Ex-prosecutor and former Commercial Affairs Department director Glenn Knight dies on Scoot flight back to Singapore

[Sustanon]

I believe Glenn Knight has passed away.

Ohhh.... ok Hi Glenn, Bye Glenn.....

 

[True Believer]

Ohhh.... ok Hi Glenn, Bye Glenn.....

Good Knight, Glenn.

 

[True Believer]

Ohhh.... ok Hi Glenn, Bye Glenn.....

The title of this thread is Ex-prosecutor and former Commercial Affairs Department director Glenn Knight dies on Scoot flight back to Singapore - not Ex-prosecutor and former Commercial Affairs Department director Glenn Knight faints on Scoot flight back to Singapore.

 

[Leongsam]

Ex-prosecutor and former Commercial Affairs Department director Glenn Knight dies​

Lawyer Glenn Knight, a former director of the police’s Commercial Affairs Department, has died at 80.PHOTO: ST FILE

Samuel Devaraj
UPDATED FEB 19, 2025, 06:17 PM

SINGAPORE – Lawyer and former director of the police’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) Glenn Knight has died at 80.

A close friend told The Straits Times that he was contacted by the police on the morning of Feb 19, informing him of the news.

Mr Knight was widowed without children. His wife died some years ago.

The former public prosecutor died while returning from Australia on a Scoot flight.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it was alerted to a possible case of death on board Flight TR21 at about 12.40am on Feb 19.

A spokesperson added that police officers boarded the aircraft after it landed in Singapore at 3am and found an 80-year-old man motionless in a seat.

A medical doctor pronounced him dead at the scene.

The spokesperson said that investigations are ongoing, but based on preliminary investigations, police do not suspect foul play.

Mr Knight was involved in setting up the CAD in 1984 after years of prosecuting a number of high-profile criminal cases.

These included the Toa Payoh ritual murder case in 1981 involving Adrian Lim, a self-proclaimed medium behind the deaths of two children.

Lim and his accomplices – his two “holy wives” – were sentenced to death in 1983.

Mr Knight was also involved in the prosecution of businessmen Peter Tham and Tan Koon Swan for their roles in the collapse of conglomerate Pan-Electric Industries.

Mr Knight was in 1991 investigated over corruption allegations and lost his post at CAD. He was later convicted.

Following his first conviction, Mr Knight was disbarred from legal practice in 1994. Four years later, he was convicted of misappropriating CAD funds during his stint as director.

His application to be reinstated as a lawyer was granted in 2007, making him the sixth lawyer to be reinstated as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Mr Knight joined a law firm that year, after his reinstatement, before setting up his own practice in 2010, where he remained until his death.

Criminal lawyer Eugene Thuraisingam told ST that Mr Knight was very kind and supportive of him when Mr Thuraisingam set up his own law firm in 2012, referring clients to him and working on some cases together.

He described Mr Knight as an excellent lawyer with a keen intellect and sense of justice.

“It was important for him to work with younger lawyers as he valued being a mentor and passing on what he knew.

“He was a giant in the legal world and he will be missed by many in the profession,” Mr Thuraisingam added.

Mr Knight’s wake will be held from 11am from Feb 20 to 23 at the Crystal Hall at Level 4 of Singapore Casket at 131 Lavender Street.

The cortege will leave at 10.40am on Feb 23 for Mandai Crematorium Hall 3 and the cremation will take place at 11.40am.

I knew these budget airlines could be bad but I didn't know they were deadly.

 

[True Believer]

I knew these budget airlines could be bad but I didn't know they were deadly.

Whether it is a budget airline or regular one, there is one seat that I avoid on an aeroplane. It is the toilet seat because there are no seat belts. Hahaha!

 

[jsctan]

RIP. Can face off with LKY and those who got you down.

 

[NanoSpeed]

RIP. Can face off with LKY and those who got you down.

How to fight LKY ? He went down 10 years earlier, probably risen to the rank of Colonel already. Glenn will start as a recruit first.

 

[firehyrant]

How to fight LKY ? He went down 10 years earlier, probably risen to the rank of Colonel already. Glenn will start as a recruit first.

maybe lay tio court martial for human rights abuses and demoted to recruit perpetually?

 

[Papsmearer]

I don't respect this kind of assholes. Die so what? During his heyday, he was Old Fart's attack dog. Old Fart very happy to have an obedient Indian dog do his bidding. He knows so many skeletons in the closet. He should have been like Francis Seow or Devan Nair. Migrate overseas and write a tell all book. Who was he investigating that caused his downfall? Spill the beans. But now, he will take everything to his grave. I remembered they really whacked him and went after his wife too. He should have done something with his life and fuck up LKY with a book. Let them come and sue him in an angmo country.

 

[k1976]

What Elon Musk’s DOGE Can Learn From Malaysia​

Moving fast and breaking things might work in Silicon Valley, but not in governing.
20 February 2025 at 4:00 AM SGT
By Catherine Thorbecke
Catherine Thorbecke is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech. Previously she was a tech reporter at CNN and ABC News.

Malaysia is moving slow as it rolls out AI for government tasks.
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Would you trust artificial intelligence to help run your country? Malaysia is doing just that, turning to AI to help with some of the more tedious parts of governing.

The Southeast Asian nation announced a plan to roll out Google’s Gemini AI tools to nearly half a million civil servants as part of a broader top-down push to help make its workforce more efficient.
https://www.bloomberg.com/professio...n=trmnl&utm_content=web_dotcom&tactic=7949991

 

[NanoSpeed]

What Elon Musk’s DOGE Can Learn From Malaysia​

Moving fast and breaking things might work in Silicon Valley, but not in governing.
20 February 2025 at 4:00 AM SGT
By Catherine Thorbecke
Catherine Thorbecke is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia tech. Previously she was a tech reporter at CNN and ABC News.

Malaysia is moving slow as it rolls out AI for government tasks.
Photographer: Ian Teh/Bloomberg
Save
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Would you trust artificial intelligence to help run your country? Malaysia is doing just that, turning to AI to help with some of the more tedious parts of governing.

The Southeast Asian nation announced a plan to roll out Google’s Gemini AI tools to nearly half a million civil servants as part of a broader top-down push to help make its workforce more efficient.
https://www.bloomberg.com/professio...n=trmnl&utm_content=web_dotcom&tactic=7949991

Post irrelevant stuff again.

 

[firehyrant]

Post irrelevant stuff again.

IB tactic...disgusting character

 

[Papsmearer]

Kenneth Jeyaratnam fucked this piece of dogshit good.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam​

State media is notably silent on Glenn Knight’s perhaps most famous case, the prosecution of my father JBJ for a non existent offence in 1986 which the Privy Council overturned in 1988, calling it a grievous miscarriage of justice. Due to the AG, Tan Boon Teik, best man at my dad’s wedding, bringing the action in the District Court, the Privy Council were unable to vacate the conviction and asked the PAP Government to pardon him. They of course declined to do so stating that he had shown “insufficient remorse” for a crime of which he wasn’t guilty. I remember Knight’s rabid attacks in court on my father. My father lost his Parliamentary seat, a fate that the PAP have not sought to impose on Pritam Singh, and was unable to stand again till 1997.
You can view it as a form of karmic justice that Knight was convicted subsequently of corruption and CBT and struck off, a fate that CJ Wee Chong Jin, LKY’s best friend, tried to impose on JBJ but was thwarted by the Privy Council. Or rather than karmic justice indicative of the kind of venal people that LKY and the PAP were willing to use in their campaign to remove JBJ from Parliament at any cost.