Married man, 51, strangled mistress, 31, at Gardens by the Bay & burned her body over 3 days

A 51-year-old married man, Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock, has been found guilty of killing his 31-year-old mistress.

The murder took place in July 2016.

Khoo denied the affair

Khoo met Cui Yajie when he noticed her crying outside the home of her ex-boyfriend, who was Khoo's neighbour.

Khoo, who is married with a 15-year-old son, apparently told Cui that he was a divorcee who owned a laundry business.

The pair started going out after that, and Cui even lent him S$20,000 for a purported investment.

According to a separate CNA report, Khoo admitted to having other girlfriends, and testified that he would tell women that he was not married if they asked him about it.

However, Khoo denied the affair with Cui, saying that she was merely going around telling people that he was her boyfriend in order to "show off".

Strangled mistress in car, burnt the body

Apparently, Cui had threatened to tell Khoo's employer about their affair and the money he owed her.

Apart from Cui, Khoo had also swindled four other women of S$65,000, according to The Straits Times.

He had also misappropriated S$24,000 from his company.

On the day of the murder, Khoo told Cui that he would pick her up and meet his supervisor together.

However, he drove her to Gardens by the Bay instead.

And when they began quarrelling in the car, he strangled her to death.

He left her body in the car overnight, and over the next three nights, Khoo burnt her body at a deserted road along Lim Chu Kang Lane 8.

Her ashes were scattered into the sea.

Police report made over Cui's disappearance

Cui's colleagues made a police report because she did not turn up for work for three days, and Khoo was arrested when the police realised that he was the last person to have interacted with her.

Khoo took the police to what was left of her remains at Lim Chu Kang, but her body was never recovered.

All that was left was some hair, a bra hook and some fabric that matched the dress she had worn on the day of the murder.

If convicted of murder with the intention of causing bodily injury that he knew would be likely to kill the victim, Khoo could be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.

Top photo via FB/Cui Yajie and Leslie Khoo

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