Leong Siew Chor, a factory supervisor, stole his young lover Liu Hong Mei’s ATM card and used it to withdraw money from her account. He then killed her and dismembered her body into seven parts, fearful that she would identify him.
This case became one of the most well-known murder cases in Singapore, as well as one of the most famous cases handled by criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, who represented Leong in his trial and wrote a memoir about the case.
Inside Crime Scene, a Singaporean crime show re-enacted the Kallang body parts murder case in 2022 and aired the adaptation as its third episode.
Liu Hong Mei Kallang River Murder Update
Leong, a family man with three adult children, was revealed to have had an illicit love affair with Liu Hong Mei for a year before planning and carrying out her murder on June 15, 2005, in order to cover up the affair and the theft of Liu’s credit cards and bank account.
Three days after her murder, he was apprehended, and police were able to recover five of her body parts. Liu’s severed feet, on the other hand, were never discovered.
He returned her to his flat in Block 114, Geylang Lorong 3, on June 15 and strangled her. He cut her into seven pieces with a chopper and a rubber mallet: two feet; two legs just above the knee; lower torso; upper torso; and head.
On June 16, 2005, at 9:15 a.m., cleaner Murugan Kaniapan was going about his daily rounds when he came across a waterlogged brown cardboard box enclosed with masking tape on the banks of the Kallang River, a popular hangout for watersports enthusiasts.
What Happened To Liu Hong Mei?
Leong Siew Chor, Liu Hong Mei’s 50-year-old supervisor, strangled her to death with a towel and butchered her body into seven pieces – primarily her head, upper torso, lower torso, legs, and feet – before disposing of them in Kallang River and other Singapore locations.
Leong Siew Chor, 50, was a supervisor at Agere Systems Singapore, a circuit board organization in Serangoon North, and was married with three children. Ms. Liu Hong Mei, a Chinese woman of 22, worked as a production operator for Leong.
They had been lovers for over a year. But that didn’t stop Leong from murdering Ms. Liu in order to keep the police from discovering that he had stolen her ATM card and used it to withdraw $2,000 from her bank account.
Who Killed Liu Hong Mei?
Liu Hong Mei was brutally killed by her lover Leong Siew Chor.
After being charged with murder, Leong was returned to his flat in Lorong 3, Geylang, on June 18, 2005. Many reporters rushed to get a glimpse of the gruesome murderer who terrorized Singapore with the gruesome murder of Liu Hong Mei.
Leong was hanged in Changi Prison at dawn on November 30, 2007. He was 52 at the time.