| Date | 15 June 2005 |
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| Location | Kallang River, Singapore |
| Motive | to avoid being recognised by lover as culprit who stole her ATM, and to conceal his affair for fear of losing respect of family, reputation and job |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Suspects | • Leong Siew Chor, 50
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Liu Hong Mei | |
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刘红梅 | |
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| Born | Liu Hongmei 14 September 1982 |
| Died | 15 June 2005 (aged 22) |
| Cause of death | Strangulation |
| Resting place | An unspecified cemetery in China |
| Nationality | Chinese (Singaporean PR) |
| Education | Senior middle school level |
| Occupation | Production operator |
| Employer | Agere Systems Singapore |
| Known for | Murder victim |
| Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) |
The Kallang River body parts murder was a murder and dismemberment case that occurred in Singapore. The case earned its name due to the body parts of the victim, 22-year-old Liu Hong Mei (Chinese: 刘红梅; pinyin: Líu Hóngmeí), being found disposed in Kallang River. In this case, Liu's 50-year-old supervisor, Leong Siew Chor, used a towel to strangle her to death, and he also severed her body into seven pieces - mainly her head, upper torso, lower torso, legs and feet - before disposing them in Kallang River and other locations in Singapore.
Leong, a married man with three adult children, was revealed to have engaged in an illicit love affair with Liu for a year before murdering her on 15 June 2005, as a result of wanting to cover up the affair and theft of Liu's credit cards and money from her bank account. He was arrested three days after the murder, and the police also managed to locate five of her body parts. Liu's severed feet were never found.
Leong was eventually found guilty of Liu's murder and sentenced to death by the High Court. After failing to receive an acquittal of the murder charge and clemency from the Court of Appeal and the President of Singapore respectively, Leong was executed in November 2007. This case became one of the most notorious murder cases to have occurred in Singapore, as well as earning its recognition as one of the famous cases taken by criminal lawyer Subhas Anandan, who represented Leong in his trial and recorded the case in his memoir.[1][2]
- ^ "Guilty As Charged: Leong Siew Chor killed lover and cut up her body to cover up theft of ATM card". Straits Times. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Anandan, Subhas (2015). The Best I Could. Marshall Cavendish Editions. ISBN 978-981-4677-81-3.