2014 Tampines flat stabbing

On 21 August 2014, at her flat in Tampines, 54-year-old Ong Guat Leng (王月玲 Wáng Yuèlíng) was stabbed to death by her 80-year-old father-in-law Char Chin Fah (谢振发 Xiè Zhènfā), who was arrested and charged with murder. It was revealed through investigations and court proceedings that Char did not have a good relationship with Ong, partly due to Char being "difficult to live with" and Ong having scolded Char and argued with Char over this and allegedly disrespected him. Eventually, one of these arguments on the day before the murder drove Char to the edge and he therefore grabbed a knife the next day, slammed the sleeping Ong's head against a wall before he knifed her to death. Char was eventually sentenced to eight years in jail after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter in April 2016. Ten years after the murder, Char, who had since completed his sentence, died at the age of 90 in February 2024.

Fatal stabbing

On the morning of 21 August 2014, a 54-year-old Singaporean woman was found dead at a flat in Tampines, and on that same day itself, an 80-year-old Singaporean man, reportedly the victim's father-in-law, was arrested for the woman's death, which had been classified as murder, and the suspect was expected to be charged with murder the following day.

The victim was identified as 54-year-old Ong Guat Leng, who had 12 siblings and was married with two daughters and one son (all aged in their 20s) at the time of the murder, and her children were already married. Ong, who had a knife embedded on her chest, was said to have been found lying in a pool of blood by one of her daughters, and called the police. The police cordoned off the area and conducted a search in the flat and even the rubbish chute to retrieve evidence; the police retrieved a blood-stained T-shirt and a handkerchief from the flat, and from the rubbish chute, they recovered a bloodstained light grey short and a dented black metal rod measured 1m long. Several neighbours told police that they heard a woman screaming on that morning itself, shortly before Ong was found murdered.