{"id":35140,"date":"2026-03-10T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35140"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:14:37","slug":"man-48-to-be-charged-with-murdering-elderly-man-in-geylang-red-light-district-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35140","title":{"rendered":"Man, 48, to be charged with murdering elderly man in Geylang red-light district fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A 48-year-old man will be charged with murder on March 10 following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/two-men-hurt-in-incident-in-geylang-red-light-district?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">a fight with an elderly man in a known red-light area in Geylang.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The victim, 70, died in hospital on March 9. The Straits Times understands that he suffered stab wounds to the chest.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The\u00a0police said they were alerted to the fight along Lorong 16 Geylang on March 9 at about 8.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Officers found the elderly man injured at the scene. The 48-year-old was arrested there and taken conscious to another hospital.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations revealed both men knew each other.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fight at Geylang red-light area leaves 2 men injured; 1 stabbed in chest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HDdj8HnrKT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The offence of murder carries the death penalty. Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On March 9, a spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence Force said it took one of the men to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and the other to Raffles Hospital.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Seven murders were reported in 2025.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">One case involved a man who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-58-charged-with-murdering-his-younger-brother-in-boon-lay?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">allegedly killed his younger brother <\/p>\n<p><\/a>in a Boon Lay flat on March 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In another case, a man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/sengkang-murder-man-charged-over-death-of-woman-believed-to-be-his-mother?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">charged over his mother\u2019s death <\/p>\n<p><\/a>in a Sengkang flat on June 1, while a woman was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/yishun-knife-attack-woman-dies-after-noise-dispute-between-neighbours-man-arrested-for-murder?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">killed after a noise dispute <\/p>\n<p><\/a>in Yishun on Sept 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/more-rape-molestation-cases-contribute-to-rise-in-physical-crime-in-2025-shop-theft-incidents-fall?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Physical crime has been rising,<\/p>\n<p><\/a> from 19,969 cases in 2024 to 20,857 in 2025. Knife-related incidents saw a slight increase in 2025 to 137 cases, from 131 cases the year before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-48-to-be-charged-with-murdering-elderly-man-in-geylang-red-light-district-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 48-year-old man will be charged with murder on March 10 following a fight with an elderly man in a known red-light area&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35142,"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-35140","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\/35140","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=35140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}