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19-year Bt Batok murder mystery solved

A 60-year-old man is convicted of a murder he committed 19 years ago. (AFP Photo)
A 60-year-old man is convicted of a murder he committed 19 years ago. (AFP Photo)

The brutal Bukit Batok murder of 32-year-old housewife Bibi Noor Jahan that went unsolved for 19 years has finally been cracked.

According to The Straits Times, this was after the case was reopened in 2009 and a new investigating officer interviewed her relatives -- which was not done during the initial probe in 1991.

Her murderer was none other than her brother-in-law, Vincent Teo, alias Abdul Aziz Abdullah, who has been sentenced to 10 years' jail after being convicted in court on Friday. He was then 42 when he committed the murder.

Noor Jahan was stabbed 26 times in 1992 at her home in Bukit Batok and was found lying on the floor covered with blood. From the original investigation, the fingerprints of Noor Jahan's brother-in-law was one of four prints found at the scene.

Teo, now 62, pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide after admitting he repeatedly stabbed Madam Bibi.

Teo, who was the victim's brother-in-law, confessed that his motive for killing Noor Jahan was because he saw her as the cause of their mother-in-law's incessant complaints. Their mother-in-law did not approve of her son Ja'afar Suleiman's marriage to Noor Jahan.

Throughout the last 19 years, Teo did not go into hiding and remained in Singapore and continued to work to support his family as an odd-job labourer.

When he received the a letter from the police asking him to go for an interview, he knew that it was related to the crime he committed.

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