Murder of Lai Ying Xin

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On 11 September 2008, in Kulai, Johor, Malaysia, 16-year-old schoolgirl and salesgirl Lai Ying Xin (Chinese: 赖映兴) was kidnapped and murdered by a group of four youths, who extorted a ransom from her family in spite of her death. The case became known as the "Kulai school beauty hostage-murder" (古来校花撕票案) in Malaysian Chinese newspapers, which extensively covered the case. The four youths, three of whom were below 18 years old while the fourth was 22, were subsequently arrested and charged with kidnapping and murdering Lai. The incident of Lai's kidnapping-turned-murder brought shock to the whole of Malaysia when it first came to light. In 2011, the mastermind Teh Kim Hong (郑锦洪) was sentenced to death while two of Teh's co-defendants Leong Soon Long (梁顺龙) and Wong Soon Heng (黄顺兴), who were underaged at the time of the murder, were spared the gallows and detained indefinitely, and a fourth accused Wong Kah Wai (黄家伟), who was also underaged, was acquitted without his defence being called. 13...

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