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Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings
Singapore’s most bizarre murder case drew to a close on 25 November 1988 when Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong were hanged at Changi Prison. After two children were found dead within a fortnight in 1981, the Toa Payoh ‘ritual killings’ proved shocking for the revelations about self-styled spirit medium Adrian Lim’s greed, depravity and cruelty. The confidence trickster persuaded numerous women that he possessed supernatural powers and they paid him with money, valuables and sex. He tortured his victims with primitive electric shock treatments that left one man dead. He was a monster who beat, slapped and kicked his women to make them fear and obey him as he acted out his every lustful perversion. He turned his wife into a prostitute and stripper. He made his mistress lure the children to their deaths.Sentencing all three to hang, the trial judges said of Adrian Lim: “We are repulsed by his abominable and depraved conduct.”
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Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings
Singapore’s most bizarre murder case drew to a close on 25 November 1988 when Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong were hanged at Changi Prison. After two children were found dead within a fortnight in 1981, the Toa Payoh ‘ritual killings’ proved shocking for the revelations about self-styled spirit medium Adrian Lim’s greed, depravity and cruelty. The confidence trickster persuaded numerous women that he possessed supernatural powers and they paid him with money, valuables and sex. He tortured his victims with primitive electric shock treatments that left one man dead. He was a monster who beat, slapped and kicked his women to make them fear and obey him as he acted out his every lustful perversion. He turned his wife into a prostitute and stripper. He made his mistress lure the children to their deaths.Sentencing all three to hang, the trial judges said of Adrian Lim: “We are repulsed by his abominable and depraved conduct.”
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Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings

Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings

by Alan
Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings

Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings

by Alan

Overview

Singapore’s most bizarre murder case drew to a close on 25 November 1988 when Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong were hanged at Changi Prison. After two children were found dead within a fortnight in 1981, the Toa Payoh ‘ritual killings’ proved shocking for the revelations about self-styled spirit medium Adrian Lim’s greed, depravity and cruelty. The confidence trickster persuaded numerous women that he possessed supernatural powers and they paid him with money, valuables and sex. He tortured his victims with primitive electric shock treatments that left one man dead. He was a monster who beat, slapped and kicked his women to make them fear and obey him as he acted out his every lustful perversion. He turned his wife into a prostitute and stripper. He made his mistress lure the children to their deaths.Sentencing all three to hang, the trial judges said of Adrian Lim: “We are repulsed by his abominable and depraved conduct.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814751179
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
Publication date: 08/07/2016
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alan John was born in 1953 and educated at St John’s Institution and the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur before starting as a reporter at The New Straits Times in 1976. He moved to Singapore in 1980 to join The Straits Times and was a copy editor when the Toa Payoh child murders happened. He spent 35 years at The Straits Times, heading various sections before becoming deputy editor, the position he held when he left in 2015.

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Tragic Cautionary Tale 5

Key Players in the Trial 11

Two murders and a trail of blood 17

Adrian's story: Uncle Willie changed my life 26

Tan Mui Choo: Life with Adrian 41

Hoe Kah Hong: Electric shock torture and tragedy 54

Awaiting trial 65

Prosecution: "They intended to kill" 69

Inspector Simon Suppiah: More confessions 75

Christina Chong: A "holy wife" weeps 107

Doctors supplied thousands of pills 117

Adrian in the witness stand: "I am a ladies' man" 129

Tan Mui Choo: "I lived in fear of Adrian" 173

Hoe Kah Hong: "Adrian's just a cockroach now" 200

"Were they mentally ill, or weren't they? 214

The verdict 232

Repentance on death row 240

Author's Note 247

About the Author 248

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