Subsequently, Chan's defences were not accepted, and he was sentenced to death on 8 May 1993 for heroin trafficking, and he lost his appeal in February of the following year.

Chan was initially scheduled to hang on 25 November 1994, but he obtained a stay of execution after requesting for more time to make a personal petition for clemency.

[2] While in Hong Kong, Daniel Chan was approached by a colleague from his workplace, who assured him there was a way to earn 'pennies from heaven' to seek treatment for his blind son, which was to import drugs.

[3] Per the pre-planned offer, Chan would go to Toronto, Canada from Phuket, Thailand via transit to Singapore to deliver some drugs, in return for HK$80,000.

The customs officers searched Chan after noticing his suspicious behaviour, and they found 16 packets of heroin strapped to his vest.

Both Lee Sing Lit and Leong Wing Tuck were assigned to prosecute Chan for drug trafficking, and the trial judge was Judicial Commissioner Kan Ting Chiu.

Initially, in his police statements, Chan admitted that he was told to import heroin into Canada from Thailand for a payment of HK$80,000.

JC Kan found that per his first statements to the police before he changed his story, Chan knew that he was carrying heroin and did so with the intent to traffic them to Toronto via transit to SIngapore for a payment of HK$80,000.

In spite of her Portuguese citizenship, Macau-born Angel Mou Pui Peng, was the sixth from Hong Kong to be pending execution in Singapore for drug smuggling.

[15] While he was on death row at Changi Prison, Daniel Chan, who lost his appeal, did not file for clemency despite his lawyer Spencer Gwee's advice, due to him feeling that such a move would damage his claims of innocence over the offence he was convicted of.

Nevertheless, Gwee drafted a petition for clemency and submitted it in May 1994 on Chan's behalf, in hopes of obtaining a reprieve and commuting his client's death sentence to life imprisonment.

[33] On 23 February 1995, it was reported that on the advice of the Cabinet, then President Ong Teng Cheong decided to dismiss Daniel Chan's clemency appeal.

Chris Patten, then Governor of British Hong Kong before its handover to China, tried to appeal to the Singaporean government to pardon Chan during his two-day visit in the country in March 1995, but it was declined.