On 16 April 1994, 80-year-old Loo Kwee Hwa (), who was heading to a friend's Bedok North flat to go play cards with her acquaintances, was found murdered at a flight of stairs between the 15th and 16th floor of the same HDB block, and bloodstains containing her DNA were also found inside the lift she last entered. The gold jewellery which Loo was last seen wearing had also been stolen by her attacker. Through police investigations, a 22-year-old unemployed man and drug addict named Indra Wijaya Ibrahim was arrested. Despite the fact that he argued he was intoxicated by alcohol and the effects of overdosing on anti-anxiety pills, Indra was found to be mentally sound at the time of killing Loo, and hence he was found guilty and sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of Loo, and he was later hanged on 29 September 1995. Murder investigation On 16 April 1994, a resident of a HDB block at Bedok North was shocked to see an old woman lying dead in a pool of blood on a flight of stairs between the 15th and 16th floor. The woman was slit on the throat, with a 7 cm long knife wound around her neck, and the lift she last entered was also stained with blood, and some shoeprints stained in blood were also discovered at the crime scene. A brown umbrealla believed to be the victim's was also found near to where her body was discovered. The handle of a paper cutter was also discovered at the scene of crime. The shocking sight drew many residents and onlookers, who all expressed their shock and rage at the fact that there was a lift robber who targeted a helpless old woman before killing her. Onlookers also told the police and reporters that the old woman was not a resident of their block. The victim was 80-year-old Loo Kwee Hwa, who lived somewhere nearby in the neighbourhood of Bedok North, and she was described by her grandson as a healthy and loving grandmother who often go to meet with her elderly friends to play card games; however, Loo's bereaved family was too distraught to continue disclosing anything else to the press. On that day itself, Loo was supposed to visit a friend who lived at that particular block to play a card game when she was unexpectedly found murdered at that