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also stated that Seah did not commit murder while under sudden and grave provocation, since by the time of his arrival, the molestation had stopped and while Seah may be reasonably enraged, he would have had simmered down at that point and Seah did not prove that the anger he felt at Salim's actions had made him sufficiently lose his self-control and drive him to kill Salim. Furthermore, Seah had attacked Salim without warning and Salim did not start the fight or even fight back in return, and Seah's court testimony of Salim about to fight him were inconsistent with the statements he gave to the police, and hence he rejected Seah's court defence and ruled that his statements were the true version of events and not recorded incorrectly as Seah claimed. Having determined that Seah intentionally inflicted head injuries onto Salim, such that the injuries were sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, Justice Kan concluded that there were sufficient grounds to return with a guilty verdict of murder.
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molested and stalked by a Malay man (referring to Salim). Chan followed Seah into a taxi to the coffeeshop and he heard Seah expressing that he wanted to wallop the molester up. Chan also saw Seah going into a back lane after they alighted the taxi nearby the shop, and he saw Seah returning with a wooden pole about 2 feet long with a cross-section of two inches square. Chan also said he saw Seah asked Bok where the molester was, and when Bok pointed at Salim, he saw Seah violently bring the pole down onto Salim twice. Even after Salim had fallen to the ground, Seah persisted in the assault by bludgeoning at Salim two more times before he left the scene. Chan revealed that throughout the onslaught, Salim never once spoke or retaliated. It was also revealed in court that Chan was arrested in
November 1999 at the Woodlands Checkpoint for his connection to the crime but ultimately, he was let off after no further action was taken against him.
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before Seah and Chan left the hawker centre, leaving Bok alone at the hawker centre. Bok, who was then in prison for drug-related offences, was summoned as a witness, and she testified that on the night before the incident, after she argued with her boyfriend and was left alone, she decided to head to a coffeeshop at the junction of Sims Avenue and Lorong 5, where Seah was a regular patron. On the way, Bok encountered the victim Salim, who followed her and even molested her on her breasts and shoulder. Although Bok warned Salim not to do so, Salim persisted and followed her to the coffeeshop. Bok did not find her boyfriend at the area, but Salim continued to harass her. Bok sat down at a vacant table inside the shop and tried calling her boyfriend, and Salim asked her repeatedly to go home with him.
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Seah, and without warning, Seah raised the wooden pole and violently hit Salim several times, before and after Salim collapsed, which contradicted his account in court. Seah replied during the prosecution's questioning that Salim's attempt to fight might have not been recorded by the police investigators, although this was not put to
Inspector Ang or the interpreter. Also, Seah denied telling Chan that he wanted to wallop Salim or grabbed the pole before entering the shop to confront Salim. When Seah was asked by the prosecution why he did not simply chose to leave when Salim stared at him and frightened him, Seah only replied that he did not do so since Bok was not going to leave and was on her phone, and Salim himself also did not leave.
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and molested by Salim, and she told him of her location. About ten to 15 minutes after the phone call, Seah arrived at the shop, and he probed her on where and who was the man that harassed her, and Bok pointed at Salim. According to Bok, she saw Seah wielding an object resembling a pole and smacked it at Salim twice, causing Salim to collapse. Even after Salim was downed by Seah at that point, Bok testified she saw Seah inflicting another two blows at Salim before he stopped. Afterwards, Seah grabbed Bok, and they left the coffeeshop together. Based on the other evidence adduced by the prosecution, Seah left for
Malaysia a day after the killing, and he remained on the run for one year before he was caught in May 2000.
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Bok's phone call about her being harassed by Salim, and after reaching the coffeeshop, he met up with his girlfriend and he confronted Salim, who angrily spewed some Malay words at Seah, who did not understand what he said. Seah said afterwards, everything fell silent and both he and Salim stared at each other. Feeling frightened, Seah thus headed to the back lane behind the coffeeshop and he picked up a wooden plank, and he wanted to use it for self-defense in case he and Salim might have a fight.
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involved in the murder, the investigations ultimately concluded that a sole attacker was responsible for murdering Salim. Soon after, the police received an informant's tip-off about the suspected murderer. Based on information provided, the police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Seah Kok Meng (alias Ah Meng), a
Singaporean and labourer. However, Seah was no longer in Singapore by the time the police established his identity, and efforts were made to trace his whereabouts and arrest.
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for a distance of around 500m, the attackers, described to be
Chinese people aged in their 30s who sported fair complexions, had caught up with Salim nearby a public pay phone outside the coffeeshop, and they had beaten Salim up. After the assault itself, the three perpetrators fled the coffeeshop and two of the assailants ran towards Lorong 3 Geylang, while the third and final suspect headed towards Lorong 7 Geylang.
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chest, right forearm, right thigh and right ankle. He concluded that these injuries were caused by blunt force trauma as inflicted by a stick with a square or rectangular cross-section, and a moderately severe amount of force was used by the killer(s) during the course of the assault. After the completion of the autopsy, Salim's body was not immediately recovered by his family for burial.
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Unable to take the harassment, Bok decided to seek help. She first used the telephone at the coffeeshop to call the flat she shared with Seah, but no one answered the call. Subsequently, Bok used her mobile phone to call Seah, who took the call. Bok then told her boyfriend that she had been harassed
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The victim was 56-year-old S. Salim Ahmad, a rag-and-bone man who was allegedly bashed up by about three people. According to witnesses, Salim was seen running towards the coffeeshop and he was pursued by about three men, and two of them were allegedly armed with wooden sticks. After pursuing Salim
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Chan, who was at the coffeeshop at the time of the murder, also came to testify as a witness. Chan told the court that he and Seah went wandering from Lorong 2 to Lorong 12 after the quarrel between Bok and Seah, and both men received the phone call from a distressed Bok, who informed them she was
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re-enacted the murder of Salim (as well as an unrelated sexual assault case) and it aired on television. The police also sent a public arrest notice on the television programme, appealing for information to seek the whereabouts of Seah, as well as revealing his personal particulars in an effort to
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An autopsy was conducted by forensic pathologist Dr Paul Chui, and he found three severe skull fractures on Salim's head, and each of these injuries were sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. Aside from the skull fractures, Dr Chui found injuries over Salim's right shoulder,
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125:(佘国明 Shé Guómíng), fled Singapore for Malaysia, where he remained in hiding for a year before his arrest in May 2000. Seah, who claimed that he was acting under sudden and grave provocation and had no intent to fatally assault Salim, was found guilty of murdering Salim and
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425:"Public Prosecutor v Seah Kok Meng [2001] SGHC 25"
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670:"主控官庭上揭内情： 女友遭调戏 男子挥棍打死人 逃亡一年马国落网•被告面对谋杀控状"
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371:"24小时咖啡店前 3恶徒追击 乱棍打死男子"
355:"奔跑500公尺 死者从酒廊 逃到咖啡店".
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959:"因谋杀和贩毒被判死刑 两名男子同被正法"
841:"不甘女友被调戏 乱棍打死人 男友判死刑"
778:"被告友人： 发现被告拿木棍 便拒绝同行"
616:"阿拉伯男子 在餐厅被杀 一嫌犯今天被控"
598:"杀人逃亡1年 男子终于落网 被控谋杀罪"
490:"目睹命案发生 咖啡店老板 又被传召问话"
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688:"傅瑞云 被告棍打死者后把我拉走"
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