Yishun triple murders

The Yishun triple murders case was a mass stabbing incident of three violent murders of three women in a rented flat in Yishun, Singapore in 2008. The perpetrator, Wang Zhijian, was the boyfriend of one of the two adult women living in the flat, and Wang, together with the victims, were from mainland China. Wang was alleged to have murdered both his girlfriend and her child, and tried to kill the other two tenants – also a mother-daughter pair – who lived in the next room. The daughter survived the attack but her mother was killed.

Wang faced three capital charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder (the attempted murder charge was stood down by the prosecution). He was convicted of one murder charge and two reduced culpable homicide charges and sentenced to death by the High Court of Singapore. Wang appealed against his death sentence but the Court of Appeal of Singapore dismissed Wang's appeal and convicted him of two more charges of murder after the simultaneous hearing of the prosecution's appeal against Wang's two culpable homicide charges. Provided by Wikipedia