murder. The judges also emphasized that the prosecution only reduced the charges against Beh in a moment of "prerogative mercy" due to the uncertainty of whether he partaken in the stabbing of the victims and the extenuating circumstances of his case compared to Sim's. One of the judges, Justice Rajah, commented that it seemed that Sim was feeling aggrieved at the fact that he was convicted of murder, unlike Beh who faced manslaughter charges. The three judges also pointed out that the prosecution had the right to decide on which charge to proceed against the defendant, and the charges cannot speak for themselves on whether the defendant should be guilty of murder in light of the evidence available, since a person may not be charged with murder even in a case that was genuinely constituted as murder. As such, on 7 July 1986, the Court of Appeal ruled that the appeal of Sim should be dismissed, since there was no breach of his rights. After the loss of his appeal, Sim was eventually hanged at Changi Prison. Legal effect of Sim's case Even during the later years after the occurrence of the Jurong fishing port murders and Sim Min Teck's execution, the case of Sim's appeal was referred to from time to time in several other capital cases, where defendants were convicted of different charges in the same cases. For instance, in his 2011 lawsuit against the Attorney-General of Singapore, Ramalingam Ravinthran, a convicted drug trafficker sentenced to death for two charges of trafficking about 7kg of cannabis, appealed that there was a violation to his right to equality and equal protection under the law, given that both he and his accomplice Sundar Arujunan initially faced capital charges, but only Ramalingam himself was sentenced to death while Sundar was convicted of lower charges in the same case and received a twenty-year sentence with 24 strokes of the cane. In referencing to the case of both Sim and Beh Meng Chai, the courts dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the prosecution had the discretion to proceed with different charges based on the evidence and role of the defendants in the joint offence charged. In another case, Malaysian drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong, who was nineteen when he was sentenced to death for the offence of importing 47g of heroin, filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General on the grounds that