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'One-eyed Dragon' to donate organs
By Chong Shin Yen
January 07, 2009
GUNMAN Tan Chor Jin, better known as the 'One-eyed Dragon', has failed in his final bid to avoid the hangman's noose.
Tan, 41, had been sentenced to hang for murder and he had appealed to the President for clemency in August.
His plea was rejected last week, just before New Year's Day.
Tan was represented by criminal lawyers Subhas Anandan and Sunil Sudheesan, who had also handled his court appeal.
Mr Sunil told The New Paper that they received a letter informing them of the news during the last week of December.
'We have not visited him in prison yet but will do so within the next few days,' he said.
The death penalty is usually carried out within two weeks of the receipt of this letter.
Appealing for the President's clemency is a common option for death-row inmates when they fail in their court appeal.
When contacted, Tan's Malaysian wife, Madam Siau Fang Fang, 27, said she was in a meeting and declined to be interviewed.
But she earlier told Shin Min Daily News that although she was extremely disappointed with the outcome, she has accepted that her husband of eight years will be hanged.
Said Madam Siau: 'My only regret is that he (Tan) will not be able to spend Chinese New Year this year.
'He was calm and composed when told that his clemency plea had been rejected. He was prepared for this outcome.'
Madam Siau added that Tan had told her he wished to donate his organs after his death.
He also consoled her and asked her to accept his impending death.
'We often take his two young children to visit him in prison. He knows that they will be well taken care of,' she said.
'He said he will go without regrets.'
Tan also has a mistress who bore him a daughter, 7, and a son, 2.
He was convicted in 2007 of firing six pistol rounds at nightclub boss Lim Hock Soon, 40, at the latter's Serangoon flat on 15 February 2006. Five of them hit Mr Lim, killing him instantly.
Mr Lim's wife, teenage daughter and maid were also in the flat that morning when Tan barged in.
He got Mr Lim to tie up the others first before he tied Mr Lim's hands and shot him.
Tan left the flat with the family's valuables, and directed an accomplice who had driven him there to take him to a canal, where he dumped the gun.
He escaped to Malaysia soon after that.
Ten days later, Tan was tracked down by the Malaysian police and arrested in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room. He was later extradited to Singapore.
Tan, the former headman of a secret society, was known as the One-eyed Dragon because he is blind in the right eye. He discharged his lawyer and defended himself during his trial.
The court threw out his claims of intoxication, self-defence and accidental misfiring and he was sentenced to death in May 2007.
'One-eyed Dragon' to donate organs
By Chong Shin Yen
January 07, 2009
GUNMAN Tan Chor Jin, better known as the 'One-eyed Dragon', has failed in his final bid to avoid the hangman's noose.
Tan, 41, had been sentenced to hang for murder and he had appealed to the President for clemency in August.
His plea was rejected last week, just before New Year's Day.
Tan was represented by criminal lawyers Subhas Anandan and Sunil Sudheesan, who had also handled his court appeal.
Mr Sunil told The New Paper that they received a letter informing them of the news during the last week of December.
'We have not visited him in prison yet but will do so within the next few days,' he said.
The death penalty is usually carried out within two weeks of the receipt of this letter.
Appealing for the President's clemency is a common option for death-row inmates when they fail in their court appeal.
When contacted, Tan's Malaysian wife, Madam Siau Fang Fang, 27, said she was in a meeting and declined to be interviewed.
But she earlier told Shin Min Daily News that although she was extremely disappointed with the outcome, she has accepted that her husband of eight years will be hanged.
Said Madam Siau: 'My only regret is that he (Tan) will not be able to spend Chinese New Year this year.
'He was calm and composed when told that his clemency plea had been rejected. He was prepared for this outcome.'
Madam Siau added that Tan had told her he wished to donate his organs after his death.
He also consoled her and asked her to accept his impending death.
'We often take his two young children to visit him in prison. He knows that they will be well taken care of,' she said.
'He said he will go without regrets.'
Tan also has a mistress who bore him a daughter, 7, and a son, 2.
He was convicted in 2007 of firing six pistol rounds at nightclub boss Lim Hock Soon, 40, at the latter's Serangoon flat on 15 February 2006. Five of them hit Mr Lim, killing him instantly.
Mr Lim's wife, teenage daughter and maid were also in the flat that morning when Tan barged in.
He got Mr Lim to tie up the others first before he tied Mr Lim's hands and shot him.
Tan left the flat with the family's valuables, and directed an accomplice who had driven him there to take him to a canal, where he dumped the gun.
He escaped to Malaysia soon after that.
Ten days later, Tan was tracked down by the Malaysian police and arrested in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room. He was later extradited to Singapore.
Tan, the former headman of a secret society, was known as the One-eyed Dragon because he is blind in the right eye. He discharged his lawyer and defended himself during his trial.
The court threw out his claims of intoxication, self-defence and accidental misfiring and he was sentenced to death in May 2007.
