to his home to seek shelter and asked him to store a radio cassette recorder and video recorder. When Udayakumar asked him what happened, Tan admitted he robbed his landlady Soh and her two children, but they died because, according to Tan, it was Lim who killed all three of them. Another doctor, Dr Naranjan Singh, testified that he heard Tan admitting he was part of the robbery, but he stated he only wanted to rape Soh but his friend Lim had killed the victims and even stole from them. He also observed both Lim and Tan suffering from moderate to severe drug withdrawal symptoms. Professor Chao Tzee Cheng, the senior forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy on the victims, told the court that the victims had been stabbed during the alleged robbery. He demonstrated through a female officer's help on how the victims were killed. He firstly showed the court how the adult victim Soh was killed. He told the court that based on the blood splatters on the wall and height of the stains from above the ground, and the feet of Soh being below the bed, it was likely that Soh was in a kneeling position when she was stabbed inside the bedroom, and the scratch marks on her neck showed that her assailant was using one hand to grip onto her neck to strangle her during the stabbing. Professor Chao also said that by sequential order, either Tan or Lim or both killed Soh first before they laid their hands on the children, because he noticed that the bodies of both Jeremy Yeong and his sister Joyce fell onto and above the body of their mother. Professor Chao said the bruises on Jeremy's face was likely due to someone clasping the boy's mouth with the hand, which gave rise to the possibility that there was more than one assailant at the scene and that one of them killed Soh while another restrained the children, before they killed the two children as well. Tan's defence Tan elected to go to the stand to give his defence. However, he suffered from severe drug withdrawal symptoms right before the start of his defence phase, hence the trial was postponed for a month before Tan fully recovered. On the stand, Tan challenged the validity of his statements, claiming he did not make them voluntarily, claiming that he was under the