boy to help her before she died on the spot. A passer-by told Nizammuddean to not be a busybody and brought him away from the scene, and Nizammuddean's mother also told him to not get involved after she learned of the murder he witnessed. Nizammuddean told the court that for the next six years, he had been haunted by nightmares of the girl and her dying words, which later disappeared after his consultations of a bomoh, but they came back again during the few months before Neville's trial, and he finally decided to, out of conscience and remorse, tell the truth to the police, which allowed him to be summoned to court as a new witness. Nizammuddean also stated he hoped Lim would rest in peace after he testified against Neville in court. Autopsy report Professor Chao Tzee Cheng, the forensic pathologist who conducted a post-mortem examination of the victim, testified that Lim had been violently raped before her death rather than having consensual sex with Neville as he claimed, as there were severe bruises on Lim's hymen and vagina, and he also found no traces of love bites on Lim's neck. Professor Chao added that Lim's fall from the tenth storey had resulted in her heart and lungs being ruptured due to the fall's force impact, leading to her death. He also opined that base on Lim's small body size and weight of 43 kg, as well as the height from where she was thrown off as witnessed by Nizammuddean, the effects of the fall from such a height was sufficiently fatal to cause her to die upon impact. Neville's defence Although the prosecution argued that Neville had raped and suffocated Lim before throwing her off his kitchen window and packing his belongings to flee to Malaysia, Neville denied that he threw Lim to death or raped her. When he elected to go to the stand to give his defence, Neville stated that on the night of 1 November 1984, after Lim came to his flat, he had sex with her before he proceeded to read a book during the early hours of 2 November, and while he was not looking, Lim had apparently fell out of her kitchen window and died from the fall, and his overall defence was that Lim had either fell accidentally or committed suicide due to her sadness over an earlier argument she had