It was revealed in 2021 that Choo was one of the defence lawyers representing Adrian Lim, the infamous Toa Payoh child killer who was executed in 1988 for charges of murdering a girl and boy as ritual sacrifices.
[8] Choo Han Teck, who then became Judicial Commissioner, presided the trial of Teo Kim Hong, a prostitute charged with stabbing her co-worker Ching Bee Ing to death in August 1995.
After hearing the case for five days in January 1996, Choo found that Teo had intentionally stabbed Ching seven times, such that four of these injuries penetrated her heart and liver and sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature.
[9][10][11] Choo heard the case of Abdul Nasir Amer Hamsah, who was accused of murdering a Japanese tourist named Fujii Isae during a robbery.
In the aftermath, Abdul Nasir received an additional life sentence with caning of 12 strokes in a separate trial for an unrelated crime of kidnapping two police officers for ransom.
[13] 38-year-old S Nagarajan Kuppusamy, the man who directly killed Jaranjeet, was charged with murder and stood trial before Judicial Commissioner Choo Han Teck in October 1998.
[17][18] Nagarajan's accomplice, 38-year-old Saminathan Subramaniam was found guilty of a lesser offence of causing hurt with a dangerous weapon and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane in a separate trial.
In fact, there was a fourth person named Govindasamy Ravichandran, who was roped in to kill Maniam but he declined to continue proceeding with the plan and left the group.
[21][22] In December 2001, a 19-year-old Indonesian maid named Muawanatul Chasanah was found dead in her employer's flat after she endured starvation and physical abuse, which caused her to die from peritonitis due to a ruptured stomach.
JC Choo Han Teck, who heard the case in July 2002, noted during the sentencing phase that some of the old scars and injuries found on Chasanah were not attributed to the cruelty of her employer.
Choo then sentenced Ng Hua Chye to a total of 18 years and six months' imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane, which was reported to be the longest penalty ever given to a convicted maid abuser in Singapore back then.
[23][24] On 31 May 2001, 17-year-old national football player Sulaiman bin Hashim and his two friends were attacked by a group of eight youths from gang 369, known as Salakau, as they were walking along South Bridge Road, Clarke Quay.
In January 2013, the Singapore government changed its laws to remove the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers who merely acted as couriers, or had mental illnesses at the time of their offences.
[31][32] In January 2013, the Singapore government changed its laws to remove the mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers who merely acted as couriers, or had mental illnesses at the time of their offences.
The other two members Hairee Landak and Donny Meluda were each sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for multiple charges of armed robbery with hurt in 2013 and 2018 respectively.
Justice Choo, the trial judge who heard the cases of the pair, found that both men had intentionally smothered Muhammad to death in order to steal his money after they lost their cash to him in a game of cards.
[39] On 17 January 2017, Justice Choo Han Teck found 57-year-old Chia Kee Chen guilty of murder in the kidnapping and fatal assault of 37-year-old Dexmon Chua Yizhi, who was his wife's ex-lover.
He stated that Chia kidnapped Chua out of revenge for the affair and he had grievously assaulted the man with the help of his Indonesian friend Febri Irwansyah Djatmiko inside their borrowed van on that fateful day of 28 December 2013.
Febri fled Singapore and was never caught, while the killers' hired driver Chua Leong Aik was sent to jail for five years for helping to kidnap and assault the victim.