandar is still held on death row in Changi Prison due to unsettled legal issues.[152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162]
  • 8 December 2013: A riot broke out in Little India shortly after 33-year-old Sakthivel Kumaravelu, a construction worker from India, was killed in a traffic accident. This was the first time a riot happened in Singapore since the 1969 race riots. Over 20 men from Bangladesh and India were charged for their respective roles in the riot and sentenced to jail terms; three of them were also each sentenced to three strokes of the cane. In the aftermath of the riot, the Singapore government passed the Liquor Control (Supply and Consumption) Act 2015 to regulate the supply and consumption of liquor at public places, since the investigations had revealed that many of the rioters were drunk when the riot occurred. The riot also drew public attention to various social issues in Singapore, including ongoing ethnic tensions, rising income inequality, Singapore's heavy reliance on foreign labour, as well as the working conditions of migrant workers.[163]
  • 9 December 2013: 46-year-old P Mageswaran, an ex-convict who had a long criminal record of rape, theft and robbery crimes since 1991 and recently released from prison after serving a six-year jail term with caning of 24 strokes for previous serial robberies, had re-offended by committing robbery in the Yishun home of his employer's 62-year-old mother Kanne Lactmy. This time, he murdered the elderly woman during the course of robbery, in which he took away the victim's jewellery to pawn for RM26,300 to pay off his new flat's installment payment. Mageswaran was arrested eight days later and charged with murder, which was later reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. After Mageswaran was tried and convicted in May 2017, the prosecution described the case as one of the worst types of culpable homicide and sought the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for Mageswaran given his long criminal record and the cold-blooded, calculated nature of the killing, while the defence sought 12 years' of imprisonment given that Mageswaran was allegedly suffering from low IQ and it affected his thinking and conduct at the time of the crime. After hearing the submissions, High Court judge Hoo Sheau Peng sentenced 50-year-old Mageswaran on 21 July 2017 to 18 years' imprisonment, since she did not agree that it was the worst type of culpable homicide given the lack of premeditation to kill and accepted that it was a robbery gone wrong. Mageswaran was not caned since he reached 50 years old, and the judge did not impose an extra jail term of six months in lieu of caning despite the prosecution's arguments. Later, not only did Mageswaran's appeal to reduce his 18-year sentence failed, the prosecution's appeal to increase the sentence from 18 years to life was also dismissed by the Court of Appeal on 11 April 2019.[164][165][166][167][168]
  • 12 December 2013: 33-year-old Indian national Jasvinder Kaur's dismembered body was found in the Whampoa River. Her husband, 33-year-old Indian national Harvinder Singh, is suspected to have killed her. 25-year-old Gursharan Singh was arrested for assisting Harvinder Singh in disposing of the body and failing to report to the police. He was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment in April 2015. A coroner's report had issued a verdict of murder, effectively finding Harvinder Singh guilty of murder in the case of his wife's death, as the manner of disposal of the headless corpse and circumstances of the crime was well-organised and did not indicate any signs of a crime of passion. As of July 2021, Harvinder Singh is still on the run and on Interpol's wanted list.[169][170]
  • 28–29 December 2013: 37-year-old Dexmon Chua Yizhi was found dead in Lim Chu Kang on 1 January 2014. Two suspects, 53-year-old Chia Kee Chen and 64-year-old Chua Leong Aik, were arrested and charged with murder. A third suspect, Djatmiko Febri Irwansyah (late 20s), had fled Singapore. It was revealed that Dexmon Chua had an affair with Chia's wife, so Chia had collaborated with Chua Leong Aik and Febri to murder Dexmon Chua in revenge. On 8 January 2016, Chua Leong Aik, who drove the vehicle, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for his role in the murder. On 4 August 2017, Chia was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by High Court judge Choo Han Teck. The prosecution appealed for Chia to be given the death penalty, arguing that the murder was premeditated and had been carried out in a merciless, cruel and vicious manner demonstrating a blatant disregard for human life. On 27 June 2018, the Court of Appeal overturned Chia's life sentence and sentenced him to death. As of July 2021, Djatmiko Febri Irwansyah is still on the run.[171][172][173][174][175][176][177]

2014[]

  • 8 January 2014: 41-year-old Lee Sze Yong, a former salesman, hatched a plot with his accomplice, 50-year-old Heng Chen Boon, to kidnap 79-year-old Ng Lye Poh, the mother of the three founders of the supermarket chain Sheng Siong. Having conducted reconnaissance before the kidnapping, Lee approached Ng at an overhead bridge in Hougang on the morning of 8 January 2014 and lied to her that her eldest son, Lim Hock Chee, the CEO of Sheng Siong, had collapsed at his workplace. Lee then tricked Ng into getting into a car and blindfolded her while driving her around. Lee met Heng later and they demanded S$20 million in ransom. The police tracked down and arrested the two men before they got the ransom. Lee and Heng were charged with kidnapping on 10 January 2014. Heng was sentenced to three years in jail in 2015 for abetting the kidnapping, and released in January 2016 on remission. On 1 December 2016, Lee, who had asked for the death penalty, was sentenced by High Court judge Chan Seng Onn to life imprisonment and three strokes of the cane.[178]
  • 11 June 2014: Two Pakistani nationals – 43-year-old Rasheed Muhammad and 25-year-old Ramzan Rizwan – robbed and killed their roommate, 59-year-old Muhammad Noor, by suffocating and strangling him. They attempted to get rid of his body by dismembering it and stashing the torso and legs in two suitcases. One of the suitcases was found at Syed Alwi Road and the two men were arrested and charged with murder. On 17 February 2017, High Court judge Choo Han Teck found Rasheed and Ramzan guilty of murder and sentenced them to death. The Court of Appeal dismissed their appeals on 28 September 2017 and they were hanged in early 2018.[179][180][181][182][183]
  • 20 November 2014: 40-year-old Jackson Lim Hou Peng was arrested at his Ang Mo Kio flat for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, 32-year-old Vietnamese national Tran Cam Ny. Lim, who was previously jailed for drug consumption, faced an additional charge of consuming methamphetamine. On 14 March 2016, his murder charge was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder on the account that he was suffering from diminished responsibility due to the effects of drugs, and that he had no intention to kill when he covered Tran's mouth to stop her from screaming. Based on these mitigating factors, in addition to the fact that Lim had called for medical assistance and tried to resuscitate Tran upon discovering that she was not breathing, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang sentenced Lim to a total of nine years and six months' imprisonment and three strokes of the cane. The case was re-enacted in the crime show The Convict, in which Lim and Tran's names were changed to protect their privacy.[184][185][186][187]

2015[]

  • 20 March 2015: 31-year-old Malaysian engineer Yap Weng Wah was convicted of 76 sexual offences committed against 31 pubescent boys aged between 11 and 15 whom he met through online social networking. Yap's sexual rampage on his victims, which lasted from November 2009 to June 2012, ended with his arrest at his Yishun apartment in September 2012 after the sister of one of his victims made a police report. When the police raided the apartment, they found more than 2,000 videos of Yap having sex with boys on his laptop. He was also found to have also raped 14 more boys in Malaysia. The charges against Yap involved him performing oral sex on or sodomising 30 of his victims. The Institute of Mental Health released a diagnosis report that Yap was suffering from hebephilia, a type of sexual preference for early adolescent children between 11 and 14 years of age. Yap, who pleaded guilty to 12 counts of sexual penetration with a minor and have 64 other charges taken into consideration during sentencing, was described by the prosecution as a "clear and present danger to society". In view of his high propensity to re-offend and other aggravating factors, High Court judge Woo Bih Li sentenced Yap to 30 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane.[188][189][190][191][192]
  • 13 April 2015: A couple – Tan Hui Zhen and Pua Hak Chuan – had cruelly abused their flatmate, 26-year-old Annie Ee Yu Lian, over eight months from August 2014 until her death on 13 April 2015. Ee, who was intellectual disabled and estranged from her family, had moved in to live with the couple in 2013. Throughout the eight months, the couple had beaten her frequently and the beatings had increased in intensity over time, with some sessions lasting up to two hours. As a result, Ee had difficulty walking, standing and breathing, and had become incontinent in the days leading to her death. She had been repeatedly hit with a large roll of shrink wrap weighing up to 1 kg, and had a plastic dustbin smashed over her with such force that the dustbin cracked. Despite the abuse, she suffered in silence and tried to hide her injuries from her colleagues and neighbours when they asked her. An autopsy report revealed that she suffered 12 fractured ribs, seven fractured vertebrae, a ruptured stomach and a body full of blisters and bruises; she had died of acute fat embolism caused by the beatings. The couple were initially charged with murder, but had their charges reduced to causing grievous hurt with a weapon, among others. On 1 December 2017, High Court judge sentenced a 33-year-old Tan to 16 years and six months in jail, and a 38-year-old Pua to 14 years in jail and 14 strokes of the cane.[193][194]
  • 1 June 2015: A red Subaru Impreza driven by 34-year-old Mohamed Taufik bin Zahar took an incorrect turn and ended up at a high security checkpoint near the Shangri-La Hotel where the Shangri-La Dialogue was held. When the police ordered Taufik to open the car boot for checks, he sped up and crashed the car through concrete barriers despite repeated warnings to stop. The police then opened fire and fatally shot Taufik through the windscreen, causing the car to come to a halt. On 22 April 2016, state coroner Marvin Bay ruled that Taufik's death was a "lawful killing".[195][196]
  • 20 June 2015: 24-year-old Muhammad Iskandar bin Sa'at was arrested on 19 June 2015 for the theft of a motor vehicle and escorted by the police to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital the next day for a medical examination after he claimed that he had chest pain. After his grip restraints were loosened on his left arm and right wrist for blood drawing and minimising discomfort respectively, Iskandar attacked police staff sergeant Muhammad Sadli bin Razali and attempted to escape. During the scuffle, Iskandar grabbed Sadli's T-baton and used it to hit him at least 13 times. He also snatched Sadli's revolver and managed to fire three shots, injuring Sadli's left thumb and right foot. Sadli and two paramedics eventually subdued and pinned down Iskandar. On 22 June 2015, Iskandar was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm under the Arms Offences Act, which carries the mandatory death penalty. However, the charge was later reduced to unlawful possession of a firearm for causing hurt to a public servant, to which Iskandar pleaded guilty. On 19 March 2018, High Court judge Chan Seng Onn sentenced Iskandar to life imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane.[197][198][199]
  • 26 August 2015: Zackeer Abbass Khan, the owner of the murtabak restaurant Zam Zam at North Bridge Road, allegedly paid S$2,000 to Anwer Ambiya Kadir Maideen, his friend who was also a headman of the Sio Ang Koon gang, to hire a hitman, Joshua Navindran Surainthiran, to attack Liakath Ali Mohamed Ibrahim, the supervisor of the neighbouring Victory Restaurant. Liakath survived the slashing with a permanent scar on his face. On 29 November 2016, a 23-year-old Joshua was sentenced to six years and six months' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane for causing grievous hurt, among other charges. Zackeer, along with Anwer and four others, were charged with engaging in a conspiracy to cause grievous hurt and/or criminal intimidation. On 11 May 2020, district judge Mathew Joseph found a 49-year-old Zackeer guilty of conspiring to cause grievous hurt and sentenced him to six years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane. A 50-year-old Anwer, who served as the middleman in the scheme, was sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment.[200][201][202]

2016[]

  • 19 February 2016: 25-year-old Muhammad Khairulanwar bin Rohmat was sentenced by district judge Mathew Joseph to a total of six years and three months' imprisonment and fined S$30,000 for recruiting two underage girls aged 15 and 16 for sexual exploitation and luring them into prostitution. He also admitted to sexual penetration of a minor under 16 years of age with consent. Khairulanwar was the first person to be tried and convicted under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act 2015.[203][204][205]
  • 21 March 2016: 47-year-old Malaysian national Boh Soon Ho was charged on 7 April 2016 for strangling his 28-year-old girlfriend, Chinese national Zhang Huaxiang. He fled to Malaysia before he was arrested by the Royal Malaysia Police and brought back to Singapore to face trial. On 8 February 2020, High Court judge found a 51-year-old Boh guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment.[206][207][208]
  • April 2016: 52-year-old Lim Hong Liang engaged his 26-year-old nephew Ron Lim De Mai and a middleman Ong Hong Chye to hire several men to attack 35-year-old Joshua Koh Kian Yong, the boyfriend of Lim Hong Liang's mistress, 27-year-old Audrey Chen Ying Fang. The attackers were subsequently arrested, convicted and sentenced to jail terms of between 15 months and 14 years and six months, as well as caning. Ron Lim was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and four strokes of the cane. Lim Hong Liang and Ong Hock Chye were found guilty in 2019 and respectively sentenced to six years' imprisonment and five years and six months' imprisonment. Both were granted bail while waiting for the outcomes of the appeals against the district courts' verdicts. Ong later lost his appeal and received an additional three years and six months' jail term for committing another offence while out on bail. Lim was granted a re-trial by the High Court and eventually granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal on the conditions that he must not reoffend for the next 36 months and having to compensate Koh.[209][210][211][212]
  • 7 June 2016: Daryati, a 23-year-old Indonesian domestic worker, stabbed her 59-year-old employer Seow Kim Choo to death in her home at Telok Kurau. She also inflicted two neck wounds on Seow's husband, 57-year-old Ong Thiam Soon, before he managed to restrain her and went out to call for help. Daryati was arrested and charged with murder. At her trial, Daryati claimed that she had confronted Seow to get back her passport, which Seow kept in a safe, and wanted to steal money from a locked drawer so that she could return to Indonesia. In March 2020, the prosecution amended the original murder charge to a lesser charge of murder and did not seek the death penalty. Daryati initially pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of murder but retracted her plea in September 2020 and attempted to escape the murder charge with a defence of diminished responsibility. High Court judge found Daryati guilty of murder and sentenced her to life imprisonment on 23 April 2021.[213][214][215][216][217][218]
  • 7 July 2016: 27-year-old Canadian national David James Roach robbed a Standard Chartered bank in Holland Village. He presented a note to the bank teller stating that he had a weapon before making off with S$30,000. After the robbery, Roach immediately fled to Bangkok, where was subsequently charged with violating Thai exchange control laws and money laundering, and sentenced to 14 months in jail. Singapore was unsuccessful at requesting Roach's extradition from Thailand as the two countries have no relevant treaty. Upon his release on 11 January 2018, Roach was deported to Canada via the United Kingdom. Singapore requested Roach's extradition from the United Kingdom on the same day, which led to Roach being detained while in transit at London. To secure the extradition, Singapore assured the United Kingdom that Roach would not be sentenced to caning, a mandatory punishment for robbery under the Singapore Penal Code, if he is found guilty. Roach was extradited on 16 March 2020 from the United Kingdom to Singapore and subsequently charged with robbery and unlawfully removing the money out of Singapore. On 7 July 2021, deputy principal district judge Luke Tan sentenced a 31-year-old Roach to five years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane for both charges. The Attorney-General's Chambers eventually made arrangements for Roach to have his caning sentence remitted, thus fulfilling the assurance given to the United Kingdom earlier to secure Roach's extradition.[219][220][221][222] [223][224][225][226][227][228][229]
  • 9 July 2016: 64-year-old Toh Sia Guan allegedly caused the death of 52-year-old Goh Eng Thiam, who was found lying motionless on the floor in a coffee shop at Geylang Lorong 23. On 2 March 2020, High Court judge found Toh guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment.[230][231]
  • 12 July 2016: 48-year-old Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock strangled his girlfriend, 31-year-old Chinese national Cui Yajie, in his car on a quiet road near Gardens by the Bay. He burnt her body in a secluded location in Lim Chu Kang over several days until only a few pieces of charred fabric and a brassiere hook remained. After the police found that Khoo was the last person who interacted with Cui, they arrested Khoo and he led them to where he killed Cui and where he burnt her body. On 19 August 2019, High Court judge Audrey Lim found Khoo guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment.[232][233][234]
  • 26 July 2016: 24-year-old Piang Ngaih Don, a domestic helper from Myanmar, died after being abused by her employer, Gaiyathiri d/o Murugayan, and Gaiyathiri's mother, Prema S. Naraynasamy, over a period of about nine months. She had been physically assaulted almost daily, forced to use the toilet with the door open, and deliberately starved to the point where she weighed only around 24 kg at the time of her death. On the night of 25 July 2016, Gaiyathiri and Prema had beaten up Piang and tied her hand to a window grille before leaving her on the floor. Piang eventually died in the morning of 26 July 2016 due to hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy with severe blunt trauma to her neck. An autopsy revealed that she had suffered multiple injuries and was so emaciated and undernourished that she would have died of starvation if the ill-treatment had been prolonged. Gaiyathiri, Prema, and Gaiyathiri's husband, former policeman Kevin Chelvam, were arrested and charged in court for their respective roles in causing Piang's death. In February 2021, Gaiyathiri, who was initially charged with murder, pleaded guilty to reduced charges of culpable homicide, among others, after she qualified for the defence of diminished responsibility. A 2019 report by psychiatrists who assessed her had concluded that she suffered from major depressive disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder, which had substantially contributed to her offences. On 22 June 2021, a 41-year-old Gaiyathiri was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment by High Court judge See Kee Oon for culpable homicide and voluntarily causing hurt. Chelvam had been suspended from the Singapore Police Force and charged on 11 August 2016 for voluntarily causing hurt to Piang and removing evidence, among other charges. As of July 2021, Prema and Chelvam's cases are still pending in court.[235][236][237][238][239]
  • October 2016: Between 15 and 22 October 2016, an unemployed couple – Ridzuan bin Mega Abdul Rahman and Azlin binte Arujunah – repeatedly splashed hot water on their five-year-old son at their flat in Toa Payoh until he collapsed and eventually died in hospital on 23 October from his scald injuries, which covered about three-quarters of his body. The couple had also committed other acts of abuse against their son, including locking him up in a pet cage, pinching him with a pair of pliers, hitting him with a broom, and burning his palm with a heated spoon. The couple were initially charged with murder, but later had their charges reduced to causing grievous hurt by dangerous means. The prosecutors also described the case as "one of the worst cases of child abuse" in Singapore. On 13 July 2020, High Court judge sentenced the couple, both aged 28, to 27 years' imprisonment each; Ridzuan was also sentenced to 24 strokes of the cane while Azlin was sentenced to an additional year in jail in lieu of caning since Singapore law does not allow caning for women. As of July 2021, the prosecution's appeal against the murder acquittal of Ridzuan and Azlin is still pending.[240][241][242]
  • 25 November 2016: 24-year-old Malaysian national Ahmad Muin Yaacob robbed 54-year-old Maimunah Awang of her jewellery at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal and killed her by stabbing her with a pair of grass cutters and bludgeoning her on the head until she became motionless. He then abandoned her body in a drain and fled back to Malaysia. Maimunah's body was discovered the next day. The Singapore Police Force enlisted the help of the Royal Malaysia Police to arrest Ahmad on 18 December 2016 and extradite him to Singapore, where he was charged with murder on 21 December 2016. On 4 November 2020, High Court judge found Ahmad guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane.[243][244][245][246][247]

2017[]

  • 20 January 2017: 41-year-old Teo Ghim Heng got into an argument with his pregnant wife, 39-year-old Choong Pei Shan, at their flat in Woodlands. He strangled her and their daughter, four-year-old Teo Zi Ning, and burnt their bodies. Their charred bodies were found eight days later. Teo was charged with the murders of his wife and daughter. He also initially faced a third charge of murder of his unborn child, but the charge was stood down. On 12 November 2020, Teo was found guilty of two counts of murder and sentenced to death by High Court judge .[248][249][250][251][252] As of July 2021, Teo's appeal against his conviction and death sentence is pending.[citation needed]
  • 2 March 2017: 39-year-old American MMA trainer Joshua Robinson was sentenced by district judge Crystal Ong to four years' imprisonment after pleading guilty on 13 February 2017 to four counts of making obscene films and three counts of having consensual sex with minors. Robinson had unprotected sex with two 15-year-old girls on separate occasions in 2013 and 2015 in his apartment at Upper Circular Road, and had filmed the encounters with his mobile phone. On 25 June 2015, after the second girl told her parents and made a police report, the police seized Robinson's computer and portable hard drive and found 5,902 obscene films, of which 321 contained child pornography. On 28 July 2015, while out on bail, Robinson visited a martial arts gym and showed an obscene video to a six-year-old girl while her father was training; the girl told her father later and he called the police. After Robinson was sentenced on 2 March 2017, there was significant public outrage as Robinson was perceived to have received a "light" sentence; some people questioned whether it was because he was a foreigner, while others asked why he was not sentenced to caning. More than 27,000 people signed an online petition calling for a revision of the sentence. On 8 March 2017, the Attorney-General's Chambers stated that the public prosecutor would not be appealing against Robinson's sentence, and explained that the sentence was broadly in line with relevant sentencing precedents and that Robinson was not sentenced to caning because caning is not a penalty for any of the offences he was charged with. On the same day, Law Minister K. Shanmugam mentioned that the government would be considering what approaches are necessary for offenders like Robinson to be dealt with more severely through higher penalties.[253][254][255]
  • 12 March 2017: 34-year-old Satheesh Kumar Manogaran and his cousin, 28-year-old Naveen Lal Pillar, were attacked by a group of three men – 21-year-old Muhammad Khalid bin Kamarudin, 22-year-old Muhammad Faizal bin Md Jamal and 26-year-old Shawalludin bin Sa'adon – near St James Power Station due to a previous conflict between Satheesh and Shawalludin. Satheesh, who sustained several stab wounds, was pronounced dead in hospital while Naveen survived his injuries. The police classified the case as a murder case. The three men, along with two other men – 27-year-old Muhammad Hisham bin Hassan and 19-year-old Muhd Firdaus bin Abdullah – were arrested and respectively charged with different offences. On 2 January 2018, Hisham was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for harbouring Khalid and Faizal, as well as abetting the trio to cause hurt to Satheesh and Naveen. On 30 May 2018, Firdaus was sentenced to six years and two months' jail and five strokes of the cane for harbouring Khalid and Faizal and other unrelated offences. On 26 November 2018, Shawalludin was sentenced to five years and six months' jail and six strokes of the cane for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Satheesh. On 14 May 2019, Faizal, who was initially facing a murder charge together with Khalid, was sentenced to eight years and six months' jail and eight strokes of the cane for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Satheesh, with another charge of causing hurt to Naveen. As of July 2021, Khalid is pending trial for murder.[256][257][258][259]
  • 21 June 2017: 41-year-old Indonesian maid Khasanah had murdered her elderly employer 79-year-old Chia Ngim Fong, and his 78-year-old wife Chin Sek Fah in the couple's Bedok flat. Khasanah fled to Indonesia and was caught shortly after entering the country. Khasanah was not extradited back to Singapore for trial given that a local law decreed that Indonesians who committed crimes overseas but caught in their home country should be tried in their home country. The Singapore Police Force and Indonesian national police (Polri) thus worked together to investigate the Bedok double murder case. With these efforts, Khasanah was tried in Indonesia for the couple's murders and the local courts found her guilty of the murders. Originally sentenced to life imprisonment, Khasanah's life sentence was reduced to 20 years' of imprisonment upon her appeal, and she was ordered to serve her jail term in an Indonesian prison.[260][261]
  • 10 July 2017: 69-year-old Tan Nam Seng stabbed his son-in-law, 38-year-old Spencer Tuppani, in broad daylight at Telok Ayer Street. Tuppani ran and collapsed outside an eatery on Boon Tat Street. Tan also prevented others from rendering help to Tuppani, leading to the latter's death in hospital shortly after. Tan was initially charged with murder on 12 July 2017 and remanded for three weeks for psychiatric evaluation. On 21 September 2020, High Court judge sentenced Tan to eight years and six months' imprisonment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder as Tan was found to be suffering from a major depressive disorder.[262][263][264]

2018[]

  • 30 December 2018: Ahmed Salim, a 31-year-old Bangladeshi worker, strangled his 34-year-old girlfriend Nurhidayati Wartono Surata, an Indonesian domestic worker, at the Golden Dragon Hotel in Geylang. Nurhidayati's body was found later that night by a hotel receptionist. Ahmed was arrested the next day and charged with murder on 2 January 2019. When his trial started in September 2020, Ahmed initially defended himself by saying that he was provoked into killing Nurhidayati, but High Court judge found that he had the intention to murder Nurhidayati when he found out that she was unfaithful to him and seeing other men. On 14 December 2020, Ahmed was sentenced to death for murder, but he appealed against his sentence and conviction. As of July 2021, the outcome of his appeal is still pending.[265][266][267][268][269][270]

2019[]

  • 29 May 2019: 42-year-old lawyer Jeffrey Ong Su Aun was arrested in Kuala Lumpur with a stolen Malaysian passport and extradited to Singapore after allegedly misappropriating what prosecutors believed to be "the largest amount of money ever misappropriated by a lawyer in Singapore". He has been held in remand since June 2019 and faced 76 charges including cheating, forgery and criminal breach of trust as an attorney in a case involving over S$75 million. The case first came to light after precision engineering firm Allied Technologies, one of Ong's clients, filed a police report in May 2019 over S$33.4 million having gone missing from its escrow account.[271] As of July 2021, Ong's case is still pending.
  • 2 July 2019: 31-year-old Satheesh Noel s/o Gobidass was killed in a fight at Orchard Towers involving six other men and one woman: 27-year-old Tan Sen Yang, 26-year-old Joel Tan Yun Sheng, 26-year-old Chan Jia Xing, 26-year-old Ang Da Yuan, 25-year-old Loo Boon Chong, 22-year-old Tan Hong Sheng, and 22-year-old Natalie Siow Yu Zhen. On that day, the seven, along with their friends, had been drinking at a club in Orchard Towers. Ang got into a fight with Satheesh, while Siow, Joel Tan and Tan Sen Yang joined in. During the fight, Tan Sen Yang slashed Satheesh with a karambit; Satheesh eventually collapsed and died in hospital later due to a fatal stab wound to the neck. The seven were arrested and initially charged with murder by common intention on 4 July 2019. However, six of them eventually had their charges reduced to voluntarily causing hurt, consorting with a person possessing an offensive weapon, obstructing justice by discarding evidence, rioting, being a member of an unlawful assembly to assault a person, or any combination of these charges. On 4 March 2020, Ang was sentenced to eight months' jail and six strokes of the cane, while Joel Tan was sentenced to four weeks' jail. Siow was sentenced on 9 October 2020 to five months' jail. On 15 October 2020, Chan was given a conditional warning, which required him to refrain from criminal conduct for a year or else he would be prosecuted for the original offence along with any new offences committed. Shortly after Chan was sentenced, there were allegations on social media that Chan and others had received preferential treatment in sentencing because of their race. On 16 October 2020, the Attorney-General's Chambers refuted the allegations and directed the police to investigate those responsible for the allegations that are potentially in contempt of court. Loo was sentenced in January 2021 to five months' jail and fined S$1,000. Tan Hong Sheng, who had prior convictions for rioting and was out on bail at the time of the Orchard Towers incident, was sentenced on 5 March 2021 to four years and nine months' jail and 12 strokes of the cane. As of July 2021, Tan Sen Yang's case is still pending in the High Court.[272][273][274][275]
  • October 2019: Four men – 37-year-old Liong Tianwei, 26-year-old Leonard Teo Min Xuan, 19-year-old Justin Lee Han Shi and 17-year-old Abdillah bin Sabaruddin – were arrested for their suspected involvement in circulating obscene materials and promoting vice activities through a Telegram chat group called "SG Nasi Lemak". The chat group was used as a platform for sharing obscene photos and videos of women in Singapore. When it was still active, it had more than 44,000 members and members had to pay S$30 as an "entry fee" after its membership numbers spiked in the months before the arrests. On 16 October 2020, Lee and Abdillah (whose name was redacted in news reports as he was below 18 when he committed the offence) were sentenced to probation. Liong was sentenced to nine weeks' imprisonment and a fine of S$26,000 on 9 March 2021. On 3 June 2021, Teo was sentenced to mandatory treatment for a year after a report from the Institute of Mental Health diagnosed him with major depressive disorder and mentioned that it contributed to his offences.[276][277][278][279][280][281]

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