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An update on the body parts found in the kallang river... especially for Rina to read up and get the updates... Rina>> hey.. I read news seh.. amazing!!!

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extracts from channelnewsasia.com

17 June 2005 @ 1404 hrs
Body parts in Kallang River: Singaporean man arrested
By Yvonne Cheong, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : A Singaporean man of about 50 years old has been arrested in connection with a gruesome murder find at Kallang Riverside Park.

The dismembered body is believed to be that of a 22-year-old Chinese national, Liu Hong Mei, who worked in Singapore as a production operator.

Police said investigations showed that the suspect was the victim's supervisor.

Some green translucent plastic bags were also seized from the suspect's flat at Geylang.

The suspect will be charged in court on Saturday for murder.

The search for the further remains of the body continues.

A cleaner found the lower half of a body in a brown cardboard box at Kallang River on Thursday morning.

It had been severed at the pelvis and knee joints.

Police later found the headless upper half of the body in a red and white box on the opposite bank.

Police are still searching for the missing body parts.

17 June 2005 @ 2008 hrs
Body parts in Kallang River: Victim's factory supervisor arrested
By Yvonne Cheong, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : A 50-year-old Singaporean man has been arrested in connection with a gruesome find at Kallang Riverside Park on Thursday.

He is the factory supervisor of the victim, who has been identified as 22-year-old Chinese national, Liu Hong Mei.

Less than 24 hours after two boxes of body parts were found at the Kallang Riverside Park, police arrested the man in connection with the killing.

The victim had been working in Singapore for the last two years as a production operator at a factory in Serangoon North Avenue 5.

The factory was where her supervisor was first taken for questioning on Thursday night.

Said DSP Adrian Quek of the Singapore Police Force, "Investigations had established that the suspect was the victim's supervisor. The 50-year-old man was brought back for questioning last night and had been arrested this morning. Some green translucent plastic bags were also seized from his flat at Geylang."

Police believe the murder took place on Wednesday, but cannot reveal where or how it took place due to ongoing investigations.

The two boxes, one of which washed ashore, were found along the Kallang River.

Police are ruling out the possibility of finding the remaining body parts there but are instead searching based on fresh leads provided by the suspect.

Wakeboarders have returned to that stretch of the river, a scene quite different from Thursday, after a cleaner discovered the lower half of a body in a brown cardboard box, severed at the pelvis and knee joints.

Police later found the headless upper half of the body in a red and white box on the opposite bank.

Liu's family in China has been contacted, and the suspect will be charged with murder on Saturday.

18 June 2005 @ 1126 hrs
Man charged with gruesome murder of female Chinese national
By Asha Popatlal, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : A man was charged in court with murder in the Kallang body parts case.

Factory supervisor Leong Siew Chor, 50, stood calmly as the charge was read out to him in the Subordinate Courts on Saturday. If found guilty, Leong faces the death penalty.

He is accused of murdering 22-year-old China national Liu Hong Mei in his home in Geylang, between June 15 and 16.

Police arrested Leong on Friday after the victim's naked torso and upper half of her legs were found wrapped in plastic bags inside cardboard boxes on the shores of the Kallang River a day earlier.

Also in court were his wife, son and two daughters. Leong's wife and elder daughter, who were away in Bangkok, cut short their trip and returned to Singapore late on Friday.

His son said they were shocked as Leong was a good father, husband and colleague who would always help his production operators.

Leong is represented by defence lawyer Subash Anandan.

The case will be heard again next Friday.

18 June 2005 @ 2155 hrs
Missing head, legs found in Kallang body-parts murder case
By Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : Police believe they have found the severed head of murder victim Liu Hong Mei.

The case came to light when two boxes containing her body parts - her upper torso and lower half of her body, severed at the pelvis and knee joints - were found along the Kallang River on Thursday.

Police investigations showed that the remaining body parts of the 22-year-old Chinese factory worker were dumped into the Singapore River.

It tracked down the river cleaning company which was about to burn three tonnes worth of river trash it picked up from the Singapore River since Wednesday, but Criminal Investigation Department officers managed to stop the operation at an incineration plant in Tuas in the nick of time.

The trash is usually incinerated straightaway. Fortunately the police managed to intercept this batch of river trash just half an hour before they were to go into the incinerator.

DSP Adrian Quek, Head of Special Investigation Section with the Criminal Investigation Department said: "We had to literally, physically go through three tonnes of garbage, opening up every single plastic bag to make sure it's not what we are looking for. So in the midst of the search, we managed to discover a yellow plastic bag. And when we opened it up, we found something wrapped inside a newspaper and on further examination, we realised it was a human head. The head was partially decomposed but we could still see very prominent features such as the ear and the length of the hair. It appeared to be at least shoulder length hair."

Four hours after locating what was believed to be the victim's head, the police found Liu's lower limbs in a white plastic bag among the trash collected the Singapore River at 8.30pm Saturday evening.

Police will be conducting tests to make sure that the body parts indeed belong to the victim.

Now, the only body parts missing are her feet, which police say may have been disposed elsewhere.

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"i knew it... he can never run away with this!!! u heartless animal!"

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