List of major crimes in Singapore

This is a list of major crimes in Singapore:

Crimes by chronology

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]

• 27 August 1963: Sunny Ang was convicted using situational evidence for the murder of bar maid Jenny Cheok, although her body was never found. [2]

1970s

• 29 December 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.

• 6 January 1979: Four children (aged five, six, eight and ten) of the Tan family in the Geylang Bahru district are discovered murdered in their flat. The case remains unsolved (http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19790107.2.3.aspx).

1980s

• 25 January 1981: In the Toa Payoh ritual murders, the body of a nine-year-old girl was found dumped next to the lift of a block of flats in the Toa Payoh district and, two weeks later, a ten-year-old boy was found dead nearby.

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.

• September 1993: Chong Poh Choon and his wife murdered their three children at their Bukit Batok flats and then attempted suicide.

• 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: In a case that became known as the "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.

2000s

• 2 January 2002: "Orchard Towers double murder": Michael McCrea, a British expatriate in his 40s murdered his driver friend Kho Nai Guan and the latter's girlfriend Susie Lan in a condominium in the classy Balmoral area. After the murders, the bodies of the two deceased were left inside a car which was later abandoned at Orchard Towers.

• 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 early 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]

Notes

1. ^ "Convicted Aussie drug trafficker Nguyen to hang on 2 Dec". Channel NewsAsia. November 17, 2005. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/179180/1/.html. Retrieved 2007-02-10. 
2. ^ "Drug trafficker set to hang". News24. 2007-01-19. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2056806,00.html. Retrieved 2007-01-24.