heinous act for cash, and expressed her regret for not preventing him to step on the wrong path. It was further revealed that Tan was a former celebrity who first made his name in 1970 as "Mr Personality", and had once starred in a sentimental Indonesian film. After Lim and Tan were both sentenced to death, they became one of the sixteen inmates on Singapore's death row awaiting execution as of April 1985. These inmates included infamous child killer Adrian Lim who faced the gallows for killing two children, and lorry driver Ramu Annadavascan who murdered a boilerman Kalingam Mariappan by hitting him with a rake and burning him alive with petrol and fire. Fates of Lim and Tan Appeal processes On 18 May 1987, both Lim Beng Hai and Michael Tan lost their appeals to the Court of Appeal against the death sentences they received for killing Soh and her children. Without calling for the prosecution's submissions, the three judges - Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, Justice F A Chua and Justice Lai Kew Chai - rejected the men's claims of diminished responsibility since both men were not under the influence of drugs and both were fully aware of their wrongdoings and able to differentiate right and wrong. The men later applied for special leave to appeal to the Privy Council at London in a bid to overturn their sentences, but in 1989, the men's applications were all rejected and thrown out by the Privy Council. Tan's death On 8 May 1990, while he was in solitary confinement at death row pending execution, 37-year-old Michael Tan Teow was found dead inside his one-man cell at Changi Prison by a warden. Despite efforts by prison officers to revive him, Tan was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. At the time of his death, Tan was survived by his wife, two daughters (aged 18 and 14 respectively at this point), his elderly mother and Jewish stepfather. According to Tan's 58-year-old mother, she felt regret for her son going astray due to lack of parental love, and stated she never knew about her son's crime until she read the paper. She revealed that her first husband abandoned her when Tan, who was her only child, was merely one month old, and thus she entrusted her child to his grandparents while she went on to marry a Jewish man and got into