Orchard Towers double murders
2002 double murders in Singapore
The Orchard Towers double murders was the case of two deaths occurring at Balmoral Park, Singapore, before the victims' bodies were discovered at a carpark in Orchard Towers, thus the title of the case. The victims were 46-year-old Kho Nai Guan (Xǚ Naĭyuán 许乃元) and Kho's 29-year-old Chinese girlfriend Lan Ya Ming (Lán Yǎmíng 兰雅明), and they were both murdered by Kho's British employer Michael McCrea. McCrea was assisted by his girlfriend Audrey Ong Pei Ling (Wáng Peìlíng 王佩玲) in disposing of the bodies before they both fled Singapore to Australia, where they were caught.
The outcome of the case was Ong and McCrea being extradited back to Singapore in 2002 and 2005 respectively, where they were charged with offences ranging from causing disappearance of evidence to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and sentenced to lengthy jail terms of 12 and 24 years respectively for their roles in the murders. The Orchard Towers double murder case was known to be one of the most infamous murder cases that occurred in Singapore.
Discovery of the victims at Orchard Towers
On 8 January 2002, a security guard named Mohammed Yaacob responded to a report relating to a silver Daewoo Chairman parked on the seventh floor of the Orchard Towers carpark, where it appeared abandoned given that it was sighted at the same spot for the past four days. As Mohammed approached the car, he detected a fetid odour coming from the car. Suspecting that something was wrong, Mohammed called the police.
Upon receiving Mohammed's police report, a team of police officers headed to the Orchard Towers car park where Mohammed found the car. The police then forced open the car and made a gruesome discovery of two decomposing corpses inside the vehicle.
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