wound to the neck, and from the blood splatters, he was not standing when he was killed. This testimony and autopsy result contradicted the account of the two men who gave entirely different accounts of how the victims were killed and became the factor that led to the guilty verdict of death by the High Court. Public Prosecutor v Teo Boon Ann On 31 October 1983, 23-year-old temple medium Teo Boon Ann had brutally murdered 66-year-old Chong Kin Meng in her home while planning to commit robbery. Police investigations led to Teo's arrest some time after the murder (with the help of the fingerprints from a wedding card found at the scene of the crime), and he was then charged with murder. At the trial, Teo denied the murder allegation, stating he was only intending to rob Mdm Chong, and when his plot was discovered, Chong, who turned aggressive and tried to attack him upon the discovery of his attempted robbery; Teo also claimed, at that point, he had to act in self-defence and unintentionally caused Chong's death while engaging in a sudden fight with the elderly woman. However, the abundance of incriminating evidence, especially the autopsy results of Professor Chao Tzee Cheng and the diary entry of Teo's girlfriend, detailing him fruitlessly trying to convince his girlfriend to help him in the robbery and to murder the elderly woman if their plot was discovered, had led to Teo's defence of a sudden fight failing to raise a reasonable doubt over the prosecution's case. As such, Teo was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on 4 February 1987. Teo lost his appeal against his sentence on 16 August 1988 and he was eventually hanged on 30 April 1990. In his testimony, Professor Chao stated that from the injuries he found on the elderly victim Chong Kin Meng, the harm caused by Teo was excessive for self-defence since the age of the victim and her physique would not have made Teo felt threatened on his life and having to cause grievous hurt on the victim if she really attacked him. The lack of defensive wounds on Lim also further disputed the defence of sudden fight. Furthermore, the older woman was hit several times with great force on her head and there were injuries on her fingers resulting from her trying to ward off the blows, and there were signs