Arrest and Investigation
A patrol car spotted the abandoned taxi and found Lee's body with 15 cut and stab wounds in his upper body, including a fatal double stab wound in the neck. His service revolver was missing. The taxi driver, Chew Theng Hin, was also found dead with a stab wound in the abdomen.
The three men were quickly arrested with the help of an alert detective, Constable Siew Man Seng, who happened to be at the scene and spotted two of them behaving suspiciously soon after the murders. They were subsequently tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death for the murder of Lee Kim Lai and the taxi driver, Chew Theng Hin.
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