Justice Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng is a High Court Judge of the Singapore Supreme Court. She was appointed as Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 2016 and as a High Court Judge in 2019. She graduated from the

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in 1993. Lim was the trial judge who sentenced

Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock (; born ) is a criminal from Singapore who was convicted for the murder of his Chinese girlfriend Cui Yajie (), with whom he had an extra-marrital affair with. Khoo, who had previously been criminally convicted for cheating ...

life imprisonment Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...

after convicting of

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

for the death of his girlfriend Cui Yajie at

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; she agree with the prosecutor

Hri Kumar Nair Hri Kumar Nair (born 16 June 1966) is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician who has been serving as Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore since 2017. A former member of the People's Action Party, he was the Member of Parliament representin ...

's arguments for life imprisonment as Khoo did not exhibit any blatant disregard for human life or viciousness from the manner of killing, for which his case would not warrant the

death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

(the maximum punishment for murder) in comparison to precedent legal cases.

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