WOODLANDS DRIVE MURDER suspect arrested
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Oct 15, 2010 - Straits Times
by Teh Joo Lin
WITHIN three weeks, police have caught a 20-year-old suspect in connection with the murder of a woman in Woodlands Drive on Sept 22, following the release of a revised photofit of the suspect earlier this week.
Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department's special section tracked down the male suspect and arrested him on Thursday.
Police said on Friday that preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect is also believed to be involved in the attack of a woman jogger at Khatib Bongsu Park Connector on Feb 2.
The suspect will be charged in court on Saturday for murder, and faces the death penalty if he is convicted.
CID Director, Senior Assistant Commissioner Ng Boon Gay commended the officers who worked round-the-clock to solve the case.
In the Woodlands case, the body of Ms Hoe Hong Lin, 32, a clerk, was found with at least one stab wound, next to a basketball court beside Block 895C, Woodlands Drive 50, after celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with her husband, son and nephew in a playground about 200m away from their block.
She was believed to have been attacked on her way back after walking her nephew to her sister's flat at nearby Woodlands Drive 14.
In the other case, a health-care worker was attacked on Feb 2 at the Khatib Bongsu park connector in Yishun Avenue 6. During the struggle, she grabbed the knife, causing it to break at the handle. The blade was later recovered at the scene.
The victim suffered multiple wounds on her face and upper body, and a C-shaped open wound on her right cheek She was slashed just four days after another woman was knifed nearby, also in Yishun.
Following the park attack, police released a photofit put together by the 23-year-old jogger, which showed a man with longer hair and smaller eyes. In a new clearer photo released on Tuesday, the suspect has a short crop and strong features.
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I add the picture...
original picture here:
http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20101013/photofit.jpg
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he gay ah
dun like women
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
I add the picture...
original picture here:
http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20101013/photofit.jpg
PRC?
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Originally posted by Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1):
he gay ah
dun like women
Bf bisexual... got snatched away by a woman lor...
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sure looks like one fresh from china 1.
must be from gay bar gay bar gay bar. but see the angmoh happily shredding and sliding guitar this gay woman hater with one screw loose in the mind choses to be an assasin of the house of the flying daggers. only he had not must the skill to throw knives from a distance with 100 percent guarantee of hitting victims and targets.
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Nay, he's a singaporean and currently a NSF.
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looks like direct desendant from a china mother and father
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Originally posted by troublemaker2005:
looks like direct desendant from a china mother and father
Ya. He looks like he spent 20 years living in China.
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Hoe Hong Lin is quite pretty
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Probably someone asked him to kill that lady.
A 20yr olg man will be gone if convicted.
Stupid fool!
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Nowadays, youngsters thought that they fight, they injured people, they killed people, they are Spore hero.
But they are totally wrong, you will have to pay for your life if you kill someone in Spore.
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use knife where got shiok? no hero ah gua only stupid chinaman look , just use bare fist come jio me. fight one to one. no need suprise attack. blow by blow and we see who down first.
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Originally posted by dechang:
Hoe Hong Lin is quite pretty
eye got problem
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Extremely scary, this psycho preys on ladies with shoulder length hair (the victim was his 4th) and stabs them from the back without them knowing. Either he plays too much Assassin Creed or he had a deprived childhood, or BOTH...
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Everyone should watch their back now.
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Must go to bicycle shop to buy a side mirror.
Carry it and constantly look at the mirror.
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to those who like to make presumptions, its amazing how you can come up with such stupid postings. if you have nothing to say then just read the article and stop sprouting nonsense.
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but i really annot stand the face match i am sure the murder has this kind of look and its like a chinamn look i feel like punching the face. also i don;t like the tactics, intentional or hurting someone who are a stanger and you hardly do did not cross your path and repeated killings worse its not even robbery and also use weapon don;t dar eto 1 21 i must spit at the murderer. don;t act blur say depress or got mental problem keng lah sorry i also depressed ,ental problem that's why i type all these.
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Originally posted by dotaro:
Extremely scary, this psycho preys on ladies with shoulder length hair (the victim was his 4th) and stabs them from the back without them knowing. Either he plays too much Assassin Creed or he had a deprived childhood, or BOTH...
you so smart know it all, be careful watch your own briain first. not all whopay AC or has a less fortunate hildhood ends up like that. this guy has got a weak mind just like you. -
SINGAPORE : A 20-year-old full-time national serviceman has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 32-year-old woman at Woodlands Drive 50 that took place on September 22.
He is also believed to be involved in another stabbing attack that happened in February.
Earlier this week, police released a photofit of the assailant believed to be involved in the stabbing attack on a female jogger along the Khatib Bongsu Park connector on February 2. He is also said to be connected to the murder of Hoe Hong Lin at Woodlands Drive 50 on September 22.
The suspect, a full-time national serviceman with the Republic of Singapore Navy, was handed over to the police on Thursday evening.
The Defence Ministry said he was in custody of the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command, awaiting trial for the offence of Absent Without Official Leave.
He is believed to have attacked Ms Hoe at a park while she was on the way home at night. A 13-centimetre knife was recovered at the scene.
Police said the suspect has no criminal records, and that the motive behind the murder has not been determined, pending police investigations. But it is understood that the possibility that the suspect could be suffering from a mental illness has not be ruled out.
Police said it was not an easy task to narrow down the suspect. The effort required the help of external agencies like the Health Sciences Authority, and forensic evidence played a key role in this case.
Foo Jit Choon, assistant superintendent in the Special Investigation Section of CID, said: "With regards to the Woodlands murder, the unknown can be attributed to two factors - the victim and the suspect do not know each other, and secondly, at the time of the incident, it was very dark. Even though we had witnesses, they were unable to pinpoint to us exactly who was the suspect."
Police are also investigating if the suspect is also involved in two other similar attacks in January and May this year.
In all the four cases, the victims are Chinese women in their 20s and 30s, slim built and have shoulder length hair.
They were alone at the time of the attack and nothing was stolen from them.
It also appears that they were targeted at random.
Ms Hoe leaves behind her husband and two children.
Her eldest brother Nicholas Hoe said the family was informed of the arrest on Thursday night.
He said the family feels relieved and hopes justice would be served.
Mr Hoe said: "Let's say if this guy has no motive and it is just a random attack, I believe it is really unfair to my sister, she is really innocent. It is very hard, especially for my parents, but we have been trying to call them, trying to make sure that they are fine.
"My brother also tries to bring them out, so that they would not just stay at home and keep thinking about my sister. Last night, after we received the information from police that they have detained the suspect, I informed my family and they also feel relieved."
The suspect will be charged in court on Saturday with murder.
If convicted, he faces the death penalty. - CNA/ir/ms -
serial killer?
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let them investiagte first. the other murders see if also done by the same retard bastard. hope the same guy then police can close the case. if its mutiple mental retards then the danger in that area is not over yet. i worry woodlands area because i know got one swee girl i photographed before stay that area so i worried for her too.
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Originally posted by troublemaker2005:
let them investiagte first. the other murders see if also done by the same retard bastard. hope the same guy then police can close the case. if its mutiple mental retards then the danger in that area is not over yet. i worry woodlands area because i know got one swee girl i photographed before stay that area so i worried for her too.
After you mentioned that you photographed this "swee girl", I'm even more worried for her. Sorry, not picking up a flame here. Anyway, this same mental retard may very well be a sgforumite. Sometimes, signs and clues can be picked up from the postings here...
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Originally posted by dotaro:
After you mentioned that you photographed this "swee girl", I'm even more worried for her. Sorry, not picking up a flame here. Anyway, this same mental retard may very well be a sgforumite. Sometimes, signs and clues can be picked up from the postings here...
your dman right. some stalk me everywhere. now stalk until sgforums. why you jealous i photography swee girl issit? its angie lah. she stay at woodlands. which part?? i won;t tell. i hope police quick catch the murder if its someone else. dotaro you need to buy akite before flying it.