Cold Blooded Murders
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Authors: Alex Josey
COLD BLOODED MURDERS
ALEX JOSEY
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The Trials of Sunny Ang first published in
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Pulau Senang—The Experiment That Failed first published in 1980 by Times Books
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Contents
The Trial: Case For The
Prosecution
Pulau Senang-The Experiment that
Failed
Gangsters And Secret Societies
This is a true story of a young man
who planned what he thought was the perfect crime.
He might have succeeded had not his
impatience to collect the insurance on the girl he murdered arouse the
suspicions of the police.
Highly intelligent, he realized this might
happen: he did not care. He believed this was a risk he could well afford to
take. Having carried out a faultless murder, in effect he challenged the state
prosecutor to a deadly battle of wits. That was his fatal mistake.
—Alex Josey
Pulau Dua or the Sisters Islands
Pulau Dua are two little islands
separated by a straits, about 700 feet apart. The straits vary in depth between
30 and 35 feet.
“The islands are about four miles from
Jardine Steps in Singapore Harbour and they are among the southernmost islands
of the Southern Islands, beyond which stretches the open seas, with Indonesia
in the distance.
... the waters are extremely hazardous. They
are dangerous because of the remarkable eddies and swirls which occur there,
and the speed of the current around the islands varies with the speed of the
tides from half a knot to some four knots.”
—Crown Counsel
“Members of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict?”
“Yes.”
“What is your verdict?”
“Guilty.”
“Is that unanimous or by a majority?”
“It is unanimous.”
Justice Buttrose addressed the young man in
the dock, “Ang, the jury have by a unanimous verdict found you guilty of this
crime of murder, and I accordingly convict you.” The judge turned to counsel.
“Do either of you wish to address me?”
“No, my Lord.”
Justice Buttrose said, “Ang you have been
convicted by the unanimous verdict of the jury of a terrible crime. You killed
this young girl Jenny, whose only fault apparently was that she had the
misfortune to fall in love with you, and to give you everything she possessed:
her all. You killed her for personal gain. It is a crime cunningly contrived to
give the appearance of an accident, and it was carried out with consummate
coolness and nerve. At long last the time has come for you to pay the penalty
for your dreadful deed.”
Ang showed no emotion. The faint smile,
which had been on his thin lips through most of the 13 days’ trial, was still
there as the judge sentenced him to death. Outside the courtroom, his
law-student sister, Juliet Ang, broke down and cried.
***
August 1963 was a month of intense political
activity in the tropical island-state of Singapore. Strong feeling had also been
aroused by the discovery, by workmen digging foundations, of human bones,
further proof of Japanese military atrocities during the Second World War. Most
of Singapore’s population of some two million are of Chinese origin: they
suffered considerably during the Japanese occupation. Politically, Singapore
(lying at the foot of the Malay Peninsula, an island of some 225 square miles,
most of the equatorial swamps and jungle turned into modern roads, and
industrial sites and commercial centres) was fast moving into complete
independence through merger with Malaya and the creation of Malaysia. This
experiment in multiracialism regrettably failed when Singapore was separated
from Malaysia almost exactly two years later.
In August 1963, Singapore papers were full
of the sensational case in England involving Christine Keeler and a British
Cabinet Minister. In Moscow, leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union
drank champagne after signing the test-ban treaty. Sir Alec Home, the British
Prime Minister, said that the world had become a safer place.