to rape Soh were all rejected by the judges,since the evidence demonstrated the defendants sharing the common intention to steal from the victims and humiliate Soh. Turning to the case of Lim Beng Hai, Justice Abdul Wahab stated that it was unbelievable that Lim, who was present at the scene of crime throughout the killings, did not partake in the homicides, as the evidence showed that not only did he participate in Tan's plan to commit theft, Lim had also restrained the children while Soh was stabbed by Tan, and even assaulted the boy Jeremy to keep him silent, and he was deemed to have abetted Tan in facilitating the stabbing of Soh. Justice Abdul Wahab stated it was immaterial to judge whoever was the one who directly killed the children, as the children were clearly stabbed with the intention to not leave them alive as witnesses to identify both killers, hence Lim should bear the full responsibility for being an accessory to the murder of the children as well. The diminished responsibility defence raised by Lim was also not accepted. As such, both 32-year-old Michael Tan and 28-year-old Lim Beng Hai were found guilty of three counts of murder and sentenced to death. Justice L P Thean pronounced the triple death sentences (one for each count of murder) for both men in a packed courtroom, where everyone was ordered to stand. Tan's wife wept at the verdict while Yeong Fook Seng expressed his relief at the end of the ordeal, but he remained sad for losing his wife and children, whom he described as his "everything". After her husband was sentenced to death, Tan's 31-year-old wife, who was Malaysian-born and a native of Negeri Sembilan, told the press that after her mother died at age five and her father, an opium addict, sold her off to Singapore for $500 to buy drugs, she lived at a temple in Singapore until 1973, the year she first met Tan from a coffee shop at Changi and they became married six months later. Tan's wife stated that despite their lack of money, Tan was always good to her and their two daughters (the younger lived with the mother while the elder was sent to a welfare home), and would do anything to bring income and happiness to the family. Tan's wife confessed she never knew that her husband would commit such a