Kallang Bahru rape and murder
1984 rape and murder of a woman at Singapore's Kallang Bahru / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 2 November 1984, 19-year-old interior designer Lim Hwee Huang (Chinese: 林桂芳; pinyin: Lín Guìfāng)[lower-alpha 1] was thrown off a tenth storey HDB flat at Kallang Bahru, after she was raped by 27-year-old Eurasian Singaporean Hensley Anthony Neville, who fled to the neighbouring country Malaysia. He was on the run for more than two years before he was finally arrested by Malaysian police, who sent him back to Singapore in March 1987 for the charge of murdering Lim. Neville, who was caught in the Malaysian state of Selangor, was also a suspect behind two unsolved killings in Malaysia.
Lim Hwee Huang | |
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Born | Lim Hwee Huang 1965 (1965) Singapore |
Died | 2 November 1984 (aged 19) Kallang Bahru, Singapore |
Cause of death | Murdered |
Resting place | An unnamed cemetery in Singapore |
Nationality | Singaporean (Chinese) |
Other names | Michelle Lim Lim Kwee Huang |
Education | Holy Innocents' Primary School Nan Hua High School |
Occupation | Interior designer |
Employer | Unnamed interior design company at Balestier |
Known for | Murder victim |
Parent(s) | Lim Kok Kian (father) Tan Siok Kim (mother) |
Despite facing a capital murder charge and the death penalty, Neville refused to be assigned a lawyer in his case and elected to represent himself in court. He became the first person to stand trial for murder without a lawyer in Singapore. Six years after he first committed the crime, Neville was found guilty of the murder of Lim Hwee Huang, and he was sentenced to death by the High Court on 22 November 1990, and he was hanged after he lost his appeal.[1]