trial prosecutor of the case (with Jennifer Marie assisting him), and the two trial judges presiding the trial were L P Thean and Abdul Wahab Ghows. Sim pleaded not guilty to the charges of intentional murder at the start of his trial. At the start of Sim's trial however, Sim's lawyer argued that the prosecution should not proceed with the original charges of murder against his client on the account that the key prosecution witness Beh Meng Chai had been convicted of manslaughter after the amendment of his original murder charges before trial, and that the trial judge had found Beh and the other accomplices in question had the common intention of committing the offences Beh was convicted of. However, the prosecution argued that the trial judge Lai Kew Chai had emphasized that the offence which was committed in furtherance of the trio's common intention was murder and although Beh was in the end convicted of manslaughter, his actions was also part of the offence of murder committed by one or more of them three robbers in question and there was no finding by the prosecution or judge that all the three men had committed manslaughter by common intention. The judges therefore overruled the defence's arguments and allowed the prosecution to proceed with the original murder charges against Sim for killing both Lee and Teo. Also, Sim raised several allegations that his statements to the police were not made voluntarily, and later, these allegations were also dismissed by the judges, who both admitted the statements as evidence. Beh's account Beh came to court to testify against Sim, and his account of what happened was similar to the confession he made to the police and admitted statement of facts at his own trial. He testified that on the day of the murders, he and Sim and the missing third accomplice Chng Meng Joo had entered the fishing port office of the first victim Lee Cheng Tiong to rob him, and both Sim and Chng were inside the room with Lee while Beh himself stayed outside as a lookout. As the door was partially open, Beh witnessed Lee being stabbed multiple times by both Chng and Sim while he put up a struggle for his life. It happened so that at the moment Lee was killed, the second victim Teo Keng Siang arrived at the office with a hundred bucks in Malaysian