2010 Kallang slashings
After the robbers had robbed Egan, they targeted 41-year-old construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai whom they found riding a bicycle along Kallang Road near a condominium.
[6] As a result, the Kallang robbers' four other companions - Peter Usit Musa, 22; Slyvester Beragok, 26; Landa Surai, 28; and Shahman Milak, 21 - who participated in the robbery of Wang Jiu Sheng, were arrested.
[7] In October 2010, merely five months after the Kallang slashings, one of the minor accomplices – Shahman Milak – was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane for attempted robbery after pleading guilty to the charge.
Peter Usit Musa, Landa Surai, and Slyvester Beragok were brought to trial for the gang robbery of Wang Jiu Sheng.
[8][9] Eventually, the murder charge against Hairee Anak Landak, who was of Iban descent, was reduced to one of armed robbery with hurt.
[7] The defense counsel for the two men sought to object to the prosecution's evidence regarding the first robberies they committed before that of Shanmuganathan, arguing over the pre-judicial effect it might have on their clients' cases.
Justice Choo also rejected Tony's claims of his only intention was to rob the victims, pointing out his active involvement in the robberies had contradicted his oblivion of the seriousness of the assaults by Micheal with the parang, which he said in his own words while reading the verdict, "Having seen three victims lying in their own blood, it lies ill in his mouth to say at trial that he did not know that Shanmuganathan would be slashed."
[23][24][25] Explaining why Micheal Garing received the harsher sentence of death, Justice Choo Han Teck stated in his verdict that Micheal, armed with a parang, had each time violently attacked his victims; he found the prosecution's evidence of the previous robberies relevant to the murder case as the nature of each attack was just as violent as the one that took Shanmuganathan's life.
However, due to the capture of the final culprit and fugitive Donny Meluda on 14 January 2017, the date of the judgement was postponed to 27 February 2017.
[30][31] On 27 February 2017, the Court of Appeal released their verdict, with Justice Chao delivering the judgement: they dismissed both appeals from the defense and the prosecution and upheld both men's respective sentences, effectively bringing 28-year-old Micheal Garing one step closer to the gallows and ultimately led to 38-year-old Tony Imba to be spared from the gallows.
They also took note on how the third accomplice Hairee Landak had difficulty to recall the events that took place on 30 May 2010, and the numerous discrepancies in his police statements and court testimonies (as pointed out by Micheal's lawyer Ramesh Tiwary).
For this, they dismissed the prosecution's appeal, affirming Justice Choo Han Teck's decision to impose the discretionary life sentence on Tony.
Donny, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul Rahman Abdullah while on the run, was remanded in Sarawak for four days before being handed over to the Singaporean police on 18 January 2017.
[37] Eventually, the murder charge against Donny Meluda, who is now also addressed as Abdul Rahman based on his Muslim name and alias, was reduced to armed robbery with hurt.
In his mitigation plea, as presented by his lawyer Siva S. Krishnasamy, Abdul Rahman pleaded for leniency, stating that he had turned over a new leaf and led a reformed life free of crime as a gardener after embracing Islam while on the run, and even preached to a missionary group in West Malaysia.
The prosecutor who was prosecuting Abdul Rahman, DPP Anandan Bala (who also prosecuted Micheal and Tony for murder) however, sought a jail term of at least 33 years and 24 strokes of the cane, arguing that Abdul Rahman's life on the right side of the law while on the run should not be regarded as mitigating, as the seven years he spent in Malaysia eluding justice was aggravating and it prolonged the closure the victims and their families needed and delayed the conclusion of the necessary legal proceedings against the culprits of the Kallang slashings, which the prosecution described as "one of the most violent robberies in recent memory" as they argued and cited the key role played by Abdul Rahman together with his three partners-in-crime on that fateful night of 30 May 2010.
The sentencing of Abdul Rahman has finally brought an end to the court proceedings made against all members of the Kallang slashings.
On 14 March 2019, the family and relatives of Micheal were given an eight-day notice of the upcoming execution and asked to make preparations for the necessary funeral arrangements.
[42] Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed gathered reporters on 20 March 2019, stating the government will save Micheal as "many believe that the death penalty is excessive and hope that Singapore feels the same way too."
[49][50][51][52] A day after his execution, Micheal's body was brought back by flight to his family in Sarawak, and it arrived in Kapit by speedboat.
They said that Micheal's execution will not deter any similar offences in the future or undo his criminal acts, and called for both Singapore and Malaysia to abolish the death penalty.
MHA also stressed that every sovereign state has the right to decide if the death penalty should be retained or abolished, depending on their own circumstances.
There were also donations made to the bereaved family of the deceased victim Shanmuganathan Dillidurai back in his native Indian state of Chennai.
He also went on to represent Singapore in the 2011 Paracanoe World Championships, and pursue a two-year-long national athletic career, and attended the University of Virginia in USA.
[63] A follow-up report from the Straits Times on 25 November 2018, a week after Abdul Rahman's sentencing, revealed that besides pursuing his career, Ang was currently learning new sports like rock climbing and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
[64] The fourth and last survivor of the Kallang slashings, Egan Karrupaiah, managed to have his four severed fingers re-attached in an operation.
The money was used by Egan to pay for his family's expenses, the education fees of his two adult children - a son and a daughter - and to re-build a new house after his old home fell beyond repair.
It first aired on Vasantham (a local Tamil language TV channel in Singapore) as the second episode of the show's fourth season on 9 January 2019, nearly two and a half months before Micheal Anak Garing's execution.
In the episode, lawyer Rajan Supramaniam, who represented Hairee Landak in his trial, appeared on the show to be interviewed and also gave some narration to the events that occurred in Kallang that fateful night.
In the episode, Rajan Supramaniam also revealed some details of Hairee's life prior to the incidents in Kallang, revealing that Hairee came from a very poor family, having siblings to look after, only studied up to Form 5 in secondary school, and sat for but failed in his SPM examinations (similar to the GCE O-levels in Singapore) and being unemployed in Sarawak before he came to Singapore.
