Trio arrested for conspiring to commit murder

SINGAPORE — Three men have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to commit murder — with a meat mincer, a chainsaw, a cleaver and plastic sheets found in the possession of two of them — and will be charged in court today (June 24).

The trio, aged between 32 and 37, were arrested after a man, 28, reported to the police on Sunday night that he had been assaulted at a multi-storey carpark at Pasir Ris Street 71. His two attackers, accompanied by a third man, fled when the victim’s cries for help attracted the attention of passers-by.

The police then launched an investigation to establish the identities of the suspects. It netted one of the suspects, a 37-year-old man, on Monday (June 22) afternoon in an ambush near Balestier Road.

Later that night, officers arrested the other two suspects — both 32-year-old men — at a chalet at Aloha Changi at about 9.50pm.

During the operation, items including a meat mincer, chainsaw, kitchen knives, gas cooker, gas cylinder tank, a tool set, trolley bags, plastic sheets, cable ties, a cleaver, aprons, a chopping board and rubber boots were recovered from the chalet, and seized as case exhibits.

Yesterday morning (June 23), the police also seized a white Mitsubishi multi-purpose vehicle at the basement carpark of Changi Airport Terminal 3, believed to be related to the case. The car was reported as a case of an abandoned vehicle to the police.

The police are still looking for 29-year-old Myanmar national Aung Aung, to assist in investigations into the case. “Preliminary investigations revealed that Aung Aung had left Singapore on the morning of 22 June 2015,” the police said in a media release last night.

The three suspects will be in court at 9am today and charged with the offence of abetment by conspiracy to commit murder.

Under the Penal Code, a person who abets in an offence punishable by death or life imprisonment can be jailed up to seven years and fined, if the offence was not eventually committed.

If an offence is committed after the abetment, and a person was hurt, the abettor can be jailed up to 14 years, and shall also be liable to fine.