{"product_id":"guilty-as-charged","title":"Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 Singapore Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMurder. Dismemberment. A shooting. A stabbing. Cheating. Murder for gold bars. Murder for a Rolex. Murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book recounts 25 infamous crime cases that have taken place in Singapore since 1965.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the victims’ names are still remembered today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJenny Cheok, 22, killed by her apparently devoted boyfriend Sunny Ang during a diving trip near the Sisters’ Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNine-year-old Agnes Ng and 10-year-old Ghazali Marzuki, killed by self-styled medium Adrian Lim, his wife and his mistress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHuang Na, nine, murdered at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale centre by vegetable packer Took Leng How.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther cases include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tourist from hell, John Martin Scripps, who in 1996 killed South African tourist Gerard George Lowe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChia Teck Leng, sentenced to 42 years in jail in 2004 for swindling four foreign banks out of S$117 million\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe “One-Eyed Dragon”, gun-wielding gangster Tan Chor Jin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sunshine Empire scheme of 2006 that swindled ordinary Singaporeans out of nearly S$190 million\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe killing of two-year-old Nonoi in 2006\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 2015 trial and conviction of Yap Weng Wah, who sexually abused about 30 boys in flats, a chalet and toilet cubicles over three years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuilty As Charged\u003c\/em\u003e, which is edited by \u003cem\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/em\u003e associate news editor Abdul Hafiz, is a detailed retelling of these 25 cases and the trials that followed, and is rich with photographs from \u003cem\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/em\u003e archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Straits Times Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":21015995220081,"sku":"9789814642996","price":25.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/9789814642996_Guilty_2019_HR.jpg?v=1706771203","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/guilty-as-charged","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}