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Chan Seng Onn

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286:, in December 1993. Too, who was arrested four years after the murder, stated he never strangled the professor and testified that it was one of the accomplices who did the killing, but Chan found that Too was a "cold-blooded" murderer who never stepped in to stop his accomplice from strangling the victim to death, and even remorselessly stole Lee's ATM card to make unauthorized withdrawals of money to spend on shopping for himself and his accomplices, and found that he acted in furtherance of the common intention of the trio to commit robbery, and in turn, to silence Lee for the sake of avoid leaving witnesses behind. Hence, Chan found Too guilty of murdering Lee, and sentenced him to death on 28 August 1998. Too was hanged on 30 April 1999 after his appeal failed. As for Too's accomplices, one of them (Ng Chek Siong) was caught in May 1998 and sentenced three months later to eight years' jail with ten strokes of the cane, while the other accomplice (Lee Chez Kee), whom Too claimed was the main offender responsible for the murder, was arrested in February 2006 and likewise executed for murder. 379:, a logistics executive who was charged with sexually assaulting 22 women after befriending them and drugging them. Agreeing with the prosecutors’ description of Azuar as “Singapore’s worst serial rapist”, Chan admonished Azuar for his remorseless behavior and pointing out that the offender had committed the sexual crimes with a high level of premeditation, and also cited Azuar having said numerous lies to distance himself from the fact that he drugged the women and took advantage of them. Labelling Azuar as a menace to society and noting his high possibility to reoffend, Chan sentenced 44-year-old Azuar to a 293:, one of the three kidnappers and mastermind of the abduction of a 14-year-old girl for ransom in September 1999. Chan, in his judgement, noted Lee have no criminal records, and during the course of the kidnapping, he did not harm the girl and treated her well save for the trauma the victim gone through, and thus he decided that the 258:
was killed by Cisco officer Karamjit Singh, who was shot twice in his leg by Ng. Ng was brought to trial in Singapore's High Court for illegally discharging a firearm, and Chan successfully sought a guilty verdict and death sentence for Ng due to the evidence of Ng's fingerprints at the scene of
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in 2014 when Wang tried to appeal the verdict (which was rejected), although the appellate court also amended the double culpable homicide convictions to murder based on the fact that Wang was not mentally unsound when he killed the other two victims.
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to death after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. Nagaenthran was originally set to be hanged on 10 November 2021 after serving 11 years on death row. However, a day before his scheduled hanging, Nagaenthran was discovered to be infected with
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and thus his execution was suspended, with the courts allowing him time to recover and Nagaenthran himself had also appealed to reduce his sentence. The appeal was dismissed on 29 March 2022, and he was executed on 27 April 2022.
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crime and testimony of witnesses who knew about Ng's involvement in the crime, which refuted Ng's claims of an alibi. Ng lost his appeal against the death sentence and he was hanged on 14 July 1995
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Chan Seng Onn was born in Singapore on 4 January 1954 as the youngest of three children, with two sisters. His mother was a housewife and his father worked as a
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In 1987, he joined the Singapore Legal Service as State Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor in the
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for killing the two other victims. Chan's decision to pass the death sentence was upheld by the
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to the Supreme Court in 1991. In 1994, he returned to AGC in the role of Senior State Counsel.
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In August 1998, as Judicial Commissioner, Chan was the presiding judge of the trial of
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During his tenure as a prosecutor, one of the cases prosecuted by Chan was that of
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One of the cases which Chan presided as High Court judge was the 2008
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in 1976. He received a master's degree in industrial engineering from
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scholar, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from
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attendant. He studied at St Anthony's Boys' School and then
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exams. He was a top student alongside future politicians
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Chan was also the presiding judge during the trial of
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In that same year, he was appointed 317:In June 2001, Chan returned to AGC as 313:Tenure as Solicitor-General and judge 267:On 15 October 1997, he was appointed 85:2 July 2007 – 3 January 2022 7: 469: 467: 465: 440: 438: 436: 434: 947:Alumni of University College London 937:Judicial Commissioners of Singapore 611:"Varsity don's killer loses appeal" 14: 284:National University of Singapore 220:National University of Singapore 942:Solicitors-general of Singapore 884:. 27 April 2022. Archived from 575:"Professor's killer gets death" 475:"New high court judge sworn in" 263:Tenure as judicial commissioner 160: 152: 91:Solicitor-General of Singapore 1: 349:Court of Appeal of Singapore 282:, an associate professor of 393:years’ imprisonment and 24 364:Nagaenthran K. 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High Court of Singapore
Incumbent
High Court of Singapore
Solicitor-General of Singapore
Singapore
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
High Court of Singapore
High Court
sewage pump
St Joseph's Institution
GCE O-Level
A-Level
Teo Chee Hean
George Yeo
President's
Colombo Plan
University College London
National University of Singapore
University of Cambridge
Attorney-General's Chambers
Registrar
Ng Theng Shuang
Lee Kok Chin
Judicial Commissioner
Too Yin Sheong
Lee Kok Cheong
National University of Singapore
Vincent Lee Chuan Leong
death penalty

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