[1] Two of the police officers dispatched at the scene, Corporal Ong Chee Keong and Sergeant Koh Chong Kok, were told by passers-by that the suspect had run off to one of the flats around the area.
[13] Both the suspect and Wang were also cleaners and colleagues working under the same company,[14] and rented a room at one of the flats in that area itself, but their relationship was reportedly not good as they often argued with each other.
[15] The next day, on 5 February 2002, the suspect, a 34-year-old Chinese national named Jin Yugang, was officially charged with murder, and he was also remanded without bail while undergoing police investigations and pending trial.
Jin was represented by Tan Teow Yeow while the prosecution was led by Eddy Tham, and the trial was presided by Justice Tay Yong Kwang of the High Court.
[19] The trial court was told that at their rented flat in Rangoon Road, both Jin and the victim Wang Hong, as well as their compatriots from China, were having a drinks session on the night of 3 February 2002, hours before the murder happened at midnight.
He found that there was no dispute that Jin had committed murder, since he had intentionally inflicted knife wounds that were sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death.
[27][28] The appellate judges also reportedly commented that there was no excuse for Jin to commit such a cold-blooded and brutal murder, even if he may have been affected by his alcohol intoxication.
[34] In the aftermath of Jin's trial, Singaporean crime show Crimewatch re-enacted the case of Wang Hong's murder and aired it on television in June 2003.