On 1 December 1990, at Singapore's Tanjong Katong Road, a 20-year-old Malaysian woman named Wong Mee Hiong (王美香 Wáng Meǐxiāng) was stabbed to death inside her rented house and her body was wrapped in a blanket before being hidden in a storeroom.
The victim was a 20-year-old Perak-born Malaysian named Wong Mee Hiong, who stayed together with her fiancé and was finding employment in Singapore at the time she died.
[5] Dr Clarence Tan, the forensic pathologist, certified that two of these knife wounds were fatal, as they both penetrated her chest and gone through her lungs.
[6][7][8] The police investigated her death as murder, and during which, it was discovered that Wong's seven gold items, worth around SGD$1,100, were missing from the flat.
[19][20] For the charge of murdering Wong Mee Hiong, Yap Biew Hian stood trial at the High Court on 8 March 1993.
[21] Yap also described how he used his bed sheet to wrap the body and concealed it in the storeroom before he escaped to Malaysia, but not before pawning Wong's gold items at Chinatown.