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</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Chinese national appears calm as he's charged with murder and offers a big smile to reporters </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh
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42-year-old Chinese national Wang Zhijian flashed a toothy smile at photographers when he saw them snapping his picture. -- LIANHE WANBAO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->He was charged with murder but there were no tears.
Instead, 42-year-old Chinese national Wang Zhijian flashed a toothy smile at photographers when he saw them snapping his picture.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>Life goes on
'Life is back to normal. I'm not afraid. I'll just close the door and be careful not to let strangers in.'
MADAM LIM PEI ZI, a 71-year-old housewife who lives on the same floor where the killings took place
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>At about 9am yesterday, Wang, dressed in a red polo T-shirt and a pair of dark-coloured trousers, appeared at the Subordinate Courts. His right hand was bandaged.
The well-built man appeared calm as he was charged with the murder of Ms Zhang Meng, 42.
She was one of two China-born women found dead in a Yishun flat last Friday. Another China-born woman was found dead at the foot of the same block. A 14-year-old girl, also from China, was found with stab wounds and is in hospital - in the intensive care unit.
If convicted, Wang faces the death penalty.
As he was led back to prison in a police car accompanied by officers, he looked at the crowd of photographers around him and gave a big smile.
He is being detained for further investigations and will appear in court again on Friday.
Police are still investigating the deaths of the other two women and the girl's stabbing.
At about 12.50am on Friday, they received a call about a woman lying motionless and face down at the foot of Block 349 in Yishun Avenue 11.
Combing the flats floor by floor for clues, they found a bloodstained padlock on the sixth floor. Wang was in the house but refused to open the door.
Barging into the unlit flat at about 2am, officers found a 14-year-old Northland Secondary School student seriously injured but alive. Two other occupants, a 17-year-old and Ms Zhang, were dead.
All three women had multiple stab wounds.
Wang was arrested.
Police believe that the crime took place in the flat between 11pm on Thursday and 12.50am on Friday.
The 14-year-old spent the whole of Friday in Tan Tock Seng Hospital's operating theatre. Yesterday, a police spokesman said that she is 'still in the intensive care unit but in a stable condition'.
The four women were mother-daughter pairs. The 14-year-old is said to be the daughter of the 36-year-old woman who was found at the foot of the block, while the 17-year-old was Ms Zhang's daughter.
Neighbours said the two women lived here while their children attended schools around Yishun.
Wang, who neighbours said also lived in the unit, is believed to have been on close terms with the 36-year-old woman.
At the mortuary yesterday morning, reporters waited but no one turned up to identify or claim the women's bodies.
The block where the killings took place was a picture of calm yesterday. Children were seen cycling at the void deck while residents went about their daily chores.
On the sixth floor, the corner unit's metal grille, which the police had forced open on Friday, hung on one side. Smears of blood could still be seen on the step leading to the flat. Outside, a wooden rack was lined with pairs of track and school shoes.
At about noon, a monk showed up outside the unit.
Venerable Shi Fa Rong, 50, who did not know the victims, offered prayers to them and lit joss sticks.
'I heard the news on radio and decided to come and do some chants and offer prayers for the victims,' said the monk in Mandarin. 'This is also to bring some peace to the residents.'
According to neighbours, the man and the two mother-daughter pairs had moved into the unit just a few months ago. The flat had been unoccupied for over a year as the owners could not find tenants. Attempts by The Sunday Times to reach the owners were unsuccessful.
Neighbours said they saw little of the Chinese nationals but often heard them quarrelling loudly.
Housewife Lim Pei Zi, 71, said hordes of police sniffed for clues around the block all through Friday. Yesterday, however, all was quiet.
'Life is back to normal,' said Madam Lim, who lives on the sixth floor. 'I'm not afraid. I'll just close the door and be careful not to let strangers in.'
At Tan Tock Seng Hospital, reporters camped outside the intensive care unit but did not spot anyone visiting the injured girl.
When contacted, Northland's principal Gan Chee Hau said he has yet to receive confirmation from the police of the girl's identity and declined to comment further. [email protected]
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>THE Smiling suspect
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Chinese national appears calm as he's charged with murder and offers a big smile to reporters </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Mavis Toh
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42-year-old Chinese national Wang Zhijian flashed a toothy smile at photographers when he saw them snapping his picture. -- LIANHE WANBAO
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->He was charged with murder but there were no tears.
Instead, 42-year-old Chinese national Wang Zhijian flashed a toothy smile at photographers when he saw them snapping his picture.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><STYLE type=text/css> #related .quote {background-color:#E7F7FF; padding:8px;margin:0px 0px 5px 0px;} #related .quote .headline {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px;font-weight:bold; border-bottom:3px double #007BFF; color:#036; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:5px;} #related .quote .text {font-size:11px;color:#036;padding:5px 0px;} </STYLE>Life goes on
'Life is back to normal. I'm not afraid. I'll just close the door and be careful not to let strangers in.'
MADAM LIM PEI ZI, a 71-year-old housewife who lives on the same floor where the killings took place
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>At about 9am yesterday, Wang, dressed in a red polo T-shirt and a pair of dark-coloured trousers, appeared at the Subordinate Courts. His right hand was bandaged.
The well-built man appeared calm as he was charged with the murder of Ms Zhang Meng, 42.
She was one of two China-born women found dead in a Yishun flat last Friday. Another China-born woman was found dead at the foot of the same block. A 14-year-old girl, also from China, was found with stab wounds and is in hospital - in the intensive care unit.
If convicted, Wang faces the death penalty.
As he was led back to prison in a police car accompanied by officers, he looked at the crowd of photographers around him and gave a big smile.
He is being detained for further investigations and will appear in court again on Friday.
Police are still investigating the deaths of the other two women and the girl's stabbing.
At about 12.50am on Friday, they received a call about a woman lying motionless and face down at the foot of Block 349 in Yishun Avenue 11.
Combing the flats floor by floor for clues, they found a bloodstained padlock on the sixth floor. Wang was in the house but refused to open the door.
Barging into the unlit flat at about 2am, officers found a 14-year-old Northland Secondary School student seriously injured but alive. Two other occupants, a 17-year-old and Ms Zhang, were dead.
All three women had multiple stab wounds.
Wang was arrested.
Police believe that the crime took place in the flat between 11pm on Thursday and 12.50am on Friday.
The 14-year-old spent the whole of Friday in Tan Tock Seng Hospital's operating theatre. Yesterday, a police spokesman said that she is 'still in the intensive care unit but in a stable condition'.
The four women were mother-daughter pairs. The 14-year-old is said to be the daughter of the 36-year-old woman who was found at the foot of the block, while the 17-year-old was Ms Zhang's daughter.
Neighbours said the two women lived here while their children attended schools around Yishun.
Wang, who neighbours said also lived in the unit, is believed to have been on close terms with the 36-year-old woman.
At the mortuary yesterday morning, reporters waited but no one turned up to identify or claim the women's bodies.
The block where the killings took place was a picture of calm yesterday. Children were seen cycling at the void deck while residents went about their daily chores.
On the sixth floor, the corner unit's metal grille, which the police had forced open on Friday, hung on one side. Smears of blood could still be seen on the step leading to the flat. Outside, a wooden rack was lined with pairs of track and school shoes.
At about noon, a monk showed up outside the unit.
Venerable Shi Fa Rong, 50, who did not know the victims, offered prayers to them and lit joss sticks.
'I heard the news on radio and decided to come and do some chants and offer prayers for the victims,' said the monk in Mandarin. 'This is also to bring some peace to the residents.'
According to neighbours, the man and the two mother-daughter pairs had moved into the unit just a few months ago. The flat had been unoccupied for over a year as the owners could not find tenants. Attempts by The Sunday Times to reach the owners were unsuccessful.
Neighbours said they saw little of the Chinese nationals but often heard them quarrelling loudly.
Housewife Lim Pei Zi, 71, said hordes of police sniffed for clues around the block all through Friday. Yesterday, however, all was quiet.
'Life is back to normal,' said Madam Lim, who lives on the sixth floor. 'I'm not afraid. I'll just close the door and be careful not to let strangers in.'
At Tan Tock Seng Hospital, reporters camped outside the intensive care unit but did not spot anyone visiting the injured girl.
When contacted, Northland's principal Gan Chee Hau said he has yet to receive confirmation from the police of the girl's identity and declined to comment further. [email protected]