They would promise to ferry people from Trinidad to Venezuela but en route he would rob his victims at gunpoint, kill them and dump them into the sea.
He had successfully beaten a charge of breaking and entering which nearly resulted in his deportation before he was finally executed after losing his third case - for the murder of his niece.
He was held in awe and dread by most of the population and was frequently seen strolling grandly about Port of Spain in the early 1950s wearing bright, stylish clothes.
Mothers, nanis, and ajees would warn their children: "Behave yourself, man, or Boysie goyn get, allyuh!
"[5] Boysie Singh died in Port of Spain by being hanged in 1957 for the murder of a dancer, Hattie Werk.