The Handphone Heist
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the robbers beat the driver to death.
unbelievable!!!! -
the driver got bludgeoned ...
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Where's the article
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sorry i cant find the link.
its only every major newspaper.
the robbers have all been arrested. quite a few of them.
his twin brother cant even recognise him. struggled 6 days before succumbing. -
KILL THOSE MURDERERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yup, read about it on TODAY....the driver finally succumb due to multiple injuries....he was already in a coma when warded....and he left in the wee morning....even his daughters/son and wive never got to see him one last chance.
steal just steal why kill??? -
WHat section is the article in?
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Is this article?
Driver attacked in $1.5m phone robbery dies
Stephanie Yap
6 June 2006
Straits Times
English
(c) 2006 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
THE lorry driver who was bludgeoned for his $1.5 million
cellphone cargo died in hospital yesterday morning .
Mr Wan Cheon Kem's injuries were so severe that an eight-hour
operation to remove shards of his shattered skull could not save
him, said family members.
Meanwhile, the last two of the 10 suspects in the case
surrendered to the police yesterday.
Mr Wan, 46, was attacked by robbers on May 30 while he was
driving along Changi Coast Road. He was found slumped on the
dashboard of his parked lorry at Pasir Ris Park.
His mother and siblings, who kept vigil by his side in the past
week at Changi General Hospital, were still in shock when The
Straits Times spoke to them at his wake at Sin Ming Drive last
night.
His brother Richard, 48, said: 'He never smoked, never drank. He
has been working as a driver for more than 10 years with no
problem. Do you think being a driver sounds dangerous?'
Mr Wan, who was single, lived with his mother and a younger
sister in a flat in Pasir Ris. He was described as his mother's
favourite and her constant companion.
Mr Richard Wan said of their mother: 'When she first heard what
happened, she really couldn't take it. She cried a lot.'
At the wake last night, the widow in her 70s broke down at her
son's coffin, and appeared to be whispering her last goodbyes to
him as her four other children gathered protectively around her.
Police say that two men - Nakamuthu Balakrishnan, 48, and Arsan
Krishnasamy Govindarajoo, 38, who allegedly bashed Mr Wan on the
head - may now face murder charges. They were initially charged
with armed robbery before Mr Wan died.
Eight others have been arrested in connection with the robbery.
Of these eight, two - both aged 23 - may also face murder
charges. The last to be arrested, the pair had evaded the law
for almost a week before they turned themselves in when cornered
by police raids yesterday morning.
Of the other half dozen men, five could also face similar
charges pending investigations, while one has been arrested but
not yet charged.
One of the 10 men was Mr Wan's colleague from the freight
forwarding company where he worked.
Ragu Ramajayam, 36, was charged on Friday with conspiracy to
rob. He is also accused of tipping off the robbers earlier that
morning.
Another of Mr Wan's colleagues, a 36-year-old manager with the
company who wanted to be known only as Mr Lim, spoke fondly of
him as a cheerful, hardworking and helpful man, and said that he
had appeared to be on good terms with Ramajayam.
However the case plays out, the dead man's family hopes that the
punishments meted out will have a strong deterrent effect.
Said Mr Richard Wan: 'We want justice, and hope it is a severe
punishment. This will set a precedent.'
[email protected] ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY TRACY SUA AND LEONG
SU-LIN
SHOCKING 'He has been working as a driver for more than 10 years
with no problem. Do you think being a driver sounds dangerous?'
MR RICHARD WAN, 48, brother of heist victim Wan Cheon Kem -
Bastards
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This is a sick world.
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catch the robbers ASAP and put them to jail better!
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For a moment of greed resulted in a loss of a precious life... May justice punish all those involved and had a hand in the heist to eternal life in the prisons... And may justice punish those who bungeoned the poor driver to death to be sentenced by death penalty...
God bless... -
wah hp cargo so valueable one ah?
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Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:
The suspect are all caught already and will be charged with murders and some with amended chargers. Hope they'll be sentenced heavily to deters future cases.
catch the robbers [b]ASAP and put them to jail better![/b]
