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On 16 October 2008, during a heated argument inside her car, 47-year-old Choo Xue Ying, alias Jennifer Choo, was assaulted to death by a business partner Rosli bin Yassin, and abandoned it at Bukit Batok Nature Park, where Choo's skeletal remains were discovered four days after her death. Rosli, who was later found to have committed cheating following the murder itself, was arrested and charged with killing Choo, and his girlfriend was also charged with abetting him to commit cheating. Rosli's murder charge was subsequently reduced to manslaughter, and after pleading guilty to the reduced charge and several other unrelated charges for cheating, Rosli was sentenced to 12 years of preventive detention on account of his long criminal record, and subsequently, through the prosecution's appeal, Rosli's sentence of preventive detention was raised to the maximum of 20 years for the same reason, as well as due to his high risk of re-offending and his original sentence was manifestly inadequate.
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- 1 2 "From the ST archives: Woman who died after brutal assault and rape had a bright future". The Straits Times. 2000-02-16. ISSN 0585-3923 . Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ↑ "Jogger was not raped". Today. 2003-07-02. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ↑ "Ep 1 Singapore Crime Statistics / Bukit Batok Rape & Murder". mewatch. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
- ↑ "$80,000 offer". The New Paper. 2000-03-29. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
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