On 28 March 1983, 28-year-old housewife Soh Lee Lee (苏莉莉 Sū Lìlì) and her two young children, three-year-old Jeremy Yeong Yin Kit (杨英杰 Yáng Yīngjíe) and two-year-old Joyce Yeong Pei Ling (杨佩玲 Yáng Peìlíng) were brutally murdered inside their flat at Ang Mo Kio, and some of their possessions were also stolen from the flat. The police investigated the case and within a month, they managed to arrest two suspects, Lim Beng Hai (林明海 Lín Mínghăi or 林炳海 Lín Bĭnghǎi) and Michael Tan Teow (陈朝 Chén Cháo), for the killings. One of them, Tan, was Soh's tenant. During the trial, both men, who were drug addicts and had committed the murders due to the desperate need for money to procure more drugs, blamed each other for the killings and put up defences that there was no intention to kill but to rob and additionally, to rape the adult victim Soh. However, the judges deemed that both men were responsible for the murders, and thus they were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in April 1985. Five years after the trial, Tan committed suicide while on death row while Lim alone was hung at the gallows for the murders. Murders and police investigation On the evening of 28 March 1983, 33-year-old Yeong Fook Seng, a school laboratory worker, reached home from work when he witnessed the dead bodies of his 28-year-old wife Soh Lee Lee and their two children - three-year-old Jeremy Yeong Yin Kit and two-year-old Joyce Yeong Pei Ling - inside their bedroom. Yeong reported the triple deaths to the police. According to the forensic pathologist Chao Tzee Cheng, Soh died from a stab wound to the neck, while for the children, Jeremy was stabbed once on the neck and bled to death, while Joyce was stabbed eight to nine times on her body. The police classified the case as murder, and it was believed that there was at least one assailant responsible. They investigated and found that a radio cassette recorder, a video recorder, and some of Soh's jewellery were missing, and so they theorized that the possible motive was robbery. After Yeong told police that he rented a room to a man named Ng Gee Soon, who was missing at the time the mother and children were killed, the police brought Ng in for questioning as a suspect, but Ng stated he was not the