Rev Khoo gave spiritual comfort to hardened prisoners for 38 years with his gentle ways
By
K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
Rev Khoo, who spent his years as prison chaplain reforming "the tough nuts", died on Tuesday night after a long battle with cancer. -- ST FILE PHOTO
THEY were 'dead men walking', death-row inmates taking that journey towards the day they would hang.
As prison chaplain at Changi Prison, Reverend Henry Khoo's job was to give them spiritual comfort, help them come to terms with the state's penalty for their crimes and help heal the hurt relationships with friends and kin.
Often, he was the one amazed and humbled by how transformed these men were in their final days.
The 76-year-old retired chaplain, who himself amazed and humbled inmates and all those he met with his gentle, caring ways, died on Tuesday night at the Singapore General Hospital after a long battle with cancer.
