SG's most recent gruesome murders

A legless body was found in a suitcase Wednesday along Syed Alwi Road, the latest in a string of recent gruesome murder cases here. 

We run down six of the most shocking:

1. Legless body

The gruesome discovery was made at about 6pm on Wednesday by a karung guni man, who had found the suitcase and wanted to sell it but found that it was too heavy to carry. Two men helped the karung guni man only to realise their hands were soon covered in blood. Police have now classified the case as an unnatural death and are investigating.

A mutilated body was found in a luggage along Syed Alwi Road. Photo: Gavin Foo  

2. Headless body

Madam Kaur’s headless body was found in Whampoa River in Dec 2013. The police went on the hunt for her husband, who left the country through Woodlands checkpoint half an hour before his wife’s body was found. Forklift driver Gursharan Singh, 25, was charged with her murder, while the husband, Harvinder Singh, is on Interpol's wanted list. 

Police officers flanking Indian national Gursharan Singh, who has been charged with the murder of Madam Jasvinder Kaur on 20 December 2013, as he retraces his steps along the route which he and another man allegedly took to dump Madam Kaur’s body in the Whampoa River. Choo Chwee Hua
 
Police officers with the headless corpse found floating in Whampoa River on 12 December 2013. The corpse's hands had been hacked off. The police have classified the case as a murder. Photo: Gary Goh

3. Tampines stabbing

In Nov 2013, an Indonesian domestic helper allegedly stabbed her employer’s 16-year-old daughter twice and watched as she bled to death in the family's Tampines flat.

Undertakers and police officers removing the body of a teenage girl from a 10th-storey unit at Block 856, Tampines Street 82 on 14 November 2013. Photo: Benjamin Seetor
 
The view of a 10th-storey unit at Block 856, Tampines Street 82, where the body of a teenage girl was found on 14 November 2013. 

4. Kovan double murder

The body of a man, identified as 42-year-old Tan Chee Heong, was found on the road outside Kovan MRT station in July 2013. He had been dragged under a car for about 1km. A blood trail led to his father’s house in Hillside Drive, where his father, Mr Tan Boon Sin, 67, was found dead with slash wounds. Former police officer Iskandar Rahmat, 34, was arrested by Malaysian police at a Johor Baru restaurant. He was repatriated and charged with two counts of murder. He faces the death penalty.

The exterior of 14J Hills Drive, a terrace house where Mr Tan Boon Sin, a car workshop owner and fishing enthusiast, was found dead on 10 July 2013. His son, Mr Tan Chee Heong, also died in the double murder and the silver Toyota Camry that had dragged his son over 1km from the elder Mr Tan's terrace house at Hillside Drive to Kovan MRT station was located the next day. Photo: Choo Chwee Hua
 
Police officers near the police tent where Mr Tan Chee Heong lies at the taxi stand just outside Kovan MRT station. He was dragged there under a silver Toyota Camry for 1km along busy Upper Serangoon Road on 10 July 2013. Photo: ST
 

5. Park stabbing

A full-time national serviceman Soh Wee Kian stabbed four women in 2010. One of whom, a mother of two who was killed. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He followed young women for short distances, sometimes stopping when they went into a lift or got close to their school. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to another woman, Ms How Poh Ling, who had been the third victim in his series of attacks.

Soh Wee Kian (shackled at both wrists and feet) being led to the Woodlands basketball court where Madam Hoe Hong Lin, 32, was killed in September 2010. Photo: ST

6. Woman in cardboard box

Ms Yulia Afriyanti, is alleged to have died at the hands of her lover in a crime of passion. The 25-year-old was found naked, stuffed in a cardboard box in the uncompleted Viz@Holland condominium in Queensway on Dec 16, 2007. She had been strangled by construction worker Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, a Bangladeshi national who worked at the site. Ms Yulia’s body was found in a cardboard box – measuring 1m long, 0.75m wide and 0.75m deep – on the third floor. Kamrul Hasan was convicted of her murder in January 2010 and sentenced to hang.The High Court found that he had had sex with Miss Yulia before he strangled her and dumped her naked body at the scene.

The naked body of Indonesian maid Yulia Afriyanti was found stuffed into a cardboard box in the uncompleted Viz@Holland condominium in Queensway on 16 December 2007. Photo: ST

Sources: The New Paper, The Straits Times