Wild Women Do

Suan Futt Yeo

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Often regarded as the fairer sex, women can be just as evil and ruthless as their male counterparts. In fact some even consider them more deadly as they are not above using the feminine charms to get their own way. Here then are cases of women who have fallen foul of the law. From girls who cheat elderly gentlemen of their retirement funds to a teacher who seduces her male student, from maids who poisoned their employers to the accountant who stole from the company she worked for. These are the wild women you don't want to meet.

Sujets

• True crime

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• Publié par: Marshall Cavendish International
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789814484671
• Langue: English

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WILD WOMEN DO

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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Yeo, Suan Futt.
Wild women do : female killers, tricksters and crooks in Singapore / Yeo Suan Futt. - Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2013 .
pages cm
eISBN : 978 981 4484 67 1
1. Female offenders - Singapore. 2. Crime - Singapore. I. Title.
HV6535.12
364.374095957 - dc23 OCN 843749065
Printed in Singapore by Markono Print Media

Cover design by Benson Tan
Cover photo courtesy of Belovodchenko Anton ( www.sxc.hu )
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Owe Money, Pay
Chapter 2 Save Me, Kill My Husband
Chapter 3 Teacher s Pet
Chapter 4 ...she vanished without a trace.
Chapter 5 Show me yours...
Chapter 6 Not Yet a Woman, WMD
Chapter 7 Sticker Lady; Art or What?
Chapter 8 Naked Rage
Chapter 9 Teenage Terror
Chapter 10 Close Encounter of the Barefaced Kind
Chapter 11 Silver Lining: Never Too Old
Chapter 12 You Lie, You Die
Chapter 13 Languishing Abroad
I have become more interested as the years go on in the preliminaries of crime. The interplay of character upon character, the deep smouldering resentments and dissatisfactions that do not always come to the surface but which may suddenly explode into violence.
-Agatha Christie
Today, with education and advances in information technology and resources, people of different social classes, societies, and naturally, genders enjoy access to equal opportunities. Where once men dominated in both work and social life, the gap in achievement and importance between men and women has been closing rapidly in all but the most backward societies.
The glass ceiling at the workplace has been duly recognised and systematically dismantled over several decades, such that women too, take their place with men at the head of government and industry.
Naturally, this phenomena of catch-up includes crime. Data in developed countries point to crimes perpetrated by women as a rising trend. In Singapore, women account for around a tenth of convicted prisoners, and they figure in every category of crime, from petty theft, cons, drug offences, to murder.
Women have never been flogged; there is no provision for that under the law here in Singapore, it being reserved for male criminals under the age of 50, but women are no strangers to death row.
In this volume, the stories of women criminals are told, spurred beyond the boundaries of law and decency by motives as varied as their personalities and circumstances, from calculated evil to blind, naked madness. What is the nature of the female criminal mind? No less vicious than a male felon s, for sure.
The 1987 film Fatal Attraction was the highest grossing Hollywood film the year of its release for the way it dramatized an extra-marital affair spun out of control. Here in Singapore, something similar was played out in real life 17 years later, in a deeply personal tragedy that claimed a most innocent victim. Perhaps this is only to be expected, as when something as volatile as emotion and passion are toyed with - or perceived to be handled with callousness - there is hell to pay, as men and women have learned through the ages. Only, the awful price is not always exacted from the very individuals who are most culpable.
According to court records, Constance Chee was nicknamed sexy girl when a student at Victoria Junior College, the latter generally considered one of the better pre-university institutions in Singapore. She dropped out of university to pursue a career as an air stewardess in Singapore Airlines where she worked for several years.
When she met Neo towards the later part of 2003, her services at Singapore Airlines had been terminated and she was jobless.
Neo on the other hand was a garung guni - a rag and bone man - and this raised eyebrows when the case first broke, how a man who made his living collecting recyclables and junk could pair off with a Singapore Girl glamorised in millions of dollars of SIA advertising spanning decades.
While it wasn t the least bit glamorous, being a garung guni was more honest work compared to Neo s former job as a pimp. But this was as far as honesty went. After they met - Constance sold him some used electrical appliances - Neo courted her and they soon became intimate. It was only months later, in February the following year that Constance learned that Neo was already married, with a four-year-old daughter, to boot. But in Constance s case, one believes what one wants to believe: somehow, Neo managed to convince her that his marriage had already broken down beyond repair, and the affair continued; Constance would even stay over at Neo s flat when his Thai-born wife and his daughter visited Bangkok.
Shortly after, Neo even got Constance to lend him some 50,000 to start a business - not a small sum by any measure, especially for a jobless person. Constance would never see the bulk of this money ever again. Citing her possessiveness as one of the major reasons that caused their relationship to suffer, Neo broke off with Constance sometime in July the following year (2004). As for the money, he simply told her that he had lost all of it through gambling. Whether this is true cannot be verified: 50,000 was not even translated into any tangible object, the money simply vanished into thin air.
For Constance, who had invested so heavily into the relationship, both emotionally and financially, it is little wonder that she would be driven to extremes in trying to recover as much of her money as possible. Initially, Neo agreed to repay her the money, in monthly instalments of 500. That meant Neo would take more than eight years to return her the full sum - if he kept at it. As it turned out, he stopped paying Constance after only the second instalment.
On her end, Constance would call Neo often on his mobile phone, and being jobless also gave her the opportunity to stake out Neo s residence, and Whampoa Hawker Centre where Neo s wife worked as a hawker s assistant. According to Neo, she would bang on the doors asking for money when his wife was not around, and on some occasions even barged into his home uninvited.
IN THE OPEN
One such incident, recalled in court, happened on 3 October 2004, at around 9 pm. Constance called Neo again on the mobile phone. But through his bedroom window, Neo could see that she was actually hiding behind a wall along the common corridor. To avoid Constance, he did not answer his phone and instead hid with his daughter behind their bedroom door.
At that time, Joseph, a friend of Neo s, had just been released from prison the month before and was living with the family - Neo too, had been jailed before, for pimping. Joseph confronted Constance, and lied to her that Neo wasn t home; but Constance barged into the flat anyway, and a loud quarrel ensued between the two in the living room, with Constance yelling that she knew Neo was in the flat. Neo then emerged from the bedroom and told Constance off for creating a scene, while the latter again demanded the return of her money.
At this point, Neo s wife Kittiduangrat returned and saw the heated exchange. Constance fled on seeing the wife. Kittiduangrat had noticed Constance before, lurking about the neighbourhood and also at the hawker centre where she worked, for the last few weeks. It was only when she pressed her husband for an explanation that she realised he had been having an affair behind her back. But Neo insisted that the affair was over, that he had broken up with Constance.
A while later, Neo s phone rang. This time, Kittiduangrat answered and the female voice at the other end of the line told her that she wanted to settle matters with her face-to-face. After a bath, Kittiduangrat went downstairs to the void deck as arranged. The caller was Constance whom she recognised from earlier. What followed was one of many bizarre incidents. Instead of meeting with Kittiduangrat as agreed on the phone, Constance bolted and ran upstairs.
From the ground floor, Kittiduangrat could see that Constance had reached the seventh or eighth floor. Indeed, the latter was beckoning her to come up. Kittiduangrat walked up the stairs but by the time she reached where Constance was, the latter had again disappeared on her. There was nothing for Kittiduangrat to do except walk downstairs again, and here, Constance once again appeared, waving to her. Fed up