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violence generally suffer from what is known ings, revenge, jealousy, fear, desperation or Soo Suan came from a middle- as a pathological personality condition. religious fanaticism. class family and obtained his Senior Criminal or offender profiling (also has seen several promi- Cambridge Grade One school certificate in known as criminal investigative analy- nent cases over the last 50 years, 1955. He received a Colombo Plan scholar- sis) is sometimes used by the police to each unique in its own way. As there are ship in 1957 to train as a commercial airline explain the behavioural makeup of the too many cases to profile within the scope , but was subsequently dropped from perpetrator and identify likely suspects. of this article, we have selected only four the programme due to his arrogant and Careful study of the crime scene photos, cases – , John Martin Scripps, irresponsible behaviour. Ang also had a the physical and non-physical evidence, Sunny Ang and Adrian Lim – that span the history of theft, and was caught trying to the manner in which the victim was killed decades from the 1960s to 1990s. The first steal from a radio shop on 12 July 1962, or the body disposed of, witnesses’ state- two have been categorised as “crimes of only to be successfully defended by the ments, autopsy photos and forensic lab impulse” (also called “crimes of passion”, prominent criminal lawyer, David Mar- reports allow investigators to compile a usually driven by jealousy or murderous shall, and placed on probation. MURDER profile of the murderer. rage), while the latter two involved care- Ang was also a former Grand Prix The level of risk taken by the offender ful planning and malicious aforethought race car driver, and was ranked among and the degree of organisation (or disor- (called “instrumental crimes”, with the the top 10 in the 1961 Singapore Grand ganisation) of the crime scene can provide crime being the instrument to achieve a Prix. He was also a reckless driver, killing clues about the relationship between specific aim). a pedestrian shortly after the Grand Prix the perpetrator and victim, as well as event, claiming that the man had suddenly MOST the nature of their interactions prior to Sunny Ang: Murder for Greed appeared on the road. Ang became an the crime. Inferences can also be drawn undischarged bankrupt in October 1962; about the perpetrator’s emotional state he owed debts of more than $6,000 to of mind by examining the injuries left three parties and remained a bankrupt When: 27 , 5 pm on the victim’s body. Extensive injuries up to his death in 1967. Crime scene: Straits of Pulau Dua or excessive ligature markings usually Ang met Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid (Sisters’ Islands) point to a high level of rage or aggression. when she was employed as a waitress at The accused: Sunny Ang Soo Suan MALEVOLENT A meticulously constructed profile can the Odeon Bar and Restaurant. She was alias Anthony Ang, aged 28 become a useful tool to help the police a divorcee with two children, a son and The victim: Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid, recreate the crime scene and narrow a daughter. aged 22 Sunny Ang, Mimi Wong, Adrian Lim and John Martin Scripps down the scope of their investigations. On 27 August 1963, Ang and Cheok are some of the most cold-blooded murderers in Singapore’s Studies have shown that many mur- hired a boat at Jardine Steps for a scuba- ders arise from conflicts between people diving trip to Pulau Dua (Sisters’ Islands). “It seems there is a popular belief crime history. Sharon Teng revisits their horrific acts. who know each other, such as friends, At Ang’s instructions, the boatman Yusuf that there can be no murder unless lovers, spouses or family members. Some bin Ahmad dropped anchor in the mid- a body is produced. Nothing can be may resort to violence as an attempt to dle of the straits. Cheok suited up in her more fallacious and more untrue. A establish power or assert control over diving gear and descended into the sea, person can be convicted of murder the other person. Other may be only to surface less than 10 minutes later. without the body being found.” 4 precipitated by a psychological build-up of She then did a second dive after Ang had physical or emotional trauma over time as -Justice Murray Buttrose, the presiding exchanged her cylinder tank with another, well as anger, financial greed, sexual crav- High Court judge, 18 May 1965 claiming that the first tank contained insuf- There are few things more heinous than In 2015, the Singapore Police Force mysteries, forensic crime fiction, legal and ficient air. In the meantime, Ang stayed on a premeditated act of taking a human handled a total of 33,839 crime cases (or courtroom dramas, psychological thrillers board, claiming to have problems fixing a life. Under Singapore’s Penal Code Act 607 cases per 100,000 people), compared and police detective stories. Breaking news leak on his own tank. t(Cap. 224), culpable homicide is defined with 9,225,197 cases (or 2,870.2 cases per headlines of violent crimes, particularly When Cheok did not emerge after her as murder when the person who causes 100,000 people) reported in the United those involving murder, invariably attract second dive, Ang and Yusuf searched in death knowingly performs an act with States during the same year. “Crimes much public attention and invoke coffee- vain for air bubbles breaking on the water the intention of causing death or with against persons” (i.e. crimes in which the shop speculation and gossip. surface before heading to nearby St John’s the intention of causing injury leading to victim suffers bodily harm) constituted 12 What triggers an otherwise law- Island to call the Marine Police for help. death.1 In Singapore, murder is one of the percent. In the same year, there were 15 abiding citizen to go into a murderous rage Both men then picked up five Malay fisher- few crimes that warrants the mandatory cases of murder, the third lowest recorded and kill someone? In order to understand man divers from another nearby island to death penalty, besides drug trafficking in 20 years.3 why people are pushed over the edge, help search for Cheok. Even though Ang and firearms-related offences.2 homicide investigators, forensic psycholo- was a good swimmer and an experienced Singapore may be one of the safest A Murderous Mind gists, criminologists and law enforcement diver, he never entered the water once to countries in the world, but in spite of the professionals typically examine the different help search for Cheok. city-state’s tough stance against law- Crimes and criminals are objects of fas- elements of a homicide: whether the murder Divers from the Royal Navy and breakers and its unequivocal position on cination that have been fictionalised, was premeditated, the motivation of the RAF Changi Sub-Aqua Club conducted , every now and then romanticised, sensationalised, and given killer, the context of , the choice of several searches for Cheok’s body to no one hears about a horrifically violent act a larger-than-life presence in books, televi- the murder instrument used, details of the avail. Then, during a search operation of crime. sion and films based on whodunnit murder crime scene, and the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator. Sunny Ang, being led by police officers here, was Many psychological theories have been charged with the murder of Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid Sharon Teng is a Librarian with the National Library, Singapore. Her responsibilities include offered to explain criminal behaviour, such at sea off Pulau Dua (Sisters’ Islands) on 27 August managing the library’s social sciences and humanities collection, developing content, and 1963. This photo is dated 4 March 1965. Source: The providing reference and research services. as temporary insanity, mental deficiency and Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. defective personality traits. Perpetrators of Permission required for reproduction. 16 17 BIBLIOASIA JUL – SEP 2017 Vol. 13 / Issue 02 / Feature

the Insurance Company of North America. In 1979, Harvesters Film Distribution After Sim lost his job, Wong became in her plot to murder Ayako. Four days (Below) The straits of Pulau Dua (Sisters’ Islands) where Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid was murdered at around 5 pm on 27 August 1963. Photo taken by Ria Tan in August 2008. Courtesy of WildSingapore. And barely three hours before their dive and Production Pte Ltd announced that the sole breadwinner, supporting her hus- before the deed, Wong got together a tin (Bottom) Sunny Ang and his mother Madam Yeo Bee Neo (who was sole executor of the deceased's will) trip on 27 August, Ang extended the the Sunny Ang murder was slated to be band and two sons. In 1967, she started a of toilet cleaning liquid, a knife and a pair tried to hasten the coroner's inquiry into concluding that Jenny Cheok had drowned so that an insurance policy for a $150,000 protection to cover made into a Mandarin film estimated to new job as a towel girl at a Pasir Panjang of black gloves. At 9.30 pm on the night claim could be filed. The Straits Times, 5 March 1965, p.11. an additional five days starting from 11 cost $700,000. The actual names of the Road bar and became a waitress soon of 6 January 1970, Wong and Sim went to am on that day. key people involved in the case would be after. She later worked as a bargirl, sup- the Jalan Sea View house. Sim pretended Three days after Cheok’s disappea­ changed to avoid any legalities. plementing her income as a hostess and to be a workman who had come to repair rance, Ang informed Edward Lumley and The case was also featured in an social escort at night. a broken bathroom basin. When all three Sons that Cheok had been in a “tragic episode of the 13-part True Files, a docu- In 1966, Japanese mechanical engi- were standing near the bathroom on the accident”. On 14 October, Edward Lumley drama produced by Mediacorp that re- neer Hiroshi Watanabe was posted to second storey, Sim threw the cleaning received a lawyer’s letter informing them enacted high profile crimes of the last Singapore for work. He met Wong in liquid into Ayako’s eyes, temporarily that Ang’s mother, Madam Yeo Bee Neo, five decades, and telecast on 6 June 2002. October that year when she was working blinding her. Wong then stabbed Ayako was the sole executor of Cheok’s will. Ang as a bargirl at the Flamingo Nightclub at repeatedly with the knife and fled the also made efforts to hasten the coroner’s Mimi Wong: A Jealous Lover Kim Seng Road. They became intimate scene with Sim. inquiry into Cheok’s disappearance and soon after and Wong became Hiroshi’s When Hiroshi returned home at 10.30 seemed to be in a great hurry to have mistress in mid-1969, by which time she pm after his night shift, he discovered his her death confirmed for the purpose of When: 6 January 1970, 9.30 pm had been separated from her husband. slain wife lying in a pool of blood in the bath- claiming against her insurance policies. Crime scene: Bathroom of a Jalan Wong and Hiroshi first stayed in a rented room, with his three children crying outside. Ang was arrested on 21 December Sea View semi-detached house room in Alexandra Road before moving According to his nine-year-old daughter, 1964 and initially charged with Cheok’s The accused: Wong Weng Siu, alias to a house in Everitt Road. Chieko, their mother was attacked by murder the following day, but was given Mimi Wong, aged 34, and her hus- In September 1969, Hiroshi informed Wong and an unknown man. Chieko had a discharge not amounting to an acquit- band, Sim Woh Kum alias Sim Wor Wong that his wife, Ayako, and their three witnessed Sim and Wong manhandling tal on 30 December after his lawyer, Kum, aged 40 children would be joining him in Singapore. her mother while she was on the bathroom , argued that Ang The victim: Ayako Watanabe, aged 33 Wong was enraged by this and threatened floor, with blood drenching her chest. should not be kept in remand while wait- to harm his family. Hiroshi’s family arrived Ayako was found to have a total of nine ing for the prosecution to set a date for on 23 December 1969 and moved into a wounds: one on the right side of her neck that the preliminary hearing. About an hour By the time Mimi Wong was 14, she was house in Jalan Sea View. The next day, had severed the jugular vein, and another after his discharge, however, Ang was already working as a packer at a factory in Hiroshi told Ayako about his relationship in her stomach that had pierced her aorta. again charged for the same offence and Neil Road. She met Sim Woh Kum, then 17 with Wong. He even took his wife and Ayako also suffered defensive wounds on remanded in Outram . years old and a factory worker, at a picnic children to meet Wong on Christmas Day. her right hand, with finger cuts indicating Ang was tried in High Court before and they soon became a couple. Wong became extremely agitated as she that she had fought off her assailant. Justice Murray Buttrose and a seven-man Wong and Sim got married in 1958 feared that Hiroshi would put an end to Sim and Wong were arrested on 7 and . The prosecution was led by Senior when she was only 19. Raised by her step- their relationship now that his family was 8 January 1970 respectively after they were Crown Counsel and assisted mother, Wong had been bullied and beaten here. Indeed, Hiroshi had told his wife that singled out by Chieko at an identification by Syed Alwee bin Ahmad. On the second as a young girl, but after her marriage, he was making efforts to distance himself parade. Their joint , which began on day of the trial on 27 April 1965, the court she became the aggressive party: she from Wong but was forced to proceed with 2 November the same year, was presided by was informed that Cheok had made a will was reported to have physically abused caution due to Wong's fiery temper. Justice Tan Ah Tah and Justice . in the presence of Ang on 7 August 1963 her husband and her mother-in-law on Wong decided to hatch a plan with N. C. Goho and John Tan Chor-Yong were and had appointed Ang’s mother, Madam several occasions. her estranged husband, asking him to help assigned by the Supreme Court as Wong’s Yeo, as the sole beneficiary. This was and Sim’s defence lawyers respectively. bizarre as Cheok had never met Madam Then Solicitor-General Francis Seow was Yeo, according to Cheok’s half-sister, Irene. the lead prosecutor. In the prosecution’s summation of During the trial, Wong pushed the on 3 September, a flipper was found on and were considered challenging even for the case on 18 May 1965, Ang was alleged blame entirely on Sim for Ayako’s murder, the ocean floor at a depth of 45 feet, near experienced divers; in fact the area was to have murdered Cheok by tampering confessing only to slapping and shoving the spot where Cheok was last seen. The regarded as an unsuitable site for swim- with her diving equipment, causing her to the victim but not stabbing her. Sim was flipper’s strap was found with clean cuts, ming, let alone scuba-diving. Cheok’s half- drown. His motive was clear: to collect the vehement in his protest that it was Wong which could only have been done with a sister, Irene Toh, and the boatman, Yusuf, huge payouts from insurance policies he who had masterminded the entire heinous razor blade, a knife or a pair of scissors. both corroborated that Cheok was a poor had taken out on Cheok less than a month plot and stabbed the victim repeatedly. Laboratory tests later confirmed that the swimmer and a novice scuba diver. At the before her death. After a marathon 26-day trial, both cuts were unlikely to have been caused by time of her disappearance at 5 pm on 27 After an intense 13-day trial, the Wong and Sim were convicted of kill- corals. The flipper was identified as one August 1963, there was a strong current seven-men jury deliberated for two hours ing Ayako, and sentenced to death on 7 of a pair which Ang’s younger brother, running along the Pulau Dua straits. Ang and returned with a unanimous guilty December 1970. William, had borrowed from his class- had deliberately scheduled the dive trip verdict. Ang was sentenced to death on The pair made three rounds of mate, David Benjamin Woodworth. The on Tuesday − a workday afternoon when it 18 May 1965 and hanged at 5.55 am on 7 appeals between 1972 and 1973 to have prosecution concluded that it was one was unlikely for people to be in the vicinity. February 1967. their death sentences commuted to life of the flippers worn by Cheok during her About a month before Cheok’s disap- The Sunny Ang murder case was the , but were unsuccessful. fateful dive. pearance, Ang had signed up his girlfriend first tried in Singapore and that The couple was hanged at dawn on 27 July According to an expert witness, the for four accident insurance policies total- was based entirely on circumstantial evi- sudden loss of a flipper would adversely ling $350,000 from two insurance com- dence, as the victim’s body was never found affect a diver’s stability and mobility panies: Edward Lumley and Sons (M) Ltd, and there were no witnesses to the crime. Mimi Wong and her husband Sim Woh Kum were Ang was also one of the last murderers to sentenced to death on 7 December 1970 for the underwater. Other witnesses called to the and American International Underwriters murder of Ayako Watanabe. Wong was the mistress stand testified that the waters surrounding Ltd. On 14 August, Ang insured Cheok for be tried by jury in Singapore − before jury of the Japanese woman's husband. The Straits Sisters’ Islands had a strong , a further $100,000 accident coverage with were abolished in 1969. Times, 8 December 1970, p.1.

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1973 at , after a 32-month Between 1976 and 1978, Lim and Tan Depressed after her husband’s death, Hoe she had been sexually assaulted before stay of execution. got together to perform risqué striptease began hearing voices and hallucinating, being suffocated. Wong became the first woman to be acts at various nightclubs in Singapore, and soon developed suicidal tendencies; The next victim was Ghazali bin sentenced to death in post-Independence , Ipoh and . Tan she was later diagnosed as suffering from Marzuki, a Primary Four student and the Singapore. Wong and Sim were also the married Adrian on 11 June 1977, his first schizophrenia. Hoe also endured physical eldest in a family of three children. On 7 first couple in Singapore to be jointly wife having divorced him a year earlier. assaults from both Lim and Tan, including February 1981, his body was discovered executed for murder. Their relationship both before and after electric shock treatments. under a tree located between blocks 10 and The Mimi Wong murder case has marriage was an unhappy one, with Tan On 7 November 1980, Lim was 11 of Toa Payoh Lorong 7. He had died from been featured in three books on true having to endure frequent beatings, elec- accused of raping a part-time cosmetics drowning. This time, the police found drops Singapore crimes: Sisters in Crime (1992) tric shock treatments and the indignity of salesgirl and beautician, Lucy Lau Kok of blood leading to Lim’s seven-storey flat by journalist Sumiko Tan; Murder is My her husband’s promiscuity. Huat. He was arrested, only to be later in Block 12, with more blood discovered Business: Medical Investigations into Into this relationship entered a third released on bail. Furious at being called up inside the flat. Tests later confirmed that Crime (1999), a book co-written by the party: Hoe Kah Hong. She came from an for investigation by the police and asked to the blood was of human origin. late forensic pathologist, Chao Tze Cheng impoverished family and had been ill- report fortnightly to the Toa Payoh Police Inside the flat, the police found other and former journalist Audrey Perera; and treated by her own family while growing Station to extend his bail, Lim decided to incriminating evidence: pieces of paper Guilty as Charged: 25 Crimes That Have up. Hoe met Lim in 1979 while accompany- kill innocent children out of revenge. His with the children’s names and telephone Shaken Singapore Since 1965 (2015). ing her mother and sister for a consulta- motive (or so he claimed) was to confuse numbers, strands of hair, books on witch- The case was also featured in episode tion. Deluded by Lim’s lies that she was the police and divert their attention from craft, newspaper clippings of human two of True Files, which was shown on possessed by evil spirits, Hoe ended up the rape allegation. sacrifice, and bloodstained Hindu idols. Channel 5 on 30 April 2002. as one of his “holy” wives5 even though His first victim was Agnes Ng Siew Traces of blood (the same as Ghazali’s she was already married, and went to live Heok, a Primary Three student and the blood group) were also found on Lim’s by N. G. Kutty, were published within two included more than 20 counts of burglary, Adrian Lim: The Ritual Child Murders with Lim and Tan in their Toa Payoh flat. youngest in a family of nine children. shorts and handkerchief. The trio were months of the . Two other books, two cases of resisting arrest and one count On 7 January 1980, Lim lured Hoe’s Her body was found in a luggage left on arrested on 7 February 1981 and taken I Confess, and the sequel, Was Adrian Lim of outrage of modesty. He had also been husband, Benson Low Ngak Hua, to his the ground floor lift landing at Block 11, to CID headquarters for questioning. Mad?, both by Sit Yin Fong, followed soon arrested twice for drug smuggling, in 1987 When: 25 January 1981 (Agnes' mur- flat and electrocuted him to death, casting Toa Payoh Lorong 7, on 25 January 1981. Under interrogation, Tan was the first to after. The story also merited inclusion and 1992, but had escaped while on parole der) and 6 February 1981 (Ghazali’s the blame on an evil spirit residing in Hoe. The autopsy report later revealed that confess, followed by Lim and Hoe. They in a 2013 book compilation of the most from prison. murder) were charged in court with the murders vicious murders in Singapore by Yeo Suan In October 1994, Scripps was wanted Crime scene: A seventh-storey flat in (Below) Crowds outside the High Court during Adrian Lim’s 42-day trial. All rights reserved, Kutty, N. of the two children within 24 hours of Futt titled Murder Most Foul: Strangled, for questioning after a dismembered body Block 12, Toa Payoh Lorong 7 G. (1989). Adrian Lim's Beastly Killings (p. 151). Singapore: Aequitas Management Consultants. (Call no.: their arrest. Poisoned and Dismembered in Singapore. of a male homosexual was found in a rub- The accused: Adrian Lim, aged 46; RCLOS 364.1523095957 KUT) Lim and Tan were also charged The case inspired two films: Medium bish bin in San Francisco. A month later, Catherine Tan Mui Choo, aged 32; (Bottom) Adrian Lim claimed to have murdered two innocent children, Agnes Ng Siew Heok and Ghazali with the murder of Hoe’s husband. The Rare and God or Dog. Loosely based on he became a murder suspect in Mexico Hoe Kah Hong, aged 33 bin Marzuki, out of revenge for being accused of raping cosmetics salesgirl Lucy Lau Kok Huat. It was a defence’s argument of diminished respon- the Adrian Lim ritual murders, Medium City when a British tourist, Tim McDowell, flimsy excuse that made no sense, and was thrown out in court.The Straits Times, 5 April 1983, p. 12. The victims: Agnes Ng Siew Heok, (Facing page) Adrian Lim’s Beastly Killings by N.G. Kutty and Unholy Trinity by Alan John were published sibility was rejected by both presiding Rare was Singapore's first full-length aged 28, was found dead. aged 9; Ghazali bin Marzuki, aged 10 within two months of the of the murderers. All rights reserved, Aequitas Management Consul- judges, Justice Sinnathuray and Justice F. English-language film, and premiered Scripps arrived in Singapore on 8 tants, 1989 and Times Books International, 1989. A. Chua. At the end of a lengthy trial that in local theatres on 28 November 1991. March 1995 using a passport belong- began on 27 March 1983, the trio were A commercial flop, the movie received ing to a Simon James Davis. At Changi The Adrian Lim murder case is considered sentenced to death two months later on scathing reviews for its weak script, slow Airport, he met South African tourist one of Singapore’s most infamous and 25 May. Lim declined to appeal against pacing and unprofessional editing. God or George Gerard Lowe. Both agreed to abominable, involving three cold-blooded his sentencing. Tan’s and Hoe’s three Dog first premiered at the 1997 Singapore share a hotel room to save costs. Shortly killers, bizarre occult practices, blood separate appeals were dismissed as they International Film Festival before it was after checking into a room at River View sacrifices, sexual perversion, electric were deemed mentally sound at the time screened in local cinemas. The film was Hotel, Scripps clubbed Lowe over the head shock torture, consumption of human and of the killings. roundly criticised for its scenes of gratui- with a 1.5-kg hammer and within an hour, animal blood as well as the ritual killings All three were hanged at dawn on 25 tous sex and nudity. had dismembered his head, torso, arms, of two children. November 1988, and their bodies cremated thighs and legs in the bathtub. The body Adrian Lim was the eldest son from at Mount Vernon Crematorium. John Martin Scripps: The Body parts were tied up in trash bags, packed a middle-class family. A divorced father The shocking nature of the crime and Parts ­Murderer in Lowe’s suitcase and a smaller bag, and of two, he was a self-proclaimed medium the ensuing media reports saw hordes placed in the wardrobe. who had developed a deep interest in the of packing the courtroom, Scripps then went on a two-day shop- occult since his teenage years. Lim also beginning with the preliminary inquiry in ping spree using Lowe’s money and credit When: Between noon, 8 March and read extensively on Hinduism, Buddhism September 1981 and throughout the trial card. Prior to checking out of the hotel on 8 am, 9 March 1995 and Christianity. Over time, he became the held two years later in 1983. 11 March, Scripps dumped the contents of Crime scene: A room in River View consummate confidence trickster, preying On verdict day, the crowds spilled the suitcase into the Singapore River. The Hotel (now renamed Four Points by on desperate, emotionally troubled and over from the courtroom to the surround- contents of the other bag were also disposed Sheraton, Riverview) gullible women seeking help − in return ings of the Supreme Court, requiring the of before being abandoned at the Thomas The accused: John Martin Scripps, for money and sex. police to cordon off the area. Cheers rang Cook office in Anson Road. The bag was left aged 35 Catherine Tan Mui Choo, then 18 years out when the verdict was announced. The empty save for a bottle of Lynx deodorant The victim: Gerard George Lowe, old, was a bargirl working at Champagne trial, lasting a total of 41 days, was the used to cover up the smell of rotting flesh. aged 33 Bar in Anson Road when she met Lim. second longest in Singapore.6 He then flew to Bangkok on 11 March. Depressed over family problems, Tan had The Adrian Lim case received exten- On 13 March, a black plastic trash bag initially sought Lim’s help in reading her sive coverage in print, with four books on Born in England as John Martin Scripps, containing severed legs was found near fortune. They soon developed an intimate the subject. Publishers raced to be the first the Englishman legally changed his name Clifford Pier by a boatman. The torso and relationship, with Tan supporting her boy- to publish a book on the bizarre murders to John Martin when he was in his 20s. thighs were found three days later, also friend with her earnings from prostitution and two of them, Unholy Trinity by Alan Scripps had had many run-ins with the in plastic bags. The head and arms never and from her night job as a lounge hostess. John, and Adrian Lim’s Beastly Killings law as a teenager. His criminal resume surfaced. The torso and legs were positively

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Singapore: identified by Lowe’s wife and DNA tests charge of the prison butchery until he was • Lim Ban Lin’s killing of a police officer Times, p.1. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Aequitas Management Consultants. (Call no.: RCLOS confirmed his identity. transferred to another prison. in 1968. He became the most wanted That flipper – by man flown from England. (1965, May 8). 364.1523095957 KUT) Police were aided in their investiga- In his defence, Scripps confessed criminal in Singapore and Malaysia, The Straits Times, p. 11. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Sit, Y. F. (1989). I confess. Singapore: Heinemann Asia. (Call no.: RSING 364.1523095957 SIT) tions by a person report from that he had unintentionally killed Lowe and was gunned down in 1972. Notes Mimi Wong Sit, Y. F. (1989). Was Adrian Lim mad? Singapore: South Africa. Once Lowe’s identity was by bludgeoning his head with a hammer • The "tontine killing" in 1974 where a 1 Singapore. The statutes of the Republic of Singapore. Davidson, B. (1973, July 24). Sheares rejects Mimi’s plea Heinemann Asia. (Call no.: RSING 345.5957067 SIT) ascertained, the police were able to during a heated argument, but maintained 44-year-old housewife, Sim Joo Keow, (2008 Rev. ed.). Penal Code Act (Cap. 224, p. 124). for mercy. The Straits Times, p. 1. Retrieved from Tan, S. (1997, March 21). 3 homegrown films to be screened Singapore: [s.n.]. (Call no.: RCLOS 348.5957 SIN) trace Scripps’ activities between 8 and his claim to the end that a British friend killed and dismembered her 53-year-old NewspaperSG. commercially. The Straits Times, p. 7. Retrieved from 2 Yong, C. (2016, December 9). Most S’poreans support Hwang, T. F. (1970, November 4). Nightclub waitress NewspaperSG. 11 March, using hotel and credit card had disposed of Lowe’s body. sister-in-law, Kwek Lee Eng, over money death penalty, but less so for certain cases: Survey. on murder trial collapses. The Straits Times, p. 15. Yeo, S. F. (2013). Murder most foul: Strangled, poisoned and transaction records. Traces of blood were At the end of the 17-day trial on 10 owed by the former. The dismembered The Straits Times. Retrieved from Factiva via NLB’s Retrieved from NewspaperSG. dismembered in Singapore (pp. 115–126). Singapore: also found on the wall tiles, the door and November 1995, Scripps was pronounced body parts were uncovered in three eResources website. Hwang, T. F. (1970, December 8). Death for Mimi and her Marshall Cavendish Editions. (Call no.: RSING on the underside of the toilet bowl in the guilty of murdering and dismembering locations: in a disused toilet at Aljunied 3 Singapore Police Force. (2016, September). Annual crime husband. The Straits Times, p. 1. Retrieved from 364.1523095957 YEO) brief 2015. (pp. 1, 5). Retrieved from Singapore Police bathroom of the room where the murder Lowe, and sentenced to death. Road, along the banks of the Kallang NewspaperSG. Force website; Singapore Police Force. (2015). Singapore Hwang, T. F. (1972, July 23). Appeal of Mimi Wong and her John Martin Scripps took place. He filed an appeal against his con- River, and in Sim’s house in Jalan Besar. Police Force Annual 2015 (pp. 83–84). Retrieved from husband (both under death ) is dismissed. The Body in bag picked up from sea off Clifford Pier. (1995, April Meanwhile, between 19 and 24 March, viction on 13 November but gave up his • The slaughter of the four children from Singapore Police Force website; Nokman, F. S. (2016, Straits Times, p. 4. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. 2). The Straits Times, p. 3. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. the dismembered body parts of Canadian right to appeal on 8 January 1996. He the Tan family in 1979, all of whom were December 20). Crime index goes down, but perception Elengovan. (1970, November 7). ‘She cried out to me she Body parts: Anatomy of a killing. (1995, November 12). The of safety remains low. Retrieved from New Straits Times tourists, school teacher Sheila Damud and also declined to file a clemency plea with under the age of 10. Dubbed the Gey- wanted to die’. The Singapore Herald, p. 13. Retrieved Straits Times, p. 12. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. website; United States crime rates 1960 - 2015. (2015). from NewspaperSG. Grisly finds near the pier. (1995, April 5).The New Paper, p. her son Darin, were discovered in Phuket. then President Ong Teng Cheong. On 15 lang Bahru murder, the case remains Retrieved from Disaster Center website. ‘I heard Mother screaming in pain’. (1970, November 6). The 6. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. They had checked in at the same hotel in April 1996, Scripps’ date of execution was unsolved to this day. 4 Chia, P., & Sam, J. (1965, May 18). Jury told: Dismiss this Singapore Herald, p. 13. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Guilty as charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, Phuket as Scripps did on 15 March. Scripps announced by the British Foreign Office • The 1983 Andrew Road murders com- fallacy completely from your minds. The Straits Times, Latest. (1973, March 16). The Straits Times, p. 1. Retrieved then butchered them. (2016, May 16). The Straits Times. was arrested at Changi Airport on 19 March – he was the first Briton to be convicted mitted by Sek Kim Wah, who had killed p. 9. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. from NewspaperSG. Retrieved from Factiva via NLB’s eResources website. 5 In court, Adrian revealed that he had up to as many as when he returned to Singapore. On 24 of murder and sentenced to death in Sin- five people during robbery attempts. Mimi and husband go to the gallows. (1973, July 28). The Lim, Y. (1995, March 30). Second time on the run. The New 40 “holy wives” whom he had married in front of the Straits Times, p. 7. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Paper, p. 2. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. March he was charged with the murder gapore − and he was hanged at Changi • The 1984 "curry murder" where Aya- altar at his flat, with the altar idols as the only witnesses Mimi struck Mrs. W with ‘glimmering object’ says husband. Martin files appeal against conviction. (1995, November 17). of Gerard George Lowe. Prison at 6 am on 19 April 1996. kanno Marimuthu, 38, was clubbed to the matrimonial ceremony. (1970, November 27). The Straits Times, p. 19. Retrieved The Straits Times, p. 41. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. During Scripps’ arrest, knives, a The police took just 11 days to solve to death, chopped up, cooked in curry 6 The 62-day Pulau Senang trial in 1963 holds the record from NewspaperSG. Miller, B. (1995, November 11). Martin’s last ‘Hello’ then off for being the longest trial in Singapore. Eighteen among hammer, an electrical stun device, hand- the case from the date of Lowe’s murder. and dumped in roadside dustbins. His ‘Mimi was of sound mind on day of killing’. (1970, to date with death. The New Paper, p. 12. Retrieved from the 59 criminals charged were convicted of rioting December 3). The Straits Times, p. 11. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. cuffs and six passports were found in his The murder case was documented alleged murderers were his wife and her and arson at the experimental island penal colony and NewspaperSG. Tan, O. B. (1996, March 10). ‘Body parts’ murderer will not possession – Lowe’s, one with the name in the book Body Parts: A British Serial relatives. All six suspects were charged sentenced to be hanged. Mimi Wong’s execution was a grim ‘first’. (1979, petition for presidential pardon. The Straits Times, p. “John Martin”, two bearing the name Killer in Singapore (1996). Written by Tan with murder in March 1987, but were 7 Yaw, Y. C. (1995, October 4). ‘This is a perfect instrument December 23). The Straits Times, p. 7. Retrieved from 29. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. “Simon James Davis” and the two belong- Ooi Boon, the crime reporter with The later given a discharge not amounting for deboning’. The New Paper, p. 10. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Tan, O. B. (1995, March 30). Accused in South African NewspaperSG. ing to the Canadian tourists in Phuket. Straits Times who first uncovered Scripps’ to an due to lack of evidence. Mimi’s hubby refused leave to appeal. (1973, February 2). murder case jailed for drug possession in London. The New Nation, p. 3. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Straits Times, p. 3. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. The two flick knives with jagged edges, shocking murders in March 1995, the book • The killing and dismemberment of References Page 15 Miscellaneous Column 1. (2002, April 30). The Tan, O. B. (1995, October 5). Martin: I hit Lowe, but friend according to senior forensic pathologist, delves into the psyche of the monster who 22-year-old Chinese national Liu Hong Campbell, J. H., & DeNevi, D. (2004). Profilers: Leading Straits Times, p. 15. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. disposed of body. The Straits Times, p. 37. Retrieved Chao Tzee Cheng, and experienced prison had cold-bloodedly killed and dismem- Mei by her 50 year-old married lover investigators take you inside the criminal mind. Amherst, Seah, L. (2002, May 6). Chilling, but little bite. The Straits from NewspaperSG. butcher, James Quigley, were “sufficient bered his victims. and supervisor, Leong Siew Chor, to N.Y.: Prometheus Books. (Call no.: R 363.25 PRO) Times, p. 6. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Tan, O. B. (1996, April 20). Martin hanged, leaving behind Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (1996). Profiling violent 7 Singh, P. (1978, February 26). The quadrangle of love – and death. mystery over another ‘victim’. The Straits Times, p. 25. to dismember Mr Lowe’s body”. The hide the theft of an ATM card. The 2005 crimes: An investigative tool. Thousand Oaks: Sage The Straits Times, p. 11. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. personal belongings of the Canadians and Other Notable Murder Cases murder came to light when parts of her Publications. (Call no.: R 363.25 HOL) Chao, T. Z. (1990, September 5). Solving bathroom murder. Wanted in 3 continents…. (1995, March 30). The New Paper, Lowe were also recovered. body surfaced at the Kallang River. The Stone, M. (2009). The anatomy of evil. Amherst, N.Y.: The New Paper, p. 10. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. p. 2. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. During the court trial, it was revealed Many more murders exist in Singapore’s crime became known as the Kallang Prometheus Books. (Call no.: R 364.3 STO) Star witness Chieko proved the killing: Seow. (1970, December What his mum says. (1995, November 13). The New Paper, that Scripps had learned butchering skills crime annals beyond the four mur- body parts murder. 8). The Straits Times, p. 17. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. p. 5. Retrieved from NewspaperSG. Sunny Ang Wee, B. H., & Mohan, B. 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