Oriental Hotel murder

Oriental Hotel murder
Date6 June 1994; 30 years ago (1994-06-06)
LocationOriental Hotel
Participants
  • Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah, 25 years old
  • Abdul Rahman bin Arshad, 32 years old

On 6 June 1994, two Japanese tourists were robbed and attacked by two men in their shared room in the Oriental Hotel in Singapore. One of them was brutally assaulted and died, while the other survived. The case, known as the Oriental Hotel murder, was classified as murder by the police. The perpetrators were eventually caught 2 years later and they were subsequently sentenced to serve lengthy jail terms with caning for their part in the robbery and assault of the two tourists, as well as for unrelated offences committed before their arrests.