Ng Soo Hin murders
1990 double murders of women by a carpenter in Singapore
Ng Soo Hin (Chinese: 黄树兴; pinyin: Huáng Shùxīng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Sū-hin), a 19-year-old Singaporean carpenter, was charged in March 1990 with the murders of two women Ng Lee Kheng (Chinese: 黄丽卿; pinyin: Huáng Lìqīng; Pe̍h-ūe-jī: N̂g Lĭ-kheng) and Foo Chin Chin (Chinese: 符真真; pinyin: Fǔ Zhēnzhēn; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Fù Chṳ̂n-chṳ̂n), and both victims were each other's best friends, while Foo was Ng's girlfriend. At two different locations, both women were found dead on that same night of 24 March 1990, with the first victim Ng being discovered dead due to a fall from one of the HDB flats at Circuit Road, while the second victim Foo was found dead with 14 stab wounds at East Coast Park. While the killings themselves stirred the whole nation, the killer Ng, who eventually stood trial for solely Foo's murder (the second murder charge was stood down), tried to raise a defence of diminished responsibility to rebut the murder charge against him, but after he was found to be mentally sound at the time of the two murders, the trial court found Ng Soo Hin guilty and sentenced him to death.
Murders
On 24 March 1990, two women were found murdered in two different locations across the whole of Singapore, and these murders had shocked the entire nation at that time.
Ng Lee Kheng
Below a flat at Circuit Road, the first victim, an 18-year-old girl, was allegedly thrown off the 15th floor of the HDB block, and died upon reaching the void deck. Witnesses told the press and police that they saw the girl arguing with a young man while they were both at the corridor and the man was seen hitting the girl. Soon after, the girl was found dead on a void deck, as a result of her falling to her death. Police investigations classified the case as murder, based on the sightings and signs of foul play left at the crime scene. Not only that, three love messages were written with chalk on the walls of the block where the woman was killed, in which these messages were addressed to an "Alice" and signed by "Heng". According to the victim's mother, the name Alice belonged to the best friend of her daughter.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ng Soo Hin murders” is 1990 double murders of women by a carpenter in Singapore. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through murders, double and women, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “1990 double murders of women by a carpenter in Singapore” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116736668. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Ng Soo Hin murders”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Ng Soo Hin murders primary sources, Ng Soo Hin murders archive and murders research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ng Soo Hin murders”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Ng Soo Hin murders” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.