Upper Boon Keng Road murder
On the
Christmas Eve night of 24 December 2005, 41-year-old
Myanmar national
Thein Naing was brutally assaulted and murdered by a group of three Malaysians, who robbed him of
S$40, on a footpath along
Upper Boon Keng Road. The three killers, together with a fourth man who acted as a lookout, were all arrested and charged with murder. Although one of the robbers,
Benedict Inyang Anak Igal, was sentenced to five years' jail and
12 strokes of the cane for robbery with hurt, the remaining three robbers -
Hamir bin Hasim,
Kamal bin Kupli and
Abdul Malik bin Usman - who were identified as the ones responsible for fatally assaulting the victim, were all found guilty of murdering Thein and
sentenced to death on 1 March 2007. The trio later lost their appeals in February 2008, and they were since hanged for the murder.
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