ringgit, which he was supposed to pass to Lee on his boss's behalf. Although Beh asked his two accomplices to spare Teo's life, Sim mercilessly murdered the 16-year-old boy after he pulled him inside the room without hesitation. Beh also said that after killing Teo and Lee, all three of them proceeded to search in the room for Lee's money, and they took about S$1,000 in total, and even stole Lee's pendant and gold chain. Beh added that they also took away Teo's Malaysian currency cash, and later, they sold Lee's chain and pendant for S$3,500, which were divided between themselves. Beh said that afterwards, all three of them ran off to Malaysia, staying in different places at Johor, Kuala Lumpur and Melaka. Beh also added he only returned to Singapore in April 1982 as he thought the police did not know of his involvement in the killings, which was proven wrong when he was arrested in the same month of his return to Singapore. Sim's defence Sim elected to give his defence. He stated that he never intended to kill the victims but only wanted to rob. He first touched on about the death of Lee, stating that after the trio entered Lee's office, Chng was the first to attack Lee, and they got embroiled into a fight. Sim said he saw Lee being stabbed many times by Chng, before he went in between the two men to break up the fight, but Lee, who disarmed Chng by then, charged at Sim with the knife despite being badly wounded, and so Sim himself stabbed Lee once in the abdomen in self-defense. Sim also recounted that they encountered Teo, who just arrived and witnessed the murder of Lee. He stated that Teo blackmailed the trio and threatened to call the police to report the matter. Sim stated that out of panic, he stabbed Teo once in the stomach, but the rest of the stab wounds on Teo's body were caused by Chng and Beh, who all did so despite Sim's suggestion to spare the injured boy and tied him up here. Under the prosecution's cross-examination, Sim denied killing Lee when the victim tried to defend himself, and he denied that he killed Teo to silence him. Closing submissions The defence counsel of Sim made their closing submissions, arguing that Sim should be convicted of the same charges of manslaughter as