2016 Geylang stabbing death

On 9 July 2016, Goh Eng Thiam, a 52-year-old coffee shop worker, was attacked and stabbed six times by Toh Sia Guan, a 64-year-old scrap dealer, in front of several witnesses outside a coffee shop along Lorong 23 Geylang, Singapore. Goh, who sustained several knife wounds, died following massive bleeding from a stab wound to his right arm which cut through a major blood artery. Prior to the stabbing, the two had gotten into a fight after Toh allegedly provoked Goh by asking if he was selling medicine; this caused Goh to fight Toh, who subsequently purchased a knife to seek revenge.

Toh was recognised by the witnesses and others as a homeless karang guni nicknamed "Hong Qigong" who often collected cardboard throughout Geylang to re-sell it for money. The police arrested Toh after twelve days of tracing him. On 2 March 2020, four years after the crime, Toh was charged and found guilty of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Fatal fight at Geylang

On the morning of 9 July 2016, outside a kopitiam at Geylang and in front of several witnesses, a 52-year-old male customer of the shop was attacked by an elderly man, who used a knife to slash and stab him several times, including on the chest and arms. Both men later exchanged blows while lying on the ground before a taxi driver shouted at the pair, causing the elderly man to quickly flee the scene of crime; his knife was abandoned near the scene of crime. The injured victim, Goh Eng Thiam, who subsequently lay down on the curb at the roadside due to exhaustion after the fight, eventually lost consciousness and upon the arrival of the ambulance, Goh was pronounced dead at 8.11 am. The forensic pathologist, Dr Paul Chui, later performed an autopsy on Goh and determined that the cause of Goh's death was a single knife wound to the right upper arm, which cut through a major blood artery and resulted in Goh's death due to massive bleeding from the wound.