influence of drugs when he made the statements, which he only made for the sake of getting drugs. Although the police officers denied it and stated Tan made the statements voluntarily, the trial judges ruled that Tan's statements were inadmissible as evidence, since narcotics officers corroborated his story that he found heroin on him at the time of his arrest and Tan had some withdrawal symptoms before making the statements, which made them doubt that he gave his statements voluntarily and in a full conscious state. Also, due to Tan's allegations that a prison officer supplied him the drugs, a 29-year-old prison warden, who was a Malaysian on a work permit, was found to have supplied heroin to Tan and other inmates, but due to insufficient evidence to formulate a charge against him, the ex-warden was indefinitely detained without trial. After which, Tan claimed that it was Lim who killed the children and their mother. He testified that on the day of the murder, his only intention was to rob the family while Lim wanted to rape Soh. Tan claimed that after ransacking the flat and packing up the valuables he stole from the flat, he heard screams coming from the room, and he saw the children lying motionless with blood on their chest and backs. He also saw the children's mother struggling with Lim, who was armed with the knife. According to Tan, he went there to break up the fight between Lim and Soh and during the scuffle, he witnessed Soh running towards Lim, but she got stabbed into the neck, as a result of her accidentally running into the knife Lim held in his hands. By his admission, Tan claimed he spent more than $2,000 on heroin and even traffic drugs to maintain a stable income, and he thought he could become a millionaire should he never consumed drugs. Tan steadily denied the prosecution's contentions that he had intentionally killed Soh and the children despite their pleas for mercy and fabricated his account. Lim's defence Lim also elected to give his defence. He denied that he stabbed the victims, and claimed that Tan was responsible for the killings. He stated that he was a regular visitor to Tan's rented room, often going there to buy drugs and smoke heroin. He recalled that on the day they killed the children and Soh, Tan expressed his unhappiness that Soh