Adrian Lim, wife and mistress hanged

Friday, 25th November 1988

Cult killer Adrian Lim, his wife, Tan Mui Choo, and mistress, Hoe Kah Hong, were hanged at Changi prison today. They were convicted in 1983 for the cruel sacrificial murder of two children in 1981. The trial was one of the longest murder trial in Singapore, lasting for about eight weeks, and it unveiled disturbing accounts of rites and rituals that were both cruel and perverse.

In 1981, the murders of two young children, Agnes Ng Siew Heok and Ghazali bin Marzuki, led to investigations that resulted in the capture of Singapore’s most notorious murderers to date: Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo, and his mistress Hoe Kah Hong.

The murders had opened a complex case involving rituals of human sacrifice, drinking of human blood, as well as sexual perversion. During the days of the trial, crowds of people gathered outside the courts, and the proceedings were closely monitored and reported by the media.

The trial turned out to be the second-longest murder trial in Singapore, lasting as it did for about eight weeks, and unveiling disturbing accounts of rites and rituals that were both cruel and perverse.

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