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2 December 2024: The case of a 30-year-old woman found dead in a flat along Dover Road was classified as murder by the Singapore police. A 34-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the murder, left Singapore prior to the police receiving a call for assistance. The suspect and the victim were known to each other.
The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore.They are arranged in chronological order. Major crimes such as murder, homicide, kidnapping, rape and sexual assault, as well as firearms- and explosive-related crimes, are dealt with by the Major Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Singapore Police Force. [1]
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singaporean law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organized Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime .
Singaporean criminal law (6 C, 15 P) M. Missing person cases in Singapore (20 P) Murder in Singapore (13 C, 191 ... (2 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Crime in Singapore"
2 May 1999: At a coffeeshop in Singapore's Geylang, 56-year-old rag-and-bone man S. Salim Ahmad was brutally battered to death by Seah Kok Meng, whose girlfriend was allegedly harassed by Salim. Seah fled to Malaysia after murdering Salim, but he was arrested and extradited back to Singapore in May 2000 and charged with murder.
Kanesan confessed to the murder, saying that he was angry with Shankar over spilled tea and wanted the death penalty after several suicide attempts. Kanesan (in remand for a sex crime) was charged with murder and, after a three-day trial, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on 27 February 2002. He was hanged on 10 January 2003.
Iskandar fled to Malaysia shortly, he was arrested in Johor Bahru two days later, extradited back to Singapore and charged with murder three days after arrest. On 4 December 2015, following unsuccessful claims of self-defence and that the killings was a result of a robbery gone wrong, Iskandar was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.