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The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore that happened in 2020 and beyond. They are arranged in chronological order.
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On the early morning of 31 May 2001, 17-year-old national footballer Sulaiman bin Hashim, along with his two friends were attacked by a group of eight youths from gang 369, known as Salakau, as they were walking along South Bridge Road, Clarke Quay, Singapore. Sulaiman was grievously assaulted by the gang while his two friends managed to escape. During the assault, Sulaiman sustained 13 stab wounds and two of them were fatal; he died as a result. The case was classified as murder and within the next 13 months, six of the gang members involved were arrested and eventually sentenced to jail and caning for culpable homicide, rioting and voluntarily causing grievous hurt. However, till today, the remaining two assailants were never caught.
On 30 October 2010, at Downtown East, Singapore, 19-year-old Darren Ng Wei Jie, a Singaporean student from Republic Polytechnic, was slashed by 12 youths from a rival gang after a staring incident between one of Ng's friends and one of these youths attacking him. Ng suffered from 28 knife wounds and died in Changi General Hospital five hours after the incident. The case was classified as murder, and the police arrested all the suspects. Six of them were charged with murder, but all except one were sentenced to serve lengthy jail terms with caning for culpable homicide, while the others were sentenced to varied jail terms and caning for rioting.
The President's Pleasure (TPP) in Singapore was a practice of indefinite imprisonment formerly applied to offenders who were convicted of capital offences but were below the age of 18 at the time of their crimes. Such offenders were not sentenced to death in accordance with the death penalty laws in Singapore; they were instead indefinitely detained by order of the President of Singapore. This is similarly practised contemporarily for offenders who were of unsound mind when they committed their crimes, who are thus indefinitely detained at prisons or medical facilities in Singapore.
On the morning of 26 July 2016, Burmese maid Piang Ngaih Don was found tortured, starved and beaten to death in a flat in Bishan, Singapore.
On 2 December 2001, a 19-year-old Indonesian maid, Muawanatul Chasanah, was found beaten to death in a house by the Bedok Reservoir, Singapore.
On 19 July 2021, a thirteen-year old Secondary One male student named Ethan Hun Zhe Kai was struck to death with a combat fire fighting axe at River Valley High School in Boon Lay, Singapore, in an incident which was reportedly unprecedented in the history of Singapore. The killer was a sixteen-year-old Secondary Four male student, who was arrested for Ethan's murder shortly afterwards. The boy was initially charged with murdering Ethan; his charge was eventually reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and he was thus sentenced to jail for 16 years on 1 December 2023.
The Orchard Towers double murders was the case of two deaths occurring at Balmoral Park, Singapore, before the victims' bodies were discovered at a carpark in Orchard Towers, thus the title of the case. The victims were 46-year-old Kho Nai Guan and Kho's 29-year-old Chinese girlfriend Lan Ya Ming, and they were both murdered by Kho's British employer Michael McCrea. McCrea was assisted by his girlfriend Audrey Ong Pei Ling in disposing of the bodies before they both fled Singapore to Australia, where they were caught.
The 2019 Orchard Towers murder was a murder case where a group of men killed 31-year-old Satheesh Noel Gobidass, who sustained several knife wounds and died at Orchard Towers on 2 July 2019. The murder was not the first case that involved the Orchard Towers. In 2002, the case of British expatriate Michael McCrea killing his friend and another person before disposing of the bodies at Orchard Towers was another that associated the Orchard Towers with murder. In the end, McCrea was sentenced by the courts to serve 24 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
On 13 March 1997, at one of the HDB flats in King George's Avenue, Kallang, 53-year-old Sivapackiam Veerappan Rengasamy was discovered dead in her bedroom by her son. Sivapackiam was found to have been stabbed three times in the neck and she died from the wounds. During police investigations, Sivapackiam's tenant Gerardine Andrew, a 36-year-old prostitute, told police that on the day of the murder, she returned to the flat and saw three people attacking her landlady and robbing her, and they threatened her to leave after briefly holding her hostage.
Life imprisonment is a legal penalty in Singapore. This sentence is applicable for more than forty offences under Singapore law, such as culpable homicide not amounting to murder, attempted murder, kidnapping by ransom, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, voluntarily causing grievous hurt with dangerous weapons, and trafficking of firearms, in addition to caning or a fine for certain offences that warrant life imprisonment.
On 12 March 2017, two men aged 28 and 34 were attacked by a group of three assailants outside a pub at St James Power Station. The two men, who were both cousins, were severely injured and rushed to hospital. But the older victim, Satheesh Kumar Manogaran, died as a result of several stab wounds to his head and back. On the other hand, the younger victim, who was Satheesh's cousin, survived his wounds.
On 22 September 2010, also the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2010, at a park in Woodlands, Singapore, 32-year-old Hoe Hong Lin, a Malaysian-born Singapore Permanent Resident, was attacked and fatally stabbed in the heart. The killer, 20-year-old Soh Wee Kian, a full-time National Serviceman who went AWOL at the time of the stabbing, was arrested by police while pending trial in a military court for desertion offenses, and charged with murder. It was also discovered that Soh had attacked three more women and stabbed them in a similar fashion as he did to Hoe, after stalking them. Soh, who was found to be suffering from an adjustment disorder with a depressed mood, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter for killing Hoe and another charge of stabbing one of his three surviving victims, and sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 August 2013.
On 10 October 2022, 19-year-old Sylesnar Seah Jie Kai stabbed his father, 47-year-old Eddie Seah Wee Teck to death on the common stairwell of their flat in Yishun, Singapore. Eddie Seah was said to be abusive to his wife and three children, of which Sylesnar Seah was the youngest. Initially charged with murder, Sylesnar Seah's charge was reduced to culpable homicide; he pleaded guilty to the reduced charge and was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on 30 September 2024.
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