On 2 November 1984, 19-year-old interior designer Lim Hwee Huang () was thrown off a tenth storey HDB flat at Kallang Bahru, after she was raped by 27-year-old Eurasian Singaporean Hensley Anthony Neville, who fled to the neighbouring country Malaysia. He was on the run for more than two years before he was finally arrested by Malaysian police, who sent him back to Singapore in March 1987 for the charge of murdering Lim. Neville, who was caught in the Malaysian state of Selangor, was also a suspect behind two unsolved killings in Malaysia. Despite facing a capital murder charge and the death penalty, Neville refused to be assigned a lawyer in his case and elected to represent himself in court. He became the first person to stand trial for murder without a lawyer in Singapore. Six years after he first committed the crime, Neville was found guilty of the murder of Lim Hwee Huang, and he was sentenced to death by the High Court on 22 November 1990. Death of Lim Hwee Huang On 2 November 1984, the police received a report that a young woman had fell to her death from one of the flats at Kallang Bahru. She was wearing only her underwear and a shirt at the time she died. The victim was identified as 19-year-old interior designer Lim Hwee Huang. Lim's death was initially classified by the police to be suicide. However, the forensic pathologist Chao Tzee Cheng, who performed an autopsy on the deceased, found bruises around her neck and injuries at the sexual organs of Lim, which proven that Lim did not commit suicide, and that she had been killed by a possible rapist by strangulation. The police thus re-classified the case as murder. They also found Lim's trousers, which she last wore before she was killed by her alleged rapist. According to Lim's family (who resided at Hougang), they were saddened and shocked to hear about Lim's death, and they noted that Lim often would always be punctual when she go to work at Balestier (where her interior design company was located) and also would reach home on time, and they noticed something was wrong when she never came back or at least called as usual to inform them she was staying out (which she often would do whenever she stayed outside of home). At the time of her death, Lim, who was