Wikipedia:WikiProject Singapore/Pending list of major crimes in Singapore

The list contains a list of major crimes of Singapore pending filtering and article creation. The necessity for this holding list arose when the List of major crimes in Singapore (2000–present) was marked for PROD with the rationale:

List article does not conform to MOS:LIST guidelines. It should consist of links to existing articles about the subject rather be a WP:NOTDICT directory listing. The article as it currently exists appears to be a collection of news articles rather than an encyclopaedia article.

Potential notable cases (to be shifted to WP:SG)

Date	Name	Type	No. of deaths	Notability	Details
5 August 2000	Farhad Hossain	Murder (unsolved)	1		A headless corpse was found in the bushlands near a construction site at Tuas. The identity of the deceased was later ascertained to be 26-year-old Bangladeshi worker Farhad Hossain. Two days later, Farhad's 34-year-old friend and fellow worker Abdul Based Late Nasin Uddin was arrested and charged with his murder. The head was found soon after Based's arrest, and autopsy reports showed that Farhad's head was chopped off by a heavy and sharp object (possibly a parang or a chopper) and the severe cracks on the skull suggest that someone must have used a large amount of force to hack at Farhad's head severely with the same aforementioned possible murder weapon. At Based's trial in April 2001, the prosecution attempted to prove that Based had a motive to kill Farhad by presenting a previous conflict between Based and the victim over money problems which caused both their friendship to deteriorate. One of the prosecution's key evidences to prove its case against Based was the bloodstained shirt he wore when he was arrested. However, when he was called to the stand to make his defence, Based was able to prove that he had an alibi at the time of the murder and that the bloodstains found on the shirt were tested and found to be animal blood, not human; and the shirt itself actually belonged to a butcher and a friend of Based's whom Based visited and exchanged shirts with before his arrest. As such, after some deliberation over the evidence, testimonies and submissions made by both sides, Judicial Commissioner Chan Seng Onn decided that the prosecution has failed to prove the charge of murder beyond a reasonable doubt, and accepted Based's defence of an alibi, hence he acquitted Based on murder and discharged him. As of today, the case remains unsolved, and the murderer(s) were never found.
6 January 2001					45-year-old Zaiton binte Abu Bakar, a divorcee, was murdered at her home, was found by her daughter Norjanna after she came back from clearing her work at her uncle's accountancy firm and visiting her father. The suspect, 29-year-old Othman bin Hassan, was found to have murdered her after police inspected his home and found belongings owned by Zaiton. He had murdered her when he went to her home to fix faulty taps and return a debt he owed, but when an argument about the debt escalated, he stabbed her six times in the abdomen and then ransacked her belongings. Othman was later arrested and charged with murder. He was eventually found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.
30 June 2001					Just when he briefly stopped his car near a roadside at Dunlop Street before driving to Malaysia, Tan Chun Seng was startled by one of the two Indian men hitting his car window as they passed by his car. Furious, the 26-year-old Malaysian stepped out of the car and went to find the man who hit his car, but he could only find the man's companion. The other man did not seemed to respond to Tan's furious words and continued walking (this seemingly deliberate and apparent indifference only infuriated Tan further) until Tan caught his attention and made him turn around. Tan angrily asked the man, demanding to know why his friend hit his car window. But the man did not respond, and he pushed Tan down onto the ground before making his way. Provoked by this action, Tan picked up a stick he saw next to him from the ground and used it to hit the man once on the head and hit him many times (mostly on the man's haversack) even when the man has collapsed due to loss of consciousness. Tan only stopped after the man stopped moving and left for Malaysia in his car, with the belief that the man was still alive (as he could still hear him breathing before he left). Unknown to Tan, the first blow he inflicted on the man's head turned out to be fatal, and the victim, 44-year-old Krishnan Sengal Rajah, died as a result. What was more shocking to Tan was when he received news of the man's death, he found out that Krishnan was a deaf-mute, which explained why he did not seem to respond to Tan or seem to ignore his words. 10 months later, Tan Chun Seng was arrested in April 2002 in Malaysia, and he was charged with the murder of Krishnan. At the trial in early 2003, Tan Chun Seng failed to substantiate his defence of sudden and grave provocation against the murder charge and he was sentenced to death for killing the deaf-mute victim. Tan filed an appeal against the sentence, and veteran lawyer Subhas Anandan, who represented Tan in his appeal, raised the huge disparity in terms of height and size between Tan and the apparently larger-sized and taller victim; the heat of the moment where the victim had started a brief sudden fight with Tan by pushing Tan onto the ground, leading to Tan picking up the stick in an uncontrollable fit of anger to hit the victim; the lack of any undue advantage Tan had against Krishnan, as well as other factors vital to Tan in his defence of a sudden fight against the murder allegation. After hearing the appeal, on 20 May 2003, the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal, amending the murder conviction to one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Consequently, Tan's death sentence was then commuted to a sentence of 10 years' imprisonment for the killing.
10 August 2001		Kidnapping			A day before the wedding of 33-year-old businessman Tay Teng Joo, he was kidnapped by 45-year-old Chng Teo Heng together with the assistance of his accomplices, 52-year-old businesswoman Agnes Ng Lei Eng and 42-year-old freelance painter Ng Soon Teck. Tay was blindfolded and driven around in a car while they demanded a ransom of S$4 million. The sum was eventually reduced to S$1.22 million and Tay was released. It wasn't long before police nabbed all three suspects after a police report was made in 24 hours. Despite spending only S$903, the police managed to recover the money. They were all sentenced to life imprisonment, with Chng given an additional six strokes of cane for using a knife when abducting Tay into the car.
22 December 2001					During an argument late at night over an unsettled issue, 23-year-old Indian national and electrician Arun Prakash Vaithilingam used a kitchen knife to stab the chest of his flatmate and colleague Lourdusamy Lenin Selvanayagan in their Marsiling flat (which they shared with 9 other foreign workers), in front of those awakened by the fierce argument. Despite being rushed to hospital and the utmost efforts of doctors to resuscitate him, Lenin, was pronounced dead at the age of 23 at 1.02 a.m. on the early morning of 23 December 2001 at Alexandra Hospital. After briefly accompanying the victim to hospital, Arun left the hospital and subsequently went into hiding for nearly 3 months until on 18 March 2002, when he managed to acquire a forged passport in an attempt to leave the country, he was arrested at the Causeway Checkpoint. After he was placed under arrest, Arun was charged with the murder of Lenin. At the trial, Arun put up the defence of a sudden fight against the murder charge. Having considered the disparity between the witnesses' accounts and that of Arun's, the fact that Arun himself was armed with a knife while the victim Lenin was unarmed, the larger body size which Arun possessed in comparison to Lenin's and other facts etc., Judicial Comissioner Choo Han Teck found the witnesses' accounts of the incident more credible and felt that Arun had taken an undue advantage over the victim, which made him reject the defence of a sudden fight, and thus found Arun guilty of murder and sentenced him to death on 10 December 2002. Arun's appeal against the death sentence was dismissed on 12 March 2003. Nearly 7 months later, the dawn of 3 October 2003 marked the hanging of 25-year-old Arun Prakash Vaithilingam in the state gallows of Changi Prison for the murder of Lourdusamy Lenin Selvanayagan.
18 March 2002	Saminathan Subramaniam				At a flat in Jurong West, 78-year-old retiree Karichiappan Perumal was found dead with a sari shoved inside his mouth and with more pieces of cloth tied around his neck. According to an autopsy report by Dr Wee Keng Poh, Karichiappan died from either strangulation or asphyxia. Police investigations led to the arrest of 42-year-old Saminathan Subramaniam, the husband of Karichiappan's goddaughter. Saminathan confessed that he killed the elderly man. He told police that on the day of the murder itself, he and his friend, Swaran Singh (alias Nick) went to the flat to settle an earlier conflict with Karichiappan, who had been repeatedly telling his goddaughter to divorce Saminathan due to the ex-convict's inability to find a stable and permanent job to support his family (because Saminathan had been in and out of jail for drug-related and violent offences since the age of 16). During the argument, Karichiappan insulted and belittled Saminathan for not having any children, which hurt him deeply and also caused him to, in a fit of rage and agitation, assault the old man and forced the sari into the old man's mouth while Swaran tied another sari around Karichiappan's neck. The two men left the flat after stealing some valuables from the flat, and left the struggling Karichiappan behind. Saminathan, who had an earlier brush with the hangman in 1998 (see above) for the murder of a prison warder, was once again facing the gallows as he was charged with murdering Karichiappan. Later on, Saminathan was found guilty of a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with 18 strokes of the cane. He was also given a concurrent jail term of 5 years for robbing the old man. Till today, Swaran Singh remains on the run for the killing.
18 October 2002					A 13-year-old secondary school student was abducted by an unknown man who had been stalking and making sexual advances on her. The girl was taken to a flight of stairs between the 4th and 5th floors and threatened with a paper cutter by the man who later molested and raped her. After he left, a police report was filed, but the rapist's identity could not be ascertained. The girl, who cannot be named to protect her identity, became traumatised by the incident for a year or so and it took her a long time to slowly recover from the incident. 12 years after the incident, on 18 December 2014, a 37-year-old Malaysian and carpenter Lee Ah Choy was arrested for theft. When he was investigated for the crime, DNA test results matched Lee's DNA profile to that of the rapist, effectively identifying Lee as the culprit who raped the student on 18 October 2002. Lee, who admitted to raping the girl, was consequently charged with rape, abduction, aggravated outrage of modesty and criminal intimidation; he pleaded guilty to all 4 charges. On 22 June 2016, Lee Ah Choy, who was married with a son, was convicted of all charges and sentenced to 16.5 years' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane, with effect from the date of his remand on 23 January 2015.
21 March/8 April 2003					Already wanted for sex-related offences by Malaysian police, 28-year-old Malaysian Suresh Nair Vellayutham raped a pregnant clinic assistant in a cubicle of a female toilet in Cantonment Road on the morning of 21 March 2003. Then, more than 2 weeks later, on the afternoon of 8 April 2003 at the Grand Hyatt hotel, he rushed into a hotel room where two air stewardess just entered and raped the 31-year-old air stewardess twice while molesting her 30-year-old colleague. Suresh was arrested on 11 April 2003, and he was subsequently tried separately for the offences he committed on 21 March and 8 April respectively. At the end of both the separate trials, Suresh was found guilty of rape, aggravated molestation and threatening his victims with a knife and toy pistol, and sentenced to a total of 26 years' imprisonment. He also received a total of 40 strokes of the cane (he received 26 years and 24 strokes in the first trial, and a concurrent sentence of 16 years with an additional 16 strokes in the second trial).
24 October 2003					During an argument between both of them over a staring incident, 26-year-old Chaw Aiang Wah, who was armed with a knife and beer bottle, briefly chased 23-year-old Chan Shin Shoong and stabbed Chan 4 times on the shoulder and neck while being met with fruitless resistance from the victim to ward off the blows. Chan died from his wounds two days later, and his killer, who ran off to Malaysia after the crime, surrendered on 28 October 2003. Chaw, who worked as a kitchen assistant, was charged with murder. On 27 July 2004, Chaw was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.
16 October 2005					41-year-old Thai construction worker Singngoi Somsak used a hammer and bludgeoned his 35-year-old friend Jongtakhu Choochai, who was a Thai pimp for female Thai prostitutes, to death. He was arrested before he could retrieve his passport to flee the country and was charged with murder, but it was found and proven in the middle of the trial that Somsak was fully intoxicated at the time he killed Choochai due to him having consumed too much alcohol before the killing; this has substantially impaired his mental responsibility at the time of the killing. The charge was then reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and Somsak pleaded guilty to the reduced charge. He was then sentenced to 10 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane.
1 April 2006 - 12 August 2006					A group of seven men, consisting of Changi Airport flight supervisor Mohamed Fadzli Bin Abdul Rahim, 27; Fadzli's cousin Mohamad Norhazri bin Mohd Faudzi, 20; Yusry Shah Bin Jamal, 16; Khairul Zaman Bin Mamon, 16; Mohammad AL Ansari Bin Basri, 17; Muhammad Aishare Bin Abdul Samad, 16; and Malaysian citizen Muhamad Dhiyauddin Bin Ahmad, went to commit three gang robberies together (some of the listed members were not involved in one or two of these robberies) invariably throughout a period of four months from April 2006 to August 2006; the robbery victims were all female. In the first and third robbery, the oldest member of the group, Fadzli has raped the victims with the assistance of his cousin Norhazri. Later on, all, except for Dhiyauddin, were arrested and charged with gang robbery. Additionally, Fadzli and Norhazri faced charges of rape and abetment of rape respectively. The four youths arrested for the gang robbery were later given the following sentences: Aishare was sentenced to reformative training while the other three received probation. Upon the prosecution's appeal, the probation sentences passed upon both Yuzri Shah and Mohammad AL Ansari were replaced with reformative training. On 1 September 2007, Fadzli was convicted of rape and gang robbery, and sentenced to a total of 22 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. On 18 January 2008, Norhazri was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for gang robbery and abetment of rape. Till today, the seventh and last accomplice Muhamad Dhiyauddin Bin Ahmad remains on the run.
25 April 2006					26-year-old bartender Sadayan Ajmeershah murdered 26-year-old bouncer Jagagevan Jayaram by stabbing him 11 times. The incident resulted from a dispute between one of Sadayan's friends and Jagagevan's sister, which was where both men's paths were crossed when they got involved in it. This unsettled dispute would lead to a incident where Jagagevan and his friends assaulted Sadayan on that fateful day of 25 April and returned with a friend later that night to confront Sadayan (who was this time accompanied by two friends arriving to bring him to hospital) again. This led to a fight between both sides and Sadayan killing Jagagevan during the fight. Initially charged with murder, Sadayan, who was represented by two prominent lawyers Peter Keith Fernando and Subhas Anandan, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. On 13 August 2007, Sadayan was sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane. Sadayan's two friends – 24-year-old Melvin Mathenkumar Segaran and 22-year-old Arull Wanan Thangarasu – who were also involved in the fight, were each sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment and 8 strokes of the cane for voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapons.
June 2006					Lawyer David Rasif fled with S$11.3 million of his clients' money, one of the largest amount misappropriated by a rogue Singaporean lawyer. He was last seen by his wife in Bangkok, Thailand on 5 June 2006. About S$7.4 million in cash and gold have been recovered and as of today, he is still at large.
16 September 2006					46-year-old technician Zainal bin Nek was hacked to death near the Central Expressway exit by a group of nine men. He was found to have sustained 78 injuries during the attack when an autopsy was conducted on him. Five of the attackers – Mohamed Hishamadi bin Rahmat, 33; Norezam Mohsin, 28; Abdul Shahed s/o Akbal Ali, 27; Abdul Razak bin Abdul Hamid, 23; and Mohamad Rizal bin Mohamed Amin, 23  – were later arrested and charged with murder. The sixth member to be charged was 20-year-old Khairul Iskandar bin Khamsani, who surrendered himself to the police. The remaining three members, including 26-year-old Nur Rizal bin Mohamed Zainul, who was pointed out as the mastermind of the attack, were being listed on the police's wanted list. A year later, on 27 September 2007, all six pleaded guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Among the six, four of them – Norezam, Abdul Shahed, Abdul Razak and Mohamad Rizal – were each sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane. Hishamadi, who was the oldest of the gang and played the deadliest role in the killing, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane; the heaviest sentence compared to his friends. Khairul Iskandar, who surrendered himself and also the youngest of the group, was instead sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment and 6 strokes of the cane. In April 2008, the alleged mastermind Nur Rizal was arrested in Malaysia and brought back to Singapore for trial. 2 months later, on June 2008, Muhammad Zulkahil bin Johari became the eighth member to be arrested. On 25 March 2009, Zulkahil, who was 19 at the time of the killing, was sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment and 10 strokes of the cane, while Nur Rizal received 8 years and 10 strokes. Nur Rizal was also given an additional sentence of 1 year with 6 strokes of the cane for an unrelated offence involving him using a knife to slash a man who badmouthed his girlfriend in April 2007. Till today, the last remaining member of the gang, Mohamed Iskandar bin Mohamed Ali, was never caught.
4 September 2007					30-year-old unemployed Heng Boon Chai stabbed his 55-year-old uncle Heng Kim Teck to death. Heng was arrested and charged with murder. However, after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, the murder charge was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Having suffered from paranoid delusions, Heng believed his uncle caused the deaths of his elder brother and grandfather (it was untrue, as Heng's brother, also a schizophrenic, committed suicide in 1998 while Heng's grandfather died of natural causes in 2000), which caused him to kill his uncle. A year later, on 1 August 2008, Heng was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment.
6 March 2008					43-year-old Lim Bock Song had stabbed his drinking partner to death before fleeing to Outram Park MRT station. Following information by eyewitnesses, two policemen sighted Lim at the station's North East Line platform. When confronted, Lim brandished his knife and advanced towards Staff Sergeant (SSG) Azli Othman. Despite SSG Azli drawing his revolver and warning Lim not to advance further, Lim charged towards SSG Azli before firing a shot at his chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene and a coroner's inquiry in 2010 concluded that SSG Azli's action was justified.
7 July 2008					22-year-old movement operator Pathip Selvan s/o Sugumaran murdered his 18-year-old girlfriend and kindergarten teacher Jeevitha d/o Panippan in Ang Mo Kio West Garden. Before the murder, their relationship were deteriorating due to Jeevitha having gone out with many other men and Pathip's feelings of being cheated. It occurred when Jeevitha insulted Pathip, stating that her current lover performed better than Pathip when on bed with her, provoking Pathip who used a knife to stab her until she died. On 12 November 2010, Pathip, whose defence of grave and sudden provocation was rejected by the trial judge, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. However, upon filing an appeal, the Court of Appeal found Pathip not guilty of murder, as they accepted that he was indeed being gravely provoked by Jeevitha's insults and it caused him to lose self-control and kill the victim. As a result, on 15 August 2012, Pathip's death sentence was set aside, and he was instead sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
17 July 2008					A freelance masseuse named Tan Lay Lan was last seen alighting a cab with an unknown man near her flat in Chai Chee Avenue. 2 days later, a decaying odor from her flat led neighbours to her doorstep and when the police arrived at the flat, they were greeted with Tan's half-naked, decomposing body with injuries. An autopsy report certified that the victim died from strangulation. A 38-year-old neighbour by the name of Ng Cheng Hock remembered being awakened by noises of feet stamping and screams of a woman at 2 am. However, despite the clues, the murderer was never found.
27 July - 23 August 2008					18-year-old Fabian Adiu Edwin and 25-year-old Ellarry Puling, both Malaysian nationals, committed a series of robberies by targeting six victims between 27 July and 23 August that year. Their vicious robberies led to the death of one of their victims, 35-year-old security guard Loh Ee Hui. On 23 August, Fabian used a wooden stick to smack at Loh's head three times and stomped on his chest, while Ellarry acted as a lookout. Loh died in hospital from skull fractures. On 7 September that year, Fabian was arrested, followed by Ellarry the next day. In September 2011, Fabian was found guilty of murder and given the mandatory death sentence. However, in 2012, the mandatory death penalty law was revised. It reduces the sentence of death, for those convicted of drug trafficking or murder, to life imprisonment if conditions were met. This enabled Fabian to undergo a retrial and on 17 July 2013, he became the first person to have his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment under the revised death penalty. His young age and low IQ were factors which spared him from the gallows, although Fabian will also receive 24 strokes of the cane. In March 2012, Ellarry was found guilty of robbery with hurt and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane.
4 September 2008					The body of a pregnant lady was found stuffed under the bed in one of the hotel rooms in Geylang. The deceased was identified to be a 21-year-old Sri Lankan prostitute and she was also identified to be 7 months pregnant at the time of her death. She was dead for more than 24 hours before the discovery of her body. The victim's identity was withheld as she has two young sons aged between 6 and 2. Police found out that she had last checked in with a man. The next day, the man, Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy, who was the last person together with the prostitute, was arrested at a foreign workers dormitory in Amah Keng for the gruesome murder. Reddy, who worked in a shipbuilding company in Jurong, confessed to the police that he strangled the prostitute to death whilist an argument, and hid her body under the bed after taking her gold items and handphone, and even hid the victim's clothes and possessions in the toilet. On 11 January 2010, the 21-year-old pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and 3 days later, Reddy was sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.
4 September 2008					Chinese national and production technician Luo Fa Ming had stabbed his fellow countryman and colleague Gong Hui Long to death in their Henderson Road flat, over unsettled disputes and the unequal treatment he and Gong received at work (especially overtime, as Luo needed money more desperately than Gong, but was assigned to lesser tasks than the latter). He even went to the flat of his employer, only known as Ng, and bludgeoned her repeatedly with a hammer. After Ng fell unconscious, Luo set fire to her flat and left her in the burning flat with the assumption that she was dead. Ng managed to escape her flat and survived with timely intervention by medical treatment. Luo was later arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder. Luo was later found to be suffering from diminished responsibility through psychiatric assessments, effectively reducing his charges to one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and another of attempted culpable homicide not amounting to murder. On 2 November 2011, Luo was convicted of both charges and sentenced to a total of 24 years' imprisonment (18 years for killing Gong and 6 years for attempting to kill Ng).
November 2008					23-year-old drug trafficker Subashkaran Pragasam was caught carrying 9 packets of heroin, which contained a total of 186.62 grams of heroin. He was convicted of the crime and condemned to hang in October 2012. However, when changes to the law took effect in 2013, Subashkaran's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment with 15 strokes of the cane on 6 January 2014. Subashkaran Pragasam became the second drug trafficker to be spared the gallows after Yong Vui Kong.
September 2009					A drug trafficker Yip Mun Hei was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death for trafficking in around 18 grams of heroin. Eventually after spending more than four years on death row, in May 2014, the 42-year-old Singaporean was spared the gallows and was instead, given a life term with 15 strokes of the cane after changes to the law in 2013.
19 December 2009					26-year-old unemployed Malaysian Dinesh Pillai Reja Retnam, was paid RM200 to carry more than 19 grams of heroin across the Causeway. He was arrested and tried for drug trafficking. On 14 April 2011, Dinesh was found guilty and sentenced to death. He lost his appeal against his sentence, as well as a separate appeal against both his conviction and sentence. However, when changes to the law took effect in 2013, where drug traffickers with mental illnesses which impaired their responsibility for the crime must be given a life term without caning, Dinesh applied for re-sentencing. A psychiatric report certified that Dinesh was suffering from depression as a result of his fiancée breaking off their engagement and himself losing his job as a waiter, and this led to him suffering from lapses in his judgement and emotional control, which made him accepting the task to traffick heroin into Singapore during one of these emotional lapses. As a result, in March 2014, Dinesh was re-sentenced to life imprisonment. He became the first drug trafficker to be given a life sentence on the grounds of diminished responsibility when committing the crime.
15 March 2010					34-year-old Bijukumar Remadevi Nair Gopinathan murdered 30-year-old Filipino prostitute Roselyn Reyes Pascua by stabbing her multiple times in the chest, abdomen, neck and genital area. He even robbed the deceased of her handphone and cash amounting to $476.30. Gopinathan was arrested two days later and charged with murder. The following year, at the trial, Gopinathan put up the defence of sudden and grave provocation against the murder allegation, but it was rejected. Not just that, Justice Choo Han Teck determined in his judgement that Gopinathan had gone to Pascua's room with the intention of robbing and killing her. As such, the judge convict Gopinathan of murder under section 300(a) of the Penal Code (murder with intention to kill) and sentenced him to death on 26 March 2012. Gopinathan filed an appeal, and in September 2012, even though he was still convicted of murder, the Court of Appeal determined that Gopinathan committed murder by intentionally inflicting fatal injuries on the victim but with no intention to cause death, hence they still found him guilty of murder, but under section 300(c) of the Penal Code. When changes to the law took effect in 2013, where the amended law allows judges to impose a discretionary sentence of life imprisonment with/without caning other than the death penalty for offenders who commit murder but had no intention to kill, Gopinathan's case became one of the first two murder cases (the other being Kho Jabing) to be sent back to the High Court to be reviewed after Gopinathan's lawyer Shashi Nathan applied for re-sentencing. After reviewing over the case, on 28 August 2013, Gopinathan was re-sentenced to life imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane, effectively becoming the third convicted murderer on death row to be spared the gallows after Fabian Adiu Edwin (on 17 July 2013) and Kho Jabing (in mid-August 2013, about two weeks before Gopinathan's re-sentencing).
3 July 2010					23-year-old Calvin Tan Jian Wei, his 21-year-old younger brother Edwin Tan Jian An and their 20-year-old friend Ho Boon Sheng brought an intoxicated pub waitress whom Ho had contact with for a month in a hotel in Jiak Chuan Road on the night of 3–4 July 2010. All three men had molested the then-18-year-old waitress, and Ho raped the girl with the help of the Tan brothers. They were arrested in the morning of 4 July due to the concerned hotel staff having heard the screams from the victim and contacted the police. On 9 January 2015, Ho, then a father of two daughters, was sentenced to 13.5 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane for rape, while the Tan brothers were each sentenced to 11 years' jail and 8 strokes of the cane for abetting Ho to rape the victim.
16 May 2011					The dead body of Ruliyawati, an Indonesian domestic worker, was discovered in the rooftop water tank of a flat in Woodlands. A coroner's inquest found that she had drowned herself but the two wounds on her back were caused by her boyfriend, Bangladeshi national Mohammed Repon Mostafa. Repon, who was initially accused of her death, was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in 2013.
26 January 2012					30-year-old Mohamed Redha bin Abdul Mutalib murdered his 56-year-old mother Asnah bin Aziz by stabbing her multiple times with two kitchen knifes. Redha was later arrested and charged with murder. Psychiatric assessments revealed that Redha was suffering from substance-induced psychotic disorder (as a result of Redha's addiction and intoxication of cough syrup and Dextromethorphan), which caused him to experience delusions and was of unsound mind when he killed his mother. On 15 January 2016, nearly 2 years after the murder, Justice Tay Yong Kwang acquitted Mohamed Redha of murder on the grounds of temporary insanity, and sentenced him to be taken to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), where he will be serving indefinite detention under the President's Pleasure.
30-31 March 2012					37-year-old security guard Gabriel Lee Haw Ling murdered and decapitated his 24-year-old fiancée Elsie Lie Lek Chee in their Jurong West rented room. Lee was charged with murder, but after he was certified to be suffering from a brief psychotic disorder at the time of the murder, Lee pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and he was convicted of the charge. On 24 February 2017, Lee was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
28 May 2012					The police found the body of Mallika Jesudasan, 56, with neck injuries in a flat in Bukit Batok. Jesudasan was said to have been killed in a bedroom by her 31-year-old son, Sujay Solomon Sutherson, believed to be mentally ill. Sujay was convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on 15 September 2015 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
14 January 2013					45-year-old Mohamed Iskandar bin Ishak, who patronized the pub of 45-year-old Low Chuan Woo, in a fit of aggression and intoxication, sparked up a quarrel and even physically assaulted Low Chuan Woo (who tried to approach Iskandar to calm him down) by grabbing him on the neck and even tried to push his head against an iron gate. In a fit of impulse, Low, who managed to break free from Iskandar's grips, headed back into the pub and grabbed a knife, which he used to stab the man on the back and arm. As a result of these injuries, which proved fatal, Iskandar died shortly after being taken to hospital. Low was then arrested in connection of causing Iskandar's death. A year later, on 23 May 2014, Low was convicted of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Even though the prosecution argued for at least a sentence of 12 years' imprisonment with 3 strokes of the cane for Low; on the basis that he has become the aggressor after Iskandar in the incident, Justice Tay Yong Kwang sentenced Low to 4 years' imprisonment and also decided to not subject Low to caning, commenting that “the violence was practically forced out of him by (the deceased under) persistent provocation and assault” and agreeing with the defence counsel representing Low that Iskandar's aggresive and violent behaviour struck fear in Low for his life. Additionally, Low was also sentenced to serve another 8 months in prison for three charges of living off the earnings of female prostitutes and running his pub for prostitution.
16 November 2013					Tuti Aeliyah, a 28-year-old Indonesian domestic helper, stabbed and strangled her employer's daughter, 16-year-old Shameera Basha Noor Basha, to death. She was initially charged with murder, but the charge was reduced to culpable homicide after she was diagnosed to be suffering from severe depression with psychotic symptoms. The High Court found her guilty and sentenced her to 12 years imprisonment in May 2015.
25 November 2013					44-year-old Lim Ann Nee allegedly drowned her 17-month-old son, Emilien Lacroix, in the sea off East Coast Park and was charged with murder. She was found to be suffering from acute transient psychotic disorder and had her charge reduced to culpable homicide in 2014. On 24 March 2015, she was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal.
9 December 2013					Desperate for money to make instalment payment of his new flat, former car washer P. Mageswaran approached a family friend, 62-year-old Kanne Lactmy, in Yishun, wanting to borrow $2000 to $3000, but he was told that she did not have much money. When Lactmy went to brush her teeth, Mageswaran went to ransack the flat and found some jewellery, but before he could leave, he was caught on the act. Just when Madam Lactmy threatened to call her elder son, Mageswaran then used his right hand to cover her face with a pillow and suffocated the elderly woman to death with his left hand, to silence her. Mageswaran then pawned the jewellery, and spent some of the money on his new flat's installment payment while spending the rest on himself and his Malaysian wife. He was arrested on 17 December at the Woodlands Checkpoint on his way back to Singapore and charged with murder. In May 2017, Mageswaran, who was found to have low IQ and mental impairments which affected his control over his actions, was convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Despite the urgings of the prosecution (who described the case as one of the worst cases of culpable homicide) for the maximum sentence of life imprisonment on Mageswaran, Judicial Commissioner Hoo Sheau Peng sentenced Mageswaran to 18 years' imprisonment on 20 July 2017, commenting that the killing was a result of a robbery that gone wrong despite the vicious nature of the crime, disagreeing with the prosecution that this case was one of the worst cases of culpable homicide that warrants a life sentence. Mageswaran was not subjected to caning as he was 50 years old at the time of sentencing. The prosecution later filed an appeal for Mageswaran to be sentenced to life imprisonment, while Mageswaran filed an appeal for a lighter jail term. Both appeals were heard on the same day by the Court of Appeal. On 11 April 2019, the Court of Appeal dismissed both appeals, upholding Mageswaran's 18-year imprisonment sentence.
12 December 2013					33-year-old Jasvinder Kaur's decapitated body was found in Whampoa River. The body was topless and missing two arms, only dressed in a pair of black pants. 25-year-old forklift driver Gursharan Singh, was charged with murder, while the other suspect, 33-year-old Harvinder Singh, Kaur's husband, is on the run and on Interpol's wanted list. In July 2015, a coroner's court found that Kaur had been murdered by Harvinder Singh. In April 2015, Gursharan Singh was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for assisting Harvinder Singh in disposing Kaur's body and for failing to make a police report.
28 May 2014					A 44-year-old logistics executive named Azuar bin Ahamad was sentenced to a total of 37.5 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for more than 30 charges of rape, sexual assault, outrage of modesty, theft and possessing obscene material. Described as the "worst serial rapist ever dealt with in Singapore" by the prosecution, Azuar had drugged 22 women and committed sexual offences against his victims from December 2008 to August 2009. Justice Chan Seng Onn cited that Azuar, who was previously convicted for such crimes in 2003, would remain a danger to society if a long sentence is not meted out, additionally commenting that Azuar's crimes were clearly premediated and that he had not been truly remorseful over his crimes.
4 June 2014					51-year-old Andrea Tay Su Lin killed her 75-year-old mother, Rosaline Lim, at their flat in Ang Mo Kio. She then committed suicide by throwing herself out from the window. Tay had a poor relationship with her mother, whom she blamed for her grandmother's death.
21 August 2014					80-year-old Char Chin Fah was accused of murdering his daughter-in-law, 54-year-old Ong Guat Leng, in their home in Tampines. Char was remanded at Complex Medical Centre in Changi for psychiatric assessment in August 2014. Char pleaded guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (as he was found to be suffering from a mental condition) and sentenced to 8 years in jail in 2016.
17 December 2014					Zheng Xianghua, a Chinese national, stabbed himself after allegedly killing Wang Xueyan, also a Chinese national, in a flat in Tampines. He was charged with murder on 20 December 2014, but the charge was subsequently reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and Zheng was sentenced to 9 years' imprisonment on 11 April 2016.
23 May 2015					At the alley outside a pub in Selegie Road, 18-year-old Kelvin Gan Teck Xiang was brutally assaulted by 18-year-old Jeron Liew Wei Jie, who challenged him to a fight twice but to no avail. Liew continued to assault Gan even after the Malaysian fell unconscious until the boy's friends arrived to stop and restrain him. Gan suffered a broken skull and internal bleeding in his brain from the attack, and he died in the hospital five days later. Liew was arrested two days after the fatal assault and was charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt. On 18 April 2016, Liew was convicted of the unprovoked attack on the youth, as well as two other offences. Nearly four months later, on 11 August 2016, Liew was sentenced to a total of 8.5 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane. The other two crimes he was jointly tried with – robbery with hurt and drug consumption – which he committed earlier in 2015 and also before the assault, in addition to his previous criminal records since 2011, were taken into consideration during sentencing.
5 October 2015					Belgian national Philippe Graffart allegedly murdered his five-year-old son, Keryan Graffart, at their D'Leedon condominium along Farrer Road. The murder charge was later reduced to culpable homicide, and found that he suffered from major depressive disorder during a custody battle. On 1 August 2016, Philippe pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years jail on 22 August 2016.
22 November 2015					26-year-old Neo Chun Zheng murdered former Scoot air stewardess, 23-year-old Soh Yuan Lin, by stabbing her in the neck with a knife outside his HDB flat in Boon Lay. Neo pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and was sentenced to 13 years jail on 12 November 2018.
30 December 2015					64-year-old general practitioner Wee Teong Boo was alleged to have sexually assaulted a 23-year-old student in his clinic when she went for a consultation. The victim was not named to protect her identity. Initially charged with rape, the courts found him guilty of sexual assault by penetration, based on his admission that he inserted his ungloved finger, lubricated with his saliva into her vagina and that he had erectile dysfunction (which he claimed was a pelvic examination as he suspected the victim might have been suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)). As the victim claimed that she was molested by Wee a month prior to the incident as well, Wee was also convicted of molestation. On 27 February 2019, Justice Chua Lee Meng sentenced Wee to 10 years' imprisonment and to pay $1,200 as compensation to the victim. After filing an appeal, the Court of Appeal found that the testimonies given by the student were full of discrepancies and were incompatible with the prosecution's case etc., and thus they concluded that the High Court judge has erred in convicting Wee of the charges based on their review of the facts and evidence, therefore allowing Wee's appeal, acquitting the former doctor of the charges and hereby discharged him on 10 June 2020.
19 February 2016					25-year-old Muhammad Khairulanwar bin Rohmat, a final-year student from Singapore Institute of Management, was convicted under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act and sentenced to a total of 6 years and 3 months' imprisonment and fined $30,000 for recruiting two underage girls between 15 and 16 years of age for sexual exploitation and lure them into prostitution. Khairulanwar admitted to 4 out of 18 charges – 3 under the Act for recruiting a child under the age of 18 for sexual exploitation and receiving payment from the exploitation of one of these underage girls, and one under the Penal Code for sexual penetration of a minor under 16 years of age with consent – against him; the other 14 charges – involving Khairulanwar's trafficking of 7 other girls for prostitution and receiving payment from the earnings of his victims – were taken into consideration during sentencing. Muhammad Khairulanwar bin Rohmat was the first person to be tried and convicted under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act, which was newly enacted in March 2015 (under this Act, if someone recruits, harbours or conveys a child under the age of 18 for exploitation, whether abroad or not, he/she faces the maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, a fine of $100,000 and 6 strokes of the cane).
25 February 2016					50-year-old coffee-shop assistant Khor Tzoong Meng murdered 38-year-old Ang Kim Keat at Blk 23 Hougang Avenue 3. The murder charge was later reduced to culpable homicide. Khor pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight years jail on 31 July 2017.
13 March 2016					68-year-old Kong Peng Yee murdered his wife 63-year-old Wong Chik Yeok at Compassvale Crescent. The murder charge was reduced to culpable homicide as he suffered from a psychotic episode during the time of crime. On 16 October 2017, Kong was sentenced to two years jail. The case was appealed to the Court of Appeal, which increased the sentence to six years jail on 27 June 2018.
8 May 2016					30-year-old maid Maryani Usman Utar punched and strangled one-year-old Richelle Teo Yan Jia over what she perceived as poor treatment by her employers. Charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, Maryani was sentenced to 7-year jail in 2018.
11 July 2016					42-year-old Chua Meng Guan was stabbed repeatedly to death outside a pub at Jalan Besar by 50-year-old Oh Beng Yam. Oh then fled to Johor after the stabbing. As of 2018, Oh remained at large with his last known location being in Thailand.
13 July 2016					50-year-old Thennarasu Karupiah assaulted 55-year-old Arokiasamy Paul Rajoo at Taj Mahal Bollywood Music Lounge at Boat Quay. Arokiasamy died 3 days later due to the injuries sustained. In 2018, Thennarasu pleaded guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and was sentenced to 15 years and five months jail.
25/26 July 2016					58 year-old Prema S Naraynasamy and her daughter 36-year-old Gaiyathiri Murugaiyan allegedly killed 24-year-old Myanmar domestic worker Piang Ngaih Don at Block 145 Bishan Street 11 sometime between Jul 25 and 26. They were charged with murder.
11 October 2016					41-year-old Lim Ying Siang set fire to two styrofoam boxes at Block 493 market in Jurong West in the wee hours. The fire raged and burned the entire market. It also caused damages to two coffee shops nearby. 56 stall owners at Block 493 market lost their stalls and assets, with the overall loses from all parties amounting to more than S$6 million. Lim was arrested on 13 October 2016 and on 20 March 2018, he was sentenced to 11.5 years jail and 3 strokes of cane for committing mischief by fire and drug consumption. A temporary market was set up for displaced stallholders, with the new market sitting on the affected site which opened in December 2018.
12 March 2017					34-year-old Satheesh Kumar Manogaran and his 28-year-old cousin Naveen Lal Pillar were attacked by a group of 3 men – Muhammad Khalid bin Kamarudin, 21; Muhammad Faizal bin Md Jamal, 22; and Shawalludin bin Sa'adon, 26 – nearby St James Power Station, due to a previous conflict between Satheesh and one of the attackers, Shawalludin. Satheesh, who sustained several knife wounds, was pronounced dead in hospital while Naveen survived his injuries. The case was classified as murder. The group of three men, along with two other men – 27-year-old Muhammad Hisham bin Hassan (who brought the three men to Satheesh and Naveen's location) and 19-year-old Muhd Firdaus bin Abdullah – who harboured Khalid and Faizal, were all arrested and respectively charged with different offences. On 2 January 2018, Hisham was sent to jail for 18 months 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 6 years and 2 months' jail and 5 strokes of the cane for harbouring Khalid and Faizal, and for other unrelated offences. On 26 November 2018, Shawalludin was sentenced to 5.5 years' jail and 6 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 8.5 years' jail and 8 strokes of the cane for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Satheesh, with another charge of causing hurt to Naveen. As for Muhammad Khalid bin Kamarudin, who is now the sole gang member facing the charge of murder for causing Satheesh's death, he is currently pending trial for his crime. If convicted of murder, Khalid will possibly be sentenced to death.
21 June 2017					41-year-old Indonesian maid Khasanah murdered 79-year-old Chia Ngim Fong and his wife, 78-year-old Madam Chin Sek Fah at their flat in Bedok Reservoir. She fled Singapore for Batam before she was arrested in Indonesia. She was not extradited on the basis of the principle of personaliteit, which states that any citizen arrested in Indonesia for crimes overseas would be processed with its own legal system. Singapore authorities are working with Indonesia on this case.
28 July 2018					29-year-old Bangladeshi and former construction worker Sheikh Md Razan, having disguised himself as a Sikh by putting on a turban, entered a pawnshop in Boon Lay with an attempt to rob the shop. Using a fake gun and a newly-bought chopper, he tried to coerce the employees to hand over any valuables and money to him, but he left empty-handed after failing to do so (as the employees had either being frozen with fear or hid themselves). Before leaving the pawnshop, Sheikh also left behind a device which he claimed to be a "bomb belt" (which made the employees believed it was real). The bomb belt was later revealed to be a fake after the police's bomb experts tested it. After a 5-day-long manhunt, Sheikh, who shaved off his beard and went into hiding, was arrested on 1 August 2018 and subsequently charged with attempted armed robbery. He was also charged with overstaying in Singapore since December 2017, as well as using a forged work permit to obtain employment. On 30 September 2019, Sheikh, who pleaded guilty to the offences he committed, was sentenced to 3.5 years' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane.
29 July 2018					58-year-old Balachandran Kothandapani, 34-year-old Farizal Rahmat, and 44-year-old Murugan Joseph assaulted 32-year-old cook Revi Jose Vibin at a prata shop in Clementi. In an argument for not getting free prata, Balachandran slashed Revi. Murugan was sentenced to 13-month jail, in lieu of 6 strokes of cane as he was medically unfit. Farizal was sentenced to 8 months jail and 6 strokes of cane, in addition to a 400-day jail for committing the offence on remission order. Balachandran Kothandapani was sentenced to one-year jail with 3 months in lieu of 6 strokes of cane as he was above 50 and cannot be caned.
19 November 2018					64-year-old father Tan Tian Chye allegedly killed his 35-year-old daughter Desiree Tan Jiaping in his flat at Block 171 Bedok South Road. He was charged with murder and was undergoing psychiatric evaluation.
30 December 2018					A 34-year-old Indonesian female work permit holder was found dead at the Golden Dragon Hotel in Geylang. A 29-year-old Bangladeshi work permit holder was subsequently arrested and would be charged with murder. The now 30-year-old Bangladeshi, Ahmed Salim, was charged with murder on 2 January 2019.
17 January 2019					34-year-old M. Krishan allegedly murdered 40-year-old Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman at a flat at Block 693D Woodlands Avenue 6, with the former arrested on the same day. Krishan was subsequently charged on 18 January.
11 March 2019					A 23-year-old Malaysian work permit holder Yee Jing Man was arrested for allegedly murdering 30-year-old director Lin Xinjie, who was found dead at the International Furniture Centre at 62 Sungei Kadut Loop, together with 29-year-old director Li Mingqiao who was another injured victim. Yee was fired for the second time earlier that day for poor work attitude, which led him to attack Lin and Li. Yee was charged with murder two days later.
May 2019					Lawyer Jeffrey Ong Su Aun was the managing partner of law firm JLC Advisors. Ong could not be contacted after S$33.4 million from the escrow account of engineering firm Allied Technologies, which was parked in his law firm, may have been paid out by Ong without the prior knowledge of the engineering firm. He fled Singapore for Malaysia on 13 May before he went uncontactable on 16 May. He was arrested in Kuala Lumpur by the Royal Malaysian Police on 29 May before he was extradited back to Singapore the next day. Ong has been charged with cheating offences involving tricking CCJ Investments to disburse S$6 million, and forgery offences where he forged bank statements in order to conceal discrepancies.
8 October 2019					Muhammad Ikram Abdul Aziz, 24 was arrested in a joint operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau and the police at the void deck below his housing unit at Block 731 Jurong West Street 72 before being escorted to his home, where a loaded pistol was discovered. The following day, a second man, Amirul Asyraff Muhammad Junus, 25 was arrested for consorting with Ikram who was in possession of firearm. No drugs were found on the two of them. Both of them were charged for their respective offences.
27 October 2019					54-year-old Chinese national Wang Shuzhen allegedly murdered her husband, 63-year-old former policeman Teh Hock Pine at their flat at Block 633 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 in the early hours. Wang was arrested and charged the next day for murder.
3 January 2020					A former podiatrist from Melbourne, Paul Leslie Quirk, 48, murdered his wife, Christina Khoo Gek Hwa, 43, in their home at 125 Compassvale Bow. Screams were heard by neighbours and Quirk was seen armed with a big stick, hurling his dog off the balcony of his third-floor apartment. Khoo was found unresponsive, and was pronounced dead on the spot. The dog was found bloodied on the ground floor. Quirk was charged with murder, and was being remanded at Changi Prison for psychiatric observation.
5 February 2020					49-year-old Isham bin Kabuyi was sentenced to a total of 32 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for raping two teenage girls in late 2017. In earlier court proceedings before his date of conviction and sentencing, Isham was reported to have tried various ways to disrupt the court hearings like urinating and flashing his genitals in the court, defecating in his pants, smearing his faeces on his clothing and glass panel in the court. Additionally, Isham, who was previously convicted twice on sexual offences against teenage girls, also insisted his innocence despite the strong evidence and testimonies of his victims, claiming the victims had lied to frame him. A psychiatric report also showed that Isham tends to malinger, and in view of Isham's lack of remorse, high possibility to re-offend and his decision to remain silent when it comes to him giving evidence and make up his defence, Justice See Kee Oon handed down a 32-year-long prison term, in addition to the maximum of 24 strokes of the cane allowed by law. On 27 April of that same year, Isham, who would turn 50 by June, lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence.
21 February 2020					Two brothers convicted of drug trafficking in 6 February 2020 were sentenced on the same date; the elder brother Mohamed Mubin bin Abdul Rahman, aged 59, was sentenced to death while his 55-year-old younger brother Lokman bin Abdul Rahman was sentenced to life imprisonment. Lokman was the first of the brothers to be arrested for drug trafficking in September 2015 when he was found with two bundles containing a total of 39.28 grams of diamorphine, as well as other packets of drugs, on him. Lokman confessed to the police about his crime, stating he acted as courier for his brother in exchange for money, drugs and accommodation. Mubin, however, told police he never did so when they placed him under arrest in October of that same year, and alleged that Lokman gave false evidence to implicate him, as his younger brother wanted to get back at him because of a rivalry between both of them for the affections of his former wife, and that he wanted to escape the hangman's noose by obtaining the Certificate of Substantive Assistance (CSA) from the prosecution (anyone who helped authorities to disrupt drug trafficking activities within or outside Singapore would receive this certificate, which gave them the chance to escape the death penalty). In her written grounds of decision, Justice Valerie Thean stated that Lokman's testimony was consistent with those of the witnesses and the evidence presented, while dismissing Hubin's denials as lies, and that there was evidence to show there was no such rivalry between the brothers for the affections of Hubin's ex-wife, stating that Hubin's lies had corroborated his guilt, therefore sentencing Hubin to death while imposing a life sentence on Lokman for his cooperation with the police in their investigations. As he was above 50 at the time of sentencing, Lokman was spared the cane.