- Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, and two other judges Tan Ah Tah and A V Winslow - upheld that the two men clearly had the common intention to cause Chew's death in the course of armed robbery, and hence they dismissed the appeals of Lim and Neoh on 5 August 1974. On 9 April 1975, both Neoh and Lim applied for special leave to appeal to the Privy Council of London in a final bid to escape the gallows, but the Privy Council refused to approve their applications, which therefore finalize their death sentences. Executions On 27 June 1975, after losing their final death row plea, both 32-year-old Neoh Bean Chye and 28-year-old Lim Kim Huat were both hanged at Changi Prison. Both men's families, who received their death warrants one week before the executions, travelled from Penang to Singapore to collect their bodies. A Buddhist monk, who counselled both Neoh and Lim while they were still on death row, said prayers and authorized their funerals on their behalf after the double hanging of the gunmen. In the aftermath of the men's executions, the trial prosecutor Glenn Knight would become famous for his 1983 prosecution of Adrian Lim, Singapore's most infamous child killer who was hanged in 1988 for murdering two children for ritual sacrifice, and became director of the Commercial Affairs Department, but his reputation would be tarnished with his conviction for bribery in 1991. Knight, who was subsequently disqualified from law practice for sixteen years after his 1991 trial and imprisonment for corruption, later wrote his memoir, in which he recorded the case of Chew Liew Tea's shooting as one of his most memorable cases, and the book itself was published in 2012, the fifth year after his re-instatement and return to practice law (which the court approved). The case of Neoh Bean Chye and Lim Kim Huat was one of the early legal cases where it touched on the applicability and relevance of Section 34 of the Penal Code in convicting a person of murder in lieu of the common intention shared by more than one member of the group charged for such an offence, and it was cited by several judgements of cases where more than one person was charged and tried for murder by common intention, like the Bock Tuan Thong murder case and the Wan Cheon Kem robbery-murder case. See also Capital punishment