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Murder of Cheng Geok Ha

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Cheng playing with his son's toys for a while, before he ambushed the girl, covered her mouth and pinned her down to rape her. Quek stated he used his hand to hold the struggling Cheng down by the neck as he proceeded to sexually assault the girl. It was only later when Quek noticed that Cheng had become motionless. Upon the ten-year-old girl's death, Quek used Lim's newly-bought gunny sack to contain Cheng's body and threw it down the rubbish chute. He even went downstairs to remove the gunny sack from the rubbish chute and hid it underneath the manhole. He also claimed at one point that his statements to the police were made involuntarily and that he was abused by his two interrogators - Inspector Leong Kong Hong and Sergeant Wee Chiang Chwee - who forced him to make the incriminating statements.
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read the verdict, stated that both judges agreed with the prosecution that based on the forensic evidence given by Chao, it could be inferred that Quek did not apply light pressure to the neck as he claimed or that he accidentally suffocated the victim. With reference to the prosecution's arguments, the judges were satisfied that Quek's actions came in line with the requirements of Section 300 of the
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the caller had addressed Cheng by her nickname "Mei Mei", which was the nickname that only Cheng's family and their closest acquaintances would use to address Cheng, and the phone calls were traced back to Quek's home telephone. At Quek's flat, the police also found a pawn ticket, which showed Quek pawning a pair of gold earrings for
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forced to make his statements were subsequently dismissed by the judges. The prosecution argued in rebuttal that it was inferentially clear that Quek had killed Cheng in order to cover up the rape and avoid leaving Cheng as a witness. As such, they sought a guilty verdict of murder from the High Court.
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Since the trial and execution of Quek Kee Siong, Cheng's family members, especially her parents, continued to struggle with their heartbreak over the loss of Cheng. According to Cheng's fourth sister Cheng Siok Ngee (钟淑圆 Zhōng Shūyuán; born in 1956), the death of her youngest sister took an emotional
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Lim Soon Heng (林顺兴 Lín Shùnxīng), a 13-year-old neighbour of Quek, came to court to testify that Quek asked him to buy a gunny sack for him to catch a stray cat. Quek stated that he wanted to use the cat's teeth to save someone's life, and he had hanged the cat to extract the teeth before bringing it
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Aside from the inconsistent accounts Quek made about the case, there was also evidence that Quek used the money he'd gotten from pawning Cheng's earrings to watch a movie despite his claims that he did not know why he pawned the earrings. The allegations that Quek was abused by his interrogators and
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The police questioned the neighbours of Cheng's family one by one. Later, the police arrested one of the neighbours, a 41-year-old labourer named Quek Kee Siong. Quek subsequently confessed to strangling Cheng on the night she went missing. Prior to the crime, Quek was a friend of Cheng's father for
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of Cheng's flat. Inside the gunny sack was Geok Ha's decomposing body and a rusty chopper. The police were contacted and they arrived at the scene, where a large crowd of nearby residents had gathered. Ten minutes after the police's arrival, Cheng's father identified his daughter's body based on the
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On 25 November 1977, after helping her father with an errand, ten-year-old Cheng went downstairs to return a bicycle she borrowed from her neighbour, Khayan Jasim. She played together with Khayan and Khayan's sister at the carpark below her flat before all three of them went to the nearby playground
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and wanted the daughter to wear white, and if she did so, Cheng would return home. However, Cheng's second sister was too afraid and did not go to the meeting as scheduled. Cheng's family later received several phone calls from other people, but most of them were just prank calls or nuisance calls.
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In their final verdict, the two judges rejected the defence's arguments that Quek accidentally killed Cheng, and they agreed that Quek had intentionally strangled Cheng to cause her death, or at least a fatal injury that could in the ordinary cause of nature lead to death. Justice Kulasekaram, who
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The prosecution began to present their case, in which they argued that Quek had intentionally strangled Cheng after sexually assaulting her. The prosecution's evidence also showed that Quek was the same mysterious caller who made the two phone calls to harass Cheng's family. In both conversations,
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Cheng Geok Ha, the youngest of twelve children in her family, was born in 1967 to her parents Cheng Hung Kay (or Cheng Ham Kay; 钟汉庚 Zhōng Hàngēng) and Sin Boon Tay (沈春茶 Shěn Chūnchá), who had seven sons and four daughters before Geok Ha's birth. Cheng, a ten-year-old Primary Three student at Opera
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In his defence, Quek claimed he killed Cheng by accident and he only intended to rape her. He stated that he asked Cheng to come to his flat after encountering the girl alone outdoors, telling her he wanted to show her something nice. Quek recounted that after Cheng entered his home, he observed
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Nearly two weeks later, on 7 December 1977, Cheng's dead body was found abandoned under a manhole, with her decomposing body stuffed inside a gunny sack. The cause of Cheng's death was strangulation, and the girl was found to be sexually assaulted prior to her death. The police soon arrested the
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In 1980, there were 27 police officers commended and awarded for their spectacular performance in cracking major cases (including a major armed robbery case). One of them, Sergeant Wee Chiang Chwee, who was one of the officers in charge of the investigation of Cheng's murder, was commended and
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8. These earrings were confirmed to be Cheng's, and the earrings were not found on her at the time her body was found. A pair of scissors was also seized from Quek's home and they were matched to the marks made on the earrings, which were retrieved by the police from the pawn shop. It was also
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under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which then dictated the death penalty as the mandatory sentence for murder in Singapore. Quek was reportedly emotionless as he heard the sentence and he stared at Cheng's parents for a moment while he was led away from the courtroom by police officers.
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In January 1978, the murder of Cheng Geok Ha was reported as one of the top ten most shocking events covered by the media in the year 1977. The case of Cheng's murder was also listed in 1987 as one of the most horrific murder cases involving the disposal of bodies using gunny sacks.
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Cheng's family, who spent the whole night searching for Cheng, reported her missing 24 hours after her disappearance. Five days later, Cheng's father contacted the newspapers to post a missing person poster, seeking the assistance of members of the public to look for Cheng.
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and eventually came to forgive Quek and not hate him anymore, since he was no longer alive. Part of her reason to forgive Quek was due to her sympathy towards Quek's three children, who endured a lot of hardships due to their late father's crime.
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toll on her mother Sin Boon Tay's health, and around 15 years after Cheng's death, Cheng's mother died. It was also revealed that after Cheng's death, Cheng's parents bore another child, who became their 13th and final child overall.
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home, supposedly to "save someone's life," as Quek told Lim. When he was presented with the gunny sack that Quek used to contain Cheng's body, Lim identified it as the same gunny sack that he bought for Quek.
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to continue playing. Afterwards, Cheng told the siblings that she was leaving for somewhere else and bid them good-bye. That was the last time Cheng was seen alive, as she failed to return home that night.
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at noon, but the man did not show up despite Cheng's mother showing up. The mysterious caller made another phone call, asking to meet the Chengs' second-eldest daughter at a theater in
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for the murder of Cheng Geok Ha. The prosecution was led by Fong Kwok Jen, while Quek was represented by defence lawyer Ching Chiak Yong. The case was heard by two judges,
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Estate School, was said to be a bright and independent child who did well academically. She was doted upon by her family members, who affectionately called her "Mei Mei".
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Soon after, Cheng's mother received a phone call from a man, who claimed that he had her daughter held captive, and he asked to meet up at a coffee shop in
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revealed in court that Quek tried to matchmake his younger brother with one of Cheng's father's daughters but his request was denied.
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credited for his dedication to investigate and solve the case, which allowed Quek to be prosecuted and hanged for his crime.
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for the murder of Cheng Geok Ha, as confirmed by a crime documentary. However, his execution date remains unspecified.
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Quek later filed an appeal to overturn the death sentence, but on 17 November 1980, Quek's appeal was rejected by the
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As such, 43-year-old Quek Kee Siong was found guilty of murder. Upon his conviction, Quek was
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On 7 December 1977, two weeks after Cheng Geok Ha went missing, a group of teenagers playing
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On 6 March 1979, after a seven-day trial, the judges, Justice T. Kulasekaram and Justice
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Quek Kee Siong, who was found guilty of murdering Cheng Geok Ha and sentenced to death
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The Cheng's disappearance and murder occurred less than a month after the death of
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After his arrest, on 8 December 1977, Quek was charged with murder at the
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For another rape-murder case that happened in Chai Chee in 2003, see
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Primary Three at Opera Estate School (incomplete due to her death)
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1977 case of missing girl found raped and murdered in Singapore
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On 27 February 1979, Quek Kee Siong first stood trial in the
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nearby discovered a gunny sack hidden below a manhole at the
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On the morning of 25 November 1977, ten-year-old schoolgirl
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After the loss of his appeal, Quek Kee Siong was hanged at
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Index

Chinese name
family name
Cheng
2003 Chai Chee rape and murder

Chai Chee
strangulation
Singaporean
Chinese
Chinese
pinyin
Chai Chee
Singapore
Serangoon Gardens
Geylang
sepak raga
void deck
Chao Tzee Cheng
vulva
Usharani Ganaison
Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy
sentenced to death
kampong
HDB
Chai Chee
Subordinate Courts
High Court
T. S. Sinnathuray
S$
Chao Tzee Cheng

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