Woo Bih Li
Judicial Commissioner of Singapore | |
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In office 2 May 2000 – 2 January 2003 | |
Appointed by | S. R. Nathan |
Personal details | |
Born | December 31, 1954 |
Nationality | Singaporean |
Alma mater | National University of Singapore (LLB) |
Woo Bih Li | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Wú Bìlǐ |
Woo Bih Li
Education and career
Woo received his
Previous cases presided by Woo
In March 2003, during Woo Bih Li’s tenure as a judge, he presided the trial of Yen May Woen, a Singaporean hairdresser who was charged with trafficking 30.16g of diamorphine. He found that in contrast to Yen’s testimony that she never know about the drugs in her bag, evidence showed that Yen confessed to the narcotics officers that she was carrying the diamorphine in her bag after they caught her while she alighted a taxi at a Toa Payoh carpark. Yen was found guilty as charged, and she was sentenced to death by Woo after a seven-day trial. Yen lost her appeal and she was hanged on 19 March 2004.[2][3][4]
In July 2003, Woo found a jobless man guilty of murdering a six-month-old baby girl after the defendant,
On 29 September 2003, after presiding the Chai Chee rape-murder trial for five days, Woo found the Malaysian-born defendant Tan Chee Wee guilty of murdering 26-year-old Thabun Pranee and passed the mandatory death sentence on Tan, who was accused of bludgeoning the Thai housewife to death after he robbed and raped the victim. Woo cited in his verdict that Tan's actions were "violent and merciless" and admonished him for having brutally killed Thabun with intent to silence her. Woo's ruling was later upheld by the appellate court, which dismissed Tan's appeal, and Tan was hanged at the age of 30 on 11 June 2004.[9][10][11]
Woo was also the trial judge that heard the 2004 case of
From May 2005 to April 2006, Woo heard the case of
From 2006 to 2009, Woo presided the 94-day murder trial of the
In March 2015, Woo presided the trial of Yap Weng Wah, a 30-year-old Malaysian engineer who faced 76 counts of raping 31 boys between the age of 11 and 14. Yap was diagnosed with hebephilia, a type of sexual preference for early adolescent children between 11 and 14 years of age. Woo noted that Yap demonstrated an aggravating criminal conduct and a high possibility of re-offending, and had an utter lack of remorse for his offences. Therefore, Woo sentenced Yap to 30 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane.[28][29][30][31][32]
References
- ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
- ^ "30g of heroin: Woman to hang". The Straits Times. 21 March 2003.
- ^ "Public Prosecutor v Yen May Woen" (PDF). Singapore Law Watch. 21 March 2003.
- ^ "Singapore hangs woman for drug trafficking". UPI. 19 March 2004.
- ^ "Jobless man gets death for murder of baby girl". The Star. 17 July 2003.
- ^ "去年8月后港组屋 拋女婴入垃圾槽 男子被判死刑". Shin Min Daily (in Chinese). 15 July 2003.
- ^ "Soosainathan s/o Dass Saminathan v Public Prosecutor" (PDF). Singapore Law Watch. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ "Man who abused and killed baby hanged". The Star. 23 May 2004.
- ^ "Man who killed friend's wife to be hanged". The Straits Times. 30 September 2003.
- ^ "Killer to hang after losing appeal". The Straits Times. 19 November 2003.
- ^ "Man who killed mahjong pal's wife is hanged". The Straits Times. 12 June 2004.
- ^ "Judge inspects scene of fatal fall". The Straits Times. 11 March 2004.
- ^ "Found guilty of girlfriend's death". Today. 17 April 2004.
- ^ "Victim was pushed off block". The Straits Times. 17 April 2004.
- ^ "Girlfriend killer to hang after losing his appeal". The Straits Times. 22 September 2004.
- ^ "Silence on hangings a policy that may backfire". The Straits Times. 20 June 2005.
- ^ "Cabby to hang for hacking wife to death". The Straits Times. 27 April 2006.
- ^ "Public Prosecutor v G Krishnasamy Naidu" (PDF). Singapore Law Watch. 26 April 2006.
- ^ "G Krishnasamy Naidu v Public Prosecutor" (PDF). Singapore Law Watch. 21 September 2006.
- ^ "Wife killer's murder conviction set aside". The Straits Times. 22 September 2006.
- ^ "Wife-killer sentenced to life in prison". The Straits Times. 14 October 2006.
- ^ "Brothers to hang for robbery killing of elderly woman". The Straits Times. 8 April 2009.
- ^ "Brothers to hang". TODAY. 8 April 2009.
- ^ "新加坡.入屋抢劫夺命.110刀杀老妇兄弟死刑". Sin Chew Daily. 7 April 2009.
- ^ "Man jailed for 6 years acquitted of murder charges". Yahoo News. 6 July 2011.
- ^ "Convicted killer executed after final plea failed". The Straits Times. 17 April 2015.
- ^ "Man convicted of murder of 69-year-old woman executed". TODAY. 17 April 2015.
- ^ "Engineer who preyed on 31 young boys gets 30 years' jail, 24 strokes of the cane". The Straits Times.
- ^ "3年性侵30男生 工程师监30年24鞭". 东方Online (in Chinese). 20 March 2015.
- ^ "Guilty As Charged: Sex predator Yap Weng Wah preyed on at least 31 young boys". The Straits Times.
- ^ "'Unremorseful' engineer gets 30 years' jail for sex with 31 boys". Today Singapore.
- ^ "Public Prosecutor v Yap Weng Wah" (PDF). Supreme Court judgements. 20 March 2015.
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