The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore that happened between 2010 and 2019. They are arranged in chronological order.
2010 14 February 2010: Lee Heng Wong allegedly murdered Xi Wei Feng, a bouncer in De Basement Live Disco in Geylang Road, in which he fled afterwards. Lee would not be captured until 12 years later as a fugitive; he surrendered to the Malaysian police on October 11, 2022. He was taken back to Singapore two days later and arrested the same day. On October 18, 2024, Lee was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment by the High Court after he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide, following further investigations and assessment. 29 May 2010: Four Malaysians committed a series of armed robberies which resulted in three injuries and one death. The robbers, Tony Anak Imba, Hairee Landak and Michael Garing, were arrested after the crime, while Donny Meluda who fled to Malaysia afterwards, was later arrested in 2017. Garing and Tony were found guilty on murder with the former receiving a death penalty and the latter receiving life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane; Garing unsuccessfully appealed against their sentencing and the Court of Appeal upheld their verdict. Garing was hanged on 22 March 2019 following another unsuccessful clemency appeal from then-President Halimah Yacob. Hairee and Donny were each sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane for multiple charges of armed robbery with hurt in 2013 and 2018 respectively. 6 July 2010: Abdul Kahar Othman, who was previously released in 2005 after serving ten years of preventive detention and had repeated records on entering prison since the age of 18, was re-arrested for drug trafficking 66.77 grams of diamorphine. Othman was charged and convicted in 2013 and sentenced to death in 2015 after the High Court deemed that he was not a courier, making him ineligible for the alternative penalty of life imprisonment. While on death row, Othman unsuccessfully made multiple appeals for seven years; ultimately, he was hanged on 30 March 2022. His execution was the first to be conducted in Singapore since 2019, and also the first execution to be authorised during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. 22 September 2010: Soh Wee Kian stabbed Hoe Hong Lin to death and four months prior, was also involved in an assault of How Poh Ling and two other incidents against women. Soh was initially charged with murder but due to an adjustment disorder with a depressed mood, he was found guilty of both culpable homicide and inflicting grievous hurt and was sentenced to life imprisonment on 22 August 2013; no caning was given due to his psychiatric conditions. 30 October 2010: Darren Ng, a Republic Polytechnic student, was killed by a 12-member group of gang members at Downtown East. These members were arrested and charge for rioting and were given jail sentences ranging between three and 12 years and between three and 12 strokes of the cane for their respective crimes and other unrelated minor offences.
2011 18 January 2011: Malaysian Datchinamurthy Kataiah and his accomplice Christeen Jayamany were arrested at the Woodlands Checkpoint by the Singapore authorities for allegedly trafficking over 44.96g of heroin while crossing the border. Jayamany was a certified courier and sentenced to life imprisonment on 8 May 2015. Datchinamurthy, who failed his validiation as a courier, was given a death penalty. He was originally scheduled to be executed on 29 April 2022 following unsuccessful appeals, however Datchinamurthy obtained a stay of execution to allow him to continue to live while his current lawsuit was pending in the court. Datchinamurthy was eventually hanged on 25 September 2025 following the dismissal of his final clemency petition. 26 May 2011: Celine Ng allegedly went missing on the date of her birthday after telling her flatmate that she wanted to go on a short overseas trip; she was reported missing two days after losing contact. Ng's family and friends, and the police, attempted to search for her, and her skeleton was later discovered 41 days after her disappearance, but the cause of death remained unknown. Police initially classified the case as a murder but later reduced it to manslaughter. Her flatmate Ang Soo Hoon, confessed to strangling Ng to death after failing to help Ng commit suicide, and was arrested. Ang was charged with a 12.5-year imprisonment in July 2015 to one charge of manslaughter, one charge of misappropriating Ng's money and one charge of providing false information to the police. 28 December 2011: In a high-profile case involving an online vice syndicate, 48 men, most of which were civil servants, were charged for having sex with an underage prostitute. An eight-hour raid was held. Subsequent investigations revealed the online vice ring lead, Tang Boon Thiew, acquired at least S$370,000 from sexual services provided by the prostitutes he hired, including a 17-year-old minor from China. On 11 January 2013, Tang was sentenced to 58 months' imprisonment and a S$90,000 fine for 20 vice-related charges.
2012 30–31 March 2012: Gabriel Lee Haw Ling killed his fiancée Elsie Lie Lek Chee in their rented flat after believing that Lie was possessed by evil spirits. The charge was reduced to culpable homicide not amounting to murder after he was diagnosed to be suffering from a brief psychotic disorder at the time of incident, and on 24 February 2017 he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. 13 April 2012: Nazeri Lajim was arrested for trafficking 33.89g of diamorphine at the Far East Shopping Centre, along with Dominic Martin Fernandez, who was his accomplice, was caught shortly after separation. A trial lasted for two years and on 8 August 2017, both were convicted of drug trafficking. Dominic was a certified courier and was sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane, while Nazeri was given the death penalty, in which he was hanged on 22 July 2022. Dominic’s life sentence, which was backdated to the date of his arrest, has the possibility of parole after 20 years. 27 May 2012: Sujay Solomon Sutherson, who had a history of paranoid schizophrenia, killed his mother Mallika Jesudasan by stabbing. Unsuccessfully hiding the body by stuffing it into a suitcase, the body was discovered by Sujay's siblings and uncle hours after the murder who called the police. Sujay was charged to culpable homicide and in August 2015, following a five-day trial, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Seven years into imprisonment, Sujay died of illness on 8 September 2022.
2013 15 June 2013: A group of nine gang members attacked Wilson Siau with parangs outside Cathay Cineleisure Orchard, which was witnessed by several passers-by at the time of attack. Nine men were arrested for rioting and involvement of an unlawful assembly, each given a jail sentence and strokes of the cane. 10 July 2013: Former police officer Iskandar bin Rahmat killed Tan Boon Sin and his son Chee Hong, in an ensuing robbery citing financial difficulties and bankruptcy which could affect his job. Boon Sin's body was discovered in his home at Hillside Drive, in Kovan, while Chee Heong's body was dragged under a car for 1 km from the home before being dislodged outside Kovan MRT station. Iskandar fled to Malaysia shortly, he was arrested in Johor Bahru two days later, extradited back to Singapore and charged with murder three days after arrest. On 4 December 2015, following unsuccessful claims of self-defence and that the killings was a result of a robbery gone wrong, Iskandar was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. According to the prosecution, the injuries on the victims were inflicted on vital parts of the body and the force used were too excessive for self-defence, which clearly showed that Iskandar had intended to cause death and silence the victims. He lodged an appeal in 2017, which was unsuccessful, and was denied clemency in 2019. On 5 February 2025, Iskandar was hanged at 6.00 a.m. after all the appeals to court including clemency to president Tharman Shanmugaratnam were dismissed. 6 September 2013: Malaysian Mogan Valo was arrested prior to crossing Tuas Checkpoint for possessing 1.0179 kg of marijuana. Mogan confessed that he was asked by a man named "India" (actual name Tangaraju Suppiah) to deliver the drugs for trafficking. Mogan pleaded guilty to a non-capital charge of trafficking 499.99g of marijuana and was sentenced to 23 years' imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane. Tangaraju was arrested in March 2014 while Mogan was in remand for a drug consumption offence and following with sufficient evidence on his coordination of drug trafficking and orchestrated Mogan for abetting the trafficking of marijuana, was given a death penalty on 9 October 2018. Tangaraju was executed on 26 April 2023. 24 October 2013: Mohamad Yazid Md Yusof and Kalwant Singh Jogindar Singh were both arrested by the Central Narcotics Bureau at a carpark in Woodlands Drive upon discovery of diamorphine inside Yazid's motorcycle and Kalwant's possession. Yazid's future confession led to a third arrest of Norasharee Gous, who ordered the smuggling and trafficking, in July 2015. Yazid was a certified courier and was given life imprisonment with 15 strokes of the cane; Norasharee and Kalwant were issued death penalties and were both hanged on 7 July 2022. 20 November 2013: Zulkarnain bin Kemat was arrested for drug trafficking, along with his accomplices, Mohammad Rizwan bin Akbar Husain and Saminathan Selvaraju, at Spooner Road. On 12 March 2018, all three of them were convicted of the said offence. But Zulkarnain bin Kemat was sentenced to life imprisonment without caning (as he was over 50 years of age at the time of the sentencing phase) because he acted as a courier and received a certificate of substantive assistance from the prosecution. His accomplices, Mohammad Rizwan bin Akbar Husain and Saminathan Selvaraju, on the other hand, were awarded the mandatory death sentence and later hanged on 27 November 2025. 8 December 2013: Sakthivel Kumaravelu, a construction worker, was killed in a traffic accident at Little India, which initiated a major-scale riot for the first time since 1969. Over 20 men from Bangladesh and India were charged for their respective roles in the riot and sentenced to jail terms; three of them were also each sentenced to three strokes of the cane. The riot led to the government passing a law, Liquor Control (Supply and Consumption) Act 2015 to regulate the supply and consumption of liquor at public places, following investigations that many of the accused were drunk at the time. The riot further sparked national headlines and public criticism over various social issues in Singapore, including ongoing ethnic tensions, rising income inequality, Singapore's heavy reliance on foreign labour, as well as the working conditions of migrant workers. 9 December 2013: P Mageswaran, an ex-convict who had a long criminal record of rape, theft and robbery crimes since 1991 and recently released from prison after serving a six-year jail term with caning of 24 strokes for previous serial robberies, committed another robbery to Kanne Lactmy in which he murdered an elderly in the process and stole jewelry amounting to RM26,300, which was pawned to pay off his flat's installment. Mageswaran was arrested eight days later; he was tried and convicted in May 2017, and later on 21 July, was given an 18-years' imprisonment following his criminal record and poor intelligence but could not be caned due to his age. In 2019, Mageswaran and his prosecutor made an appeal on changing his sentence but neither passed, therefore upholding his 18-year sentence.