May 27, 2011
IN THE ST NEWSPAPER TODAY
Singaporean to hang for Johor robbery
Singaporean armed robber Lim Tiong Seng (left) and his Malaysian accomplice Wang Hup Huat have had their appeal against the death sentence rejected. -- PHOTO: NEW STRAITS TIMES
A SINGAPOREAN man will not escape the gallows for an armed robbery he committed 10 years ago in Johor, after Malaysia's highest court threw out his appeal.
Lim Tiong Seng, 39, was sentenced to death in 2007 after he was found guilty of firing his gun five times during the botched robbery bid in 2001. One of the bullets hit a passer-by in the back but the man survived.
On Tuesday, the Federal Court in Malaysia upheld Lim's sentence and that of his accomplice Wang Hup Huat, 51. The Malaysian had also been sentenced to death in 2007 for abetting Lim.
Explaining the decision of the three-man Bench, Judge Hashim Yusof said the Johor Baru High Court judge had correctly found the two men guilty in 2007.
The duo had gone to Eng Heng Huat medical hall in Pontian on July 14, 2001 at about 5pm.
Lim had asked the shopowners, two brothers, for medicine, saying he was suffering from kidney failure.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
THAM YUEN-C
