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SINGAPORE – Two people who allegedly murdered four-year-old Megan Khung Yu Wai will be detained again behind bars after they appeared in district court on Thursday (September 3).
Wong Shi Xiang, 33, and Megan’s mother, Foo Li Ping, 24, who are charged with the girl’s murder, will return to court on September 30.
They were not offered bail.
The couple allegedly killed Megan in an apartment in the Suites @ Guillemard condominium on Lim Ah Woo Road in February this year.
They are said to have worked with a second woman, Nouvelle Chua Ruoshi, 30, to dispose of Megan’s body by burning it in a metal barrel at the Paya Ubi Industrial Park on Ubi Avenue 1 in May.
Chua, who is not facing murder charges, was offered a $ 50,000 bond last month.
Defense attorney Thangavelu of Trident Law Corporation had previously opposed the prosecution’s request that Chua remain in pre-trial detention.
Mr. Thangavelu had also proposed that she be treated separately from the other two alleged offenders, as she does not face a murder charge.
He had previously told the court that Chua’s case could, in fact, be heard in the State Courts, not the Supreme Court, where murder trials are held.
Chua’s case was postponed until October 6.
Wong had previously appeared in court to face charges unrelated to the murder case.
He is charged with six drug-related offenses, including methamphetamine trafficking and use in 2018.
It is said that Wong was in possession of two samurai swords in an apartment on Geylang East Avenue 1 on November 22 of that year.
In addition, he is accused of assaulting a man in the same unit two days later.
If convicted of illegally disposing of a human corpse, the offender can be imprisoned for up to seven years.
Those convicted of murder face the death penalty or life imprisonment with flogging.
Foo cannot be spanked because she is female.
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