(SG) cat killer

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Monday March 13, 2006 - The Star

 

Neighbourhood patrol helped send cat killer to jail

 

FOR five months, a group of Bedok residents took turns to patrol their

neighbourhood over seven hours every evening. Their mission – to catch

the man they suspected of torturing and killing stray cats in the

area.

 

One of them, Ngiam Mui Wah, 46, finally caught him in the middle of an

attack and had enough evidence to make criminal charges stick.

 

That ended David Hooi Yin Weng's reign of terror. Last week, the

42-year-old packer was jailed three months for animal abuse.

 

The first attack on the neighbourhood's strays began last June, when a

retired teacher saw a man pick up a kitten from a drain and throttle

it.

 

Recalling her horror, the woman known only as Jeya said: " I saw him

strangle it – he was pressing the cat's neck between his thumb and

fingers. Its eyes were almost going to pop out, and it started to

bleed from its nose and mouth. "

 

Jeya, 58, rushed home and called the police, but he got away with that one.

 

All at once, the bloodied bodies of kittens in the neighbourhood's

void decks and drains started to make sense.

 

They set up a neighbourhood patrol. Ten residents – backed up by young

boys who often cycled in the area came forward. Each team did a

two-week shift from 6pm to about 1am.

 

Last October, a 58-year-old therapist who wanted to be known only as

Bakri stumbled upon an attack in progress in the void deck of Block

545. The man was strangling a kitten and kicking its mother away.

 

Bakri said he shouted at the man, who challenged him in Hokkien to a

fight and dared him to call the police. When he took out his mobile

phone and began dialling, the man dropped the mangled kitten and fled.

 

By this time, the patrol already knew the man's name and that he lived

in Block 544 – but for months, the man continued with the attacks and

managed to give the patrol the slip.

 

Then, Ngiam got her break in November. Perhaps he was complacent that

day – but he merely sauntered away still holding the animal.

 

She called the police and led them to Hooi's 11th-floor flat. There,

they saw all the evidence they needed – the six-week-old kitten,

bleeding from the nose and its eyes bulging from their sockets. – The

Straits Times / Asia News Network

[Guest guest]

This made my day. Anyone have any updates on the woman with the high heels

crushing the kitten's head? I hope she gets her day in court as well.

 

Liz

OAARS

 

yitzeling <yitzeling wrote:

Monday March 13, 2006 - The Star

 

Neighbourhood patrol helped send cat killer to jail

 

FOR five months, a group of Bedok residents took turns to patrol their

neighbourhood over seven hours every evening. Their mission – to catch

the man they suspected of torturing and killing stray cats in the

area.

 

One of them, Ngiam Mui Wah, 46, finally caught him in the middle of an

attack and had enough evidence to make criminal charges stick.

 

That ended David Hooi Yin Weng's reign of terror. Last week, the

42-year-old packer was jailed three months for animal abuse.

 

The first attack on the neighbourhood's strays began last June, when a

retired teacher saw a man pick up a kitten from a drain and throttle

it.

 

Recalling her horror, the woman known only as Jeya said: " I saw him

strangle it – he was pressing the cat's neck between his thumb and

fingers. Its eyes were almost going to pop out, and it started to

bleed from its nose and mouth. "

 

Jeya, 58, rushed home and called the police, but he got away with that one.

 

All at once, the bloodied bodies of kittens in the neighbourhood's

void decks and drains started to make sense.

 

They set up a neighbourhood patrol. Ten residents – backed up by young

boys who often cycled in the area came forward. Each team did a

two-week shift from 6pm to about 1am.

 

Last October, a 58-year-old therapist who wanted to be known only as

Bakri stumbled upon an attack in progress in the void deck of Block

545. The man was strangling a kitten and kicking its mother away.

 

Bakri said he shouted at the man, who challenged him in Hokkien to a

fight and dared him to call the police. When he took out his mobile

phone and began dialling, the man dropped the mangled kitten and fled.

 

By this time, the patrol already knew the man's name and that he lived

in Block 544 – but for months, the man continued with the attacks and

managed to give the patrol the slip.

 

Then, Ngiam got her break in November. Perhaps he was complacent that

day – but he merely sauntered away still holding the animal.

 

She called the police and led them to Hooi's 11th-floor flat. There,

they saw all the evidence they needed – the six-week-old kitten,

bleeding from the nose and its eyes bulging from their sockets. – The

Straits Times / Asia News Network

 

 

 

 

 

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