Global InformationSim Ah Cheoh information
Sim Ah Cheoh | |
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 Sim Ah Cheoh | |
| Born | c. 1948 Colony of Singapore |
| Died | 30 March 1995 (aged 47) Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore |
| Occupation | Housewife |
| Criminal status | Pardoned and released on 16 February 1995 |
| Criminal charge | Drug trafficking |
| Penalty | Death sentence in 1988, later commuted to life imprisonment in 1992 |
Sim Ah Cheoh (沈亚彩 Shěn Yàcăi; c. 1948 – 30 March 1995) was a Singaporean drug trafficker of Chinese descent. She was originally sentenced to death in 1988 for the crime, for which she was arrested in 1985, and Sim's two accomplices Lim Joo Yin (林裕炎 Lín Yùyán) and Ronald Tan Chong Ngee (陈忠义 Chen Zhōngyì) were also arrested and received the same sentence, and like Sim, both also lost their appeals against their sentence. Subsequently, while Lim and Tan were executed on 3 April 1992,[1] Sim was granted clemency and her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, making her the fourth person since 1959, as well as the second female and second drug convict on death row to be pardoned from execution by the President of Singapore.
A year later, Sim was diagnosed with cancer while in prison. As she was found to have around 12 more months left to live, Sim was granted clemency a second time after she applied to the President of Singapore to pardon her and release her to let her receive treatment and spend the final days of her life with her family and sons outside prison. She died at the age of 47 in March 1995, a month after she regained her freedom.[2]
- ^ "2 hanged for helping to traffick in 1.3 kg of heroin". The Straits Times. 4 April 1992.
- ^ "这11人在新加坡犯了滔天大罪也能有退路". 红蚂蚁 (in Chinese). 3 January 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2021.