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Three Myanmar Men Charged With Conspiring To Kill Own Citizen In Singapore

Three Myanmar men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to murder a fellow national in Singapore with a gruesome collection of instruments including a chainsaw, a meat mincer, a cleaver and a chopping board.

Myanmar nationals Yae Wynnt Oaung, 32, Phyo Min Naing, 31, as well as Singapore permanent resident Zaw Min Hlaing, 37, were charged in a district court with plotting to murder another Singapore permanent resident, Aye Maung Maung Thet, 28.

A fourth suspect, 29-year-old Myanmar national Win Kyaw Kyaw Aung, left Singapore on Monday morning, police said.

The offence is punishable by up to 14 years in jail plus a fine.

The four men attempted to abduct Aye Maung Maung Thet at a suburban carpark on Sunday evening, with two of them assaulting him with a taser, an electrical device designed to stun and disable a person, court documents said.

The men fled when the victim’s cries for help attracted the attention of passers-by.

They were arrested the following day, two of them at a rented seaside chalet in Singapore’s eastern region.

“Items such as a meat mincer, chainsaw, kitchen knives, gas cooker, gas cylinder tank, a tool set, trolley bags, plastic sheets, cable ties, cleaver, aprons, chopping board and rubber boots were also recovered from the chalet and seized as case exhibits,” the police said.

In court on Wednesday, the three men, dressed in civilian attire and handcuffed, appeared sombre as the charges were read to them in Burmese, the Myanmar national language, by an interpreter.

No pleas were entered. They were ordered remanded in police custody for one week to assist in investigations.

The case follows a spate of murder cases in neighbouring Malaysia last year involving Myanmar nationals, mostly in the northern state of Penang. In some cases, victims were decapitated or had some of their body parts severed.

Malaysian police have said they believed the attacks are related to violent clashes in Myanmar between members of the Buddhist majority and its population of Rohingya, a Muslim minority.

But the motive for the botched murder plot in Singapore has not been disclosed.

Gruesome murders are rare in Singapore, a densely populated island of 5.5 million, 40 percent of them foreigners.

Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

June 25, 2015
Maid Jailed 12 Years For Strangling 16 Year Old Daughter Of Employer

A domestic maid who strangled her employer’s 16-year-old daughter with the girl’s own school pinafore while the teenager was asleep, was on Monday jailed for 12 years.

Indonesian Tuti Aeliyah, 30, pleaded guilty in the High Court to one charge of culpable homicide for killing Shameera Basha Noor Basha, a Secondary 4 student at Tanjong Katong Girls’ School, on Nov 14, 2013.

Tuti was originally charged with murder, but the charge was reduced after she was diagnosed to be suffering from severe depression with psychotic symptoms at the time. Her mental condition was found to have significantly impaired her judgment.

The High Court heard on Monday that Tuti, who started working for the teen’s family of four in April 2012, was not abused or ill-treated by her employers.

But several months before the killing, she started behaving strangely. She lost weight, did not want to call home and cried frequently. Two weeks before the incident, she told a neighbour’s maid that she wanted to commit suicide.

She told a psychiatrist that the night before the killing, she tried to kill herself but failed.

The next morning, Shameera was still asleep and alone at home with the maid after her parents and brother left their Tampines flat. The maid claimed that while she was in the toilet, she saw a ghost which told her to kill the teenager.

At 8am, armed with a kitchen knife, she went into the teen’s room and tried to smother her with a pillow. After Shameera woke up and struggled, the maid stabbed her in the abdomen and chest. The maid then looped Shameera’s dark green pinafore around her neck a few times and pulled both ends until the teen stopped moving.

Tuti then drank half a capful of fabric softener, made superficial cuts on her wrist with a knife and tried to hang herself from from a toilet pipe but failed to kill herself.

Half an hour past noon, when the teen’s mother returned home, the maid told her employer that she had killed Shameera. Shocked, the 47-year-old woman sought help from a neighbour, who called the police.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 25, 2015
Woman In Centre Of Geylang Murder Case Dissociates Herself From Men

The woman at the center of the Geylang Lorong 8 murder case has come out to give her say: “I admit that I know both of them (the suspect and deceased), but those two men have nothing to do with me.”

Shin Min News reported yesterday that two men got into a quarrel over a woman, which resulted in one man stabbing the other in the waist, killing him and leaving him on the street where the victim bled to death.

The incident took place at about 9PM in a coffeeshop between Geylang Lorong 6 and 8. The deceased is a 48 year-old local Malay man named Rashid.

The suspect was a 55 year-old elderly Malay man who wore a red hat.

Eye witnesses overheard the two men arguing over the 40 year-old Siti, who works as a cleaner.

Siti was approached by the media for her comments. She said she knew the suspect and the victim, but they did not have a relationship with her.

“I worked at this coffeeshop last year for two months as a coffeeshop helper. I got to know them during this time as they are regulars there. They were there almost everyday.”

However, she quit her job as a helper and went to work for a backpacking hostel and did not have anymore contact with the 2 men.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

May 6, 2015
55 Year Old Arrested In Geylang For Murder

Police have arrested a 55-year-old man in connection with the murder of a man in Geylang on Sunday night.

Investigations are ongoing.

The police said that they received a call for assistance at Lorong 8 Geylang at about 9.10pm. The police found the 48-year-old victim lying motionless at the scene.

He was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he was subsequently pronounced dead just after 10pm.

Shin Min Daily News reported that witnesses interviewed at the coffeeshop said they knew the victim to be an argumentative person.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 5, 2015
‘The Purge’ Comes Alive In Moscow

MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian couple allegedly carried out a string of murders targeting homeless people in Moscow to “clean up” the city, investigators said on Friday.

Moscow’s Investigative Committee said it had detained a 20-year-old man on suspicion of seven murders and a 25-year-old woman believed to have taken part in four of the killings.

“The detained man said he committed the murders with the aim of ‘cleaning up’ the city,” investigators said.

The man is suspected of committing the murders in Moscow, “choosing as his victims homeless people who were fond of drinking alcohol” and carrying out the crimes in lonely places at night, the investigators said in a statement.

According to Life News website, the couple killed several people who were simply drinking in parks. It quoted their first alleged victim’s father, Alexander Yevseyev, as saying his 35-year-old son Sergei had simply gone out to have a beer with a friend in a wooded park and was stabbed 107 times in a frenzied attack.

The killers’ second alleged victim was a man who lived in a communal flat but spent much of his time drinking in parks, Life News reported, while the rest of their victims were actually homeless.

The couple were captured after they knifed a street cleaner, who survived and managed to identify them to police, Life News added in a report.

It said the operation to capture them was carried out together with the powerful FSB security service.

Russia does not issue official statistics about the number of homeless people but is believed to have three to four million out of an official population of more than 140 million.

In Moscow, homeless people often huddle at mainline railway stations or sleep in metro trains.

In 2007, a notorious serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin was jailed for 48 murders in Moscow’s Bitsevsky Park.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

February 21, 2015