with her parents on an earlier phone call. Even at the eleventh hour before sentencing, Neville again refused to engage a lawyer to help him in his closing submissions for the upcoming verdict. Verdict On 22 November 1990, a little more than six years after Lim Hwee Huang was raped and murdered, Neville's trial, which lasted a total of six days, finally came to an end and he was scheduled to be sentenced the same day after the last stage of closing submissions. After a ten-minute adjournment of the trial session, Justice Lai Kew Chai, one of the two trial judges, read out the verdict in court, stating that there was sufficient evidence to prove that Neville had performed sexual intercourse with Lim against her will before he threw her out of his flat's kitchen window on purpose to ensure she fell to her death. He also admonished Neville for not only depriving a bright young woman like Lim of her virginity and dignity, but had also "wilfully and cruelly" deprived her of her right to live when he killed Lim. As such, both Justice Lai and JC Tan found 33-year-old Hensley Anthony Neville guilty of murder, and sentenced him to death by hanging. Under the law, offenders convicted of murder within the Singapore jurisdiction would receive the death sentence, which was the mandatory punishment for murder. According to Neville's sister (who was saddened at the verdict), she stated that she observed her brother had gave up the will to live as he did not accept the offer of a defence counsel up till the end, and the judges had to guide Neville along on how to cross examine witnesses and make his submissions to allow some fairness for him in terms of making his defence. Neville also thanked the court for imposing a death sentence upon him. In light of Neville's verdict of death, Lim's mother Tan Siok Kim stated that she was grateful to the police and court for having brought the "monster" (referring to Neville) who killed her daughter to justice, and she stated that she was also grateful to Nizammuddean, the Malay cleaner who witnessed her daughter's murder, for speaking up in court against Neville and hoped that he would not be tortured by nightmares anymore. Lim's mother said that Lim, who became an interior designer after completing secondary school, was always an obedient and filial