Taken from The Electric Newpaper:
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,97284,00.html?He showed them the way to use screwdriver November 12, 2005 HE was cheating on his wife, but he was also jealous of his mistress.
And when his mistress wanted to break up about 1 1/2 years into their affair, he turned vengeful.
He wanted her killed, but her death was still not enough to satisfy his thirst for vengeance.
Aquarium shop assistant Chua Beng Hin wanted some form of symbolic revenge.
Something to make up for spending a lot of money on Miss Loh Say Lee, 30.
Something to make up for his jealous rage over her dumping him for another man.
He wanted to destroy her prized assets - her eyes, which Miss Loh regarded as beautiful.
In short, he wanted an eye for an eye.
So Chua, 42, recruited three teenagers to kill her for $500.
Chua's unusual request: Before killing her, dig out one of her eyes with a screwdriver.
The father of three then showed them how to do it.
He also wanted a man whom he suspected to be her new boyfriend killed as well. He also demonstrated to the boys how to stab him with a fruit knife.
The teens later discussed how they would attack Miss Loh. One of them would grab her neck while another held down her hands.
The third teen would then gouge out her eye with a screwdriver before killing her.
Chua gave them her description, working hours, work place and home address. The boys were to ambush her outside her home in Block 513, Woodlands Drive 14.
Chua even gave them medical plasters to cover the lenses of the security cameras in the lifts.
But the plan was botched.
CAUGHT BY POLICE PATROL
Two of the teens were arrested by police on patrol while waiting for her at her void deck.
School dropouts Tan Hock Meng, 16, and his 15-year-old friend were carrying a bicycle chain and a 22cm fruit knife.
Chua and another 15-year-old, a Normal stream student, were arrested later.
Yesterday, all four pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Miss Loh before district judge Aedit Abdullah.
Chua became enraged when Miss Loh ended their relationship in July.
'He was reluctant to accept the break-up,' said Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee.
'He felt he had spent a lot of money on her and he was also jealous that she had found someone new.'
But Chua didn't give up.
He wanted her to celebrate his birthday with him on 7 Aug. But she refused.
When he called her again, she hung up on him.
That night, he set his devilish plan into motion.
He approached one of the 15-year-old boys, a regular customer at his shop.
The boy agreed to kill the woman and roped in his two friends.
But they never went to her block and lied to Chua the next day that a man had escorted her home. An angry Chua asked them to kill the man.
At 7pm, the three teens armed themselves and waited for the woman near her home.
They did nothing when they saw her coming home alone an hour later and told Chua they had not seen her.
On 11 Aug, Chua brought two of the teens to the 4th floor carpark of Vista Point, saying he had seen Miss Loh's male friend visiting her at her workplace.
Chua wanted them to lure the man to the carpark and stab him.
That night, two of the teens waited at Miss Loh's void deck for their targets. Two hours later, they were arrested.
Chua and the teens will be sentenced next Thursday.
Anyone found guilty of abetting a murder, even if the act was not carried out, can be jailed for up to seven years and fined.
Chua is being represented by Mr Kertar Singh.
