On 6 June 1994, two Japanese tourists were robbed and attacked by two men in their shared room in the Oriental Hotel in Singapore. One of them was brutally assaulted and died, while the other survived. The case, known as the Oriental Hotel murder, was classified as murder by the police. The perpetrators were eventually caught 2 years later and they were subsequently sentenced to serve lengthy jail terms with caning for their part in the robbery and assault of the two tourists, as well as for unrelated offences committed before their arrests. Murder On 6 June 1994, two men - 25-year-old Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah and 32-year-old Abdul Rahman bin Arshad (alias Azman) - barged into the room shared by two Japanese tourists - , 49 and , 56. Earlier on that day itself, the two men, who were acquaintances, went to the Oriental Hotel for a job interview when they both spotted the Japanese tour group which both Fujii and Takishita were with. Seeing this, the two men, who were short of money, decided to rob the Japanese tourists, who were workers and cleaners going on a holiday trip sponsored by their company. The two men then followed the tour group who went to check in their own rooms and later targeted both Fujii and Takishita after they were the only ones left in the corridor. Once the women opened their hotel room doors, both men emerged from behind and began to rob and assault the two women; Takishita was assaulted by Abdul Rahman and she pretended to faint to escape further injury. When Abdul Nasir attempted to escape after severely assaulting and robbing Fujii, he lost his balance and accidentally stepped onto Fujii's face as he held onto the wall to try to steady himself (which left behind a bloodstained palm print), causing a facial fracture which obstructed her breathing and caused her death. The men managed to get a Seiko watch worth 70,000 yen (then S$1,000), a camera, a Japanese passport and 65,000 yen in cash (then S$950). They later converted the Japanese yen and divided the loot between themselves. Police were contacted and the case was assigned to prominent detective Richard Lim Beng Gee. The police also managed to extract fingerprints from the bloodstained palm print left behind by Abdul Nasir on the wall, but they could not trace any matching fingerprints from their