![]() The police were contacted, and the investigation team, together with forensic pathologist Chao Tzee Cheng, arrived at the scene. While they were training at the area itself, Reservist Lieutenant Chong Pin Siong and three of his fellow recruits stumbled upon a highly decomposed corpse of a teenage girl at the park's forested vacant area. On 14 October 1989, twelve days after Liang Shan Shan disappeared, a group of National Servicemen were training at Yishun Industrial Park. She was known to be a quiet student at school. Tang Swee Chay, then school principal of Mayflower Secondary School, stated that he and the school teachers inquired Liang's classmates, who all confirmed Liang was last seen leaving school and there were no suspicious persons seen around the school compound and its nearby areas. ![]() There were also no family arguments at home prior to Liang's disappearance. Liang's parents stated that their eldest daughter was normally obedient and had no hobbies, and she only hung out with her female friends outdoors. Liang's father reported her missing, and put up a reward for information related to her whereabouts. Liang and her whole family were all Malaysians who immigrated from the Malaysian state of Sabah to Singapore six years prior, in 1983. Her father Leong Kon Sang ( Chinese: 梁天生 pinyin: Liáng Tiānshēng) was a contractor. According to her background information in several news reports, Liang was the eldest of seven children in the family, and has four brothers (one of them studied at the same school as Liang) and two sisters. Quek contacted her daughter's friends, but none of them saw Liang after the school dismissal and her departure from school at 1pm. After 3pm, Liang's mother, Quek Meng Ghet, still did not see her daughter return home to their Balestier Road flat. On 2 October 1989, 17-year-old Liang Shan Shan, a third-year arts student of Mayflower Secondary School, did not return home at 1.20pm as she usually did. Disappearance and death Missing person report Oh Laye Koh, who was also the suspected killer of a 18-year-old woman found murdered in 1982, later lost his appeal, and he was eventually hanged at Changi Prison on for the two murders. At the end of the re-trial, Oh was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death due to his decision to remain silent which "arose from a consciousness of guilt" and the strong circumstantial evidence pointing to Oh's guilt for the crime. However, Oh refused to go to the stand and chose to remain silent. ![]() Although Oh was acquitted in 1992, the prosecution's appeal resulted in a re-trial and Oh was called to the stand to give his defence. The school bus driver, 34-year-old Oh Laye Koh ( Chinese: 胡立国 pinyin: Hú Lìguó), was arrested as a suspect for Liang's alleged murder, solely based on circumstantial evidence against him. Police investigations revealed that prior to her disappearance and murder, Liang was last seen boarding her school bus and left the school at 1pm on 2 October 1989, the same day she went missing. Despite conducting a post-mortem examination, the cause of Liang's death was uncertain due to the high state of decomposition and disappearance of certain body parts. ![]() Liang was found dead nearly two weeks later at Yishun Industrial Park, where her highly decomposed body was discovered by a group of National Servicemen who were training nearby that area. 1972 – 2 October 1989 Chinese: 梁珊珊 pinyin: Liáng Shānshān) was a 17-year-old Malaysian schoolgirl who was reported missing in Singapore on 2 October 1989. Secondary Three in the Arts stream at Mayflower Secondary School (incomplete due to her death)Ĭhris Peacock ( c. ![]()
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