Major crimes in Singapore
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This is a list of major crimes in Singapore:
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[edit] Crimes by chronology
[edit] 1960s
- 12 July 1963: The Pulau Senang prison riots saw the killing of four prisons officers by rioting prisoners. The unprecedently large court proceedings sentenced 18 to death. [1]
- 1965: Sunny Ang was convicted using situational evidence for the murder of bar maid Jenny Cheok, although her body was never found. [2]
[edit] 1970s
- 1971: The Gold Bars Triple Murders saw a gold merchant and his two employees robbed and killed. Seven men were sentenced to death for the crime. [3]
- 25 April 1978: Police national serviceman Lee Kim Lai was murdered for his revolver by Ong Chin Hock, Yeo Ching Boon and Ong Hwee Kuan. En route to kidnapping him from his sentry post at Mount Vernon, they also killed the taxi driver, Chew Theng Hin.
[edit] 1990s
- 4 May 1991: Filipina domestic worker Flor Contemplacion was hanged on 17 March 1995 for the murder of fellow worker Delia Maga and her 4-year-old charge, Nicholas Huang.
- 5 May 1994: American teenager Michael P. Fay was caned for vandalism and theft.
- 23 September 1994: Dutch national Johannes van Damme was hanged for smuggling heroin. He was the first European executed in Singapore since its independence.
- 8 March 1995 "Body parts murder" British national John Martin murdered South African Gerard George Lowe in a hotel room at the River View Hotel. John dismembered Gerard's body and disposed the body parts at the Singapore River, just behind the hotel where the pair shared a room.
[edit] 2000s
- 10 October 2004: 8-year-old Chinese national Huang Na was murdered and found stuffed into a box at Telok Blangah Hill Park. Malaysian Took Leng How admitted to the crime in court on 13 July 2005.
- 16 June 2005: Chinese national Liu Hong Mei's body was found in several pieces along the banks of Kallang River. Her supervisor, Leong Siew Chor, is the main suspect.
- 2 December 2005: Vietnamese-Australian Van Tuong Nguyen was hanged for smuggling heroin.[1]
- 15 February 2006: Singaporean Tan Chor Jin a.k.a "One-eyed dragon" shot and killed nightclub owner Lim Hock Soon at the latter's apartment at Serangoon Ave 4 in the wee hours of the morning. The weapon used was believed to be a Beretta 92. A total of 5 shots were fired.
- 26 January 2007: Nigerian national Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi was hanged for smuggling heroin.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Convicted Aussie drug trafficker Nguyen to hang on 2 Dec", Channel NewsAsia, November 17, 2005. Retrieved on February 10, 2007.
- ^ "Drug trafficker set to hang", News24, 2007-01-19. Retrieved on January 24, 2007.
