Explore 22 documented criminal cases from Singapore through court records and established reporting. Convictions are separated from allegations, unresolved responsibility stays unresolved, and victim context comes before spectacle.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when the available record supports a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open proceedings, acquittals that leave the crime unresolved or materially incomplete outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial. Arrest or suspicion alone is never treated as resolution.
Tay Rui Hao was killed while jogging in Punggol in 2020 by a stranger he had never met. Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi pleaded guilty to murder and received life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane.
Open case file →Tan Eng Yan was killed in her Tampines flat in 1998. Lau Lee Peng was convicted of murder, and Singapore’s Court of Appeal dismissed his provocation-based appeal in 2000.
Open case file →Robert Tay, Annie Tay and Jovita Virador were murdered during an armed home robbery in 1983. Sek Kim Wah was convicted of the murders; accomplice Nyu Kok Meng was convicted separately of armed robbery.
Open case file →South African tourist Gerard George Lowe was murdered in a Singapore hotel in 1995. John Martin Scripps was convicted, abandoned his appeal and was executed in 1996.
Open case file →A connected 2010 robbery spree killed construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai and injured three other men. Micheal Anak Garing and Tony Anak Imba were convicted of murder.
Open case file →Four-year-old Nursabrina Agustiani Abdullah died in 2018. The Court of Appeal reversed her stepfather's murder acquittal in 2024 and convicted him of murder.
Open case file →Nine-month-old Izz Fayyaz Zayani bin Ahmad died after an assault in a Yishun car park in 2019. Mohamed Aliff bin Mohamed Yusoff was convicted of murder and lost his appeal.
Open case file →Dexmon Chua Yizhi was abducted and killed in 2013. Chia Kee Chen was convicted of murder, and the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in 2018.
Open case file →Lim Hock Soon was fatally shot in Serangoon in 2006. Tan Chor Jin was convicted under the Arms Offences Act after the original murder charge was amended.
Open case file →Tham Weng Kuen was murdered in Boon Lay in 2005. Muhammad bin Kadar remained convicted, while the Court of Appeal acquitted his brother Ismil.
Open case file →Zhang Meng, Feng Jianyu and Yang Jie were killed in Yishun in 2008, while Li Meilin survived. Wang Zhijian was ultimately convicted of all three murders.
Open case file →Choong Pei Shan and her four-year-old daughter Teo Zi Ning were murdered in their Woodlands flat in 2017. Teo Ghim Heng was convicted of both murders, and the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal in 2022.
Open case file →Tan Boon Sin and his son Tan Chee Heong were murdered in 2013. Former police officer Iskandar bin Rahmat was convicted on two counts of murder, and his appeal was dismissed in 2017.
Open case file →Liu Hong Mei was killed in Singapore in 2005. Leong Siew Chor was convicted of murder, and the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal in 2006.
Open case file →Ayako Watanabe was murdered in her Singapore home in 1970. Mimi Wong and Sim Woh Kum were convicted, and their appeal was dismissed in 1972.
Open case file →Ngo Cheng Poh, Leong Chin Woo and Ang Boon Chai were murdered during a planned 1971 gold robbery. Nine defendants were convicted, and their appeals were dismissed.
Open case file →Jenny Cheok disappeared during a 1963 diving trip near the Sisters' Islands. Sunny Ang was convicted of her murder on circumstantial evidence, and his appeal was dismissed in 1965.
Open case file →Cao Ruyin died after a 2008 robbery attack in Geylang. Kho Jabing was convicted of murder; his conviction survived appeal and later sentencing litigation ended with a death sentence.
Open case file →Nur Asyura, known as Nonoi, was killed in 2006. Her stepfather Mohammed Ali bin Johari was convicted of murder, and Singapore's Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal in 2008.
Open case file →Annie Leong was murdered in Hougang in 2001 after her estranged husband Anthony Ler recruited a 15-year-old to kill her. Both were convicted; Ler's appeal failed in 2002.
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Agnes Ng and Ghazali Marzuki were murdered in Toa Payoh in 1981. Adrian Lim, Tan Mui Choo and Hoe Kah Hong were convicted of both killings; Tan and Hoe later lost their appeals.
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Eight-year-old Huang Na disappeared from the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre in 2004. Took Leng How was convicted of her murder in 2005, and Singapore's Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction in 2006 by majority decision.
Open case file →Court judgments, police or government records and other primary documents are preferred. Established reporting is used to corroborate chronology and later procedural developments.
Acquittals, reduced charges and unresolved responsibility are stated plainly. Crime by Region does not turn suspicion into guilt or add graphic detail simply for shock value.