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Fugitive gets 10 years' preventive detention for 2 assaults
Published on Feb 29, 2012
Tan Giam Koon, 55, who had been on the run for the last 18 years over two stabbing incidents was sentenced to 10 years' preventive detention. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
By Elena Chong
A 55-year-old man who had been on the run for the last 18 years over two stabbing incidents was sentenced to 10 years' preventive detention on Wednesday.
Tan Giam Koon was 34 and a member of a secret society gang when he and three fellow gang members grievously hurt Mr Lay Chee Chew, a 19-year-old Malaysian mechanic, and Mr Lay's employer, Mr Lim Meng Khooi, then 39, at Balestier Point on June 10, 1991.
His accomplices, Elangovan Balakrishan, Haw Hock Lye and Lee Chee Kuin, are still at large.
The court heard that a fight at Cordon Bleu Karaoke Lounge between Tan's gang and Mr Lim's group took place after one of Mr Lim's employees, Mr Chan Boon Hua, had booed a singer on stage.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
