pestered him about the rent, and suggested robbing Soh since he needed money. Lim decided to join despite declining the offer at first, and he also testified Tan wanted to rape Soh. However, during the execution of the robbery plot, Lim ran outside the flat while Tan was struggling with Soh inside the living room with the two children crying in fright nearby. Prosecution's rebuttals The prosecution in turn, argued that there was no doubt that the two defendants were culpable of the "brutal and wanton" killings of the Yeong children and Soh. Pereira, who made the prosecution's arguments, also highlighted that the men's accounts of how the killings occurred were inconsistent with medical evidence, which described the victim Soh having been stabbed while in a kneeling position rather than standing (like Tan claimed) or lying down (like Lim claimed), and that the children were being restrained at the same time of Soh's stabbing, which could be reasonable inference that more than one person had been responsible for killing the three victims, and not committed by one person. He also stated that both men had tried to fabricate stories to deflect blame from themselves, and hence their testimonies should be rejected, and Pereira therefore urged the court to convict both men of murder. The verdict was scheduled to be given on 10 April 1985. Verdict On 10 April 1985, after hearing the case for ten days, the trial judges - Justice Abdul Wahab Ghows and Justice L P Thean - delivered their verdict. In the 34-page verdict, Justice Abdul Wahab read out that the judges were in agreement that the two men shared a common intention to steal from the victims, and in furtherance of that intention, they had viciously and savagely stabbed the children and their mother. In the case of Michael Tan, Justice Abdul Wahab rejected Tan's defence that the first victim Soh Lee Lee accidentally ran into the knife that Lim held in his hand, and instead, the medical evidence and scratches on Tan's neck and chest led to the inference that Soh had been putting up a struggle in self defense while Tan had strangled Soh and intentionally plunged the knife into her neck and caused her to die from the wound. Tan's claims of diminished responsibility by influence of drugs, as well as his contention that he alone wanted to rob and Lim alone wanted