revealed that both Chng and Sim were hiding in Malaysia. With the crucial information they received, the Singapore Police Force sought help from the Malaysian authorities, and on 14 July 1983, the Royal Malaysia Police arrested one of the two fugitives, 20-year-old fisherman Sim Min Teck, at his hometown in Kuantan, Pahang. Sim was extradited back to Singapore on 23 July 1983, and he was charged with murder the same day he arrived back to Singapore. Trial of Beh Meng Chai Reduction of murder charges and plea of guilt On 8 October 1984, Beh first stood trial for killing the two victims at the Jurong fishing port. By then, after some representations from the defence, the prosecution decided to, out of strategic reasons, reduce the double murder charges to lower charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which also meant manslaughter in Singapore legal terms. It was done on account that Beh fully cooperated with the police, and that he was willing to act as the prosecution's witness against Sim Min Teck in his upcoming trial for the two charges of murder. Beh pleaded guilty to two charges of manslaughter, and another two charges of armed robbery for stealing the money from both Lee and Teo after their deaths. The prosecution, led by Glenn Knight (who formerly prosecuted infamous child killer Adrian Lim for murder), submitted that the maximum sentence of life imprisonment should be imposed for the most severe charge of manslaughter in Beh's case, and he also sought the maximum terms for the other two charges of armed robbery. Knight submitted that other than Beh's considerably smaller role in the killings and his willingness to testify against Sim, there were no other mitigating factors in the case, given that the killings were committed in an unusually brutal manner and cruelly executed in the course of robbery, and thus on account of his responsibility for the killings committed by the trio, Beh deserved the maximum punishments the law could impose in accordance to the offences he was convicted for. Sentencing of Beh On the same day Beh was convicted, the trial judge Lai Kew Chai delivered his verdict regarding Beh’s sentence. He stated in the judgement that while he accepted the defence lawyer M Puvanendram's mitigation plea that Beh did not stab the victims, his mere age of twenty at the time of the crime, his full cooperation