{"id":24959,"date":"2026-01-01T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24959"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:00:38","slug":"6-years-jail-for-80-year-old-who-was-on-the-run-for-33-years-after-fatally-stabbing-debtor-in-1990-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24959","title":{"rendered":"6 years&#8217; jail for 80-year-old who was on the run for 33 years after fatally stabbing debtor in 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\"><span><b>David Sun<\/b><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><b>The Straits Times<\/b><\/span><span><br \/><\/span><span><b>Dec 30, 2025<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">After evading the law for more than three decades, a former loan shark was finally caught and brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Ng Kwang Keng, 80, had been <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/after-33-years-on-the-run-former-loan-shark-now-80-is-convicted-of-stabbing-man\" target=\"_blank\">on the run for 33 years<\/a><\/span> after he fatally stabbed a debtor in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">On Dec 30, he was <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/6-years-jail-for-80-year-old-who-was-on-the-run-for-33-years-after-fatally-stabbing-debtor-in-1990\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to six years&#8217; jail<\/a><\/span> after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means. He was previously charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Ng was previously detained in Johor Bahru for an immigration offence before being deported to Singapore in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">In 1990, the then 47-year-old Ng was a loan shark who was owed $22,000 by a Mr Lim Kim Leng, 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">On Nov 6 that year, Ng drove to Mr Lim&#8217;s residence at Block 14 Taman Ho Swee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">There, he and Mr Lim got into an argument that turned physical, leading to him stabbing Mr Lim in the upper thigh with a knife before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The knife was never found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Mr Lim died on Dec 8 that year after developing renal failure and other complications as a result of the stab wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The court heard that Ng was caught in Malaysia for an immigration offence in 2022. As he is a Singaporean, he was deported back here on Dec 21, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">He was then arrested and charged with murder the next day, having been in remand since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Those convicted of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means can be jailed for life, or for up to 10 years and fined and caned.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-md py-md xl:flex-row xl:items-center\"><span class=\"font-primary text-18 font-semibold leading-1.2 text-black\">Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<p>Join the conversation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/6-years-jail-80-year-old-who-was-run-33-years-after-fatally-stabbing-debtor-1990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David SunThe Straits TimesDec 30, 2025 After evading the law for more than three decades, a former loan shark was finally caught and brought to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}