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Capital
Offences

Chooi Jing Yen is a Lead Counsel under the Supreme Court of Singapore's Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). He also takes on briefed matters. 

Murder Cases

2019

Orchard Towers

Section 300(c)

Tan Sen Yang was involved in a fight at Orchard Towers where he fatally wounded another man with a karambit knife. He had not intended to kill.

2018

Golden Dragon Hotel

Section 300(a)

Ahmed Salim was a migrant worker from Bangladesh who strangled his Indonesian girlfriend in Golden Dragon Hotel, Geylang. He was executed on 28 February 2024.

2016

Gardens by the Bay

Section 300(b)

Leslie Khoo was a Singaporean who strangled his Chinese lover in his BMW while it was stopped at Gardens by the Bay. He later burned her body in Lim Chu Kang.

2016

Circuit Road Flat

Section 300(b)

Boh Soon Ho was a Malaysian who strangled a Chinese lady in his rental flat in Circuit Road. His IQ of 74 was assessed to be among the lowest 4% of the population.

2016

Toa Payoh Child Abuse

Section 300(c)

Ridzuan bin Mega Abdul Rahman was charged with murdering his son following acts of abuse committed by himself and his wife. He was acquitted after trial.

2016

Tuas Cigarette Syndicate

Section 300(c)

Miya Manik was charged with murdering a Bangladeshi migrant worker during a turf war between two rival illegal cigarette syndicates in Tuas. He was acquitted after trial.

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Drug Trafficking

Zuraimy bin Musa was accused of sharing in the common intention of his co-accused, Moad Fadzir Bin Mustaffa, to traffic four bundles of heroin. He was acquitted of drug trafficking and convicted on a lesser charge of abetment of drug possession.

In Jumaat bin Mohamed Sayed & Ors v AG [2025] SGCA 40, five judges of the Court of Appeal upheld the constitutionality of presumptions in the Misuse of Drugs Act placing an evidential burden of proof on the accused.

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