Tan Chor Jin was convicted in May 2007 of fatally shooting nightclub boss Lim Hock Soon 40, at the latter's Serangoon flat on Feb 15, 2006. -- PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO
FORMER gang leader Tan Chor Jin, who was convicted of the fatal shooting of a nightclub boss in 2006, was hanged on Friday morning, said the police.
The execution came more than a week after Tan's final avenue of appeal, a clemency plea to the President, was turned down.
Dubbed 'One-Eyed Dragon' because he was blind in the right eye, Tan, 42, was convicted in May 2007 of firing six rounds from a Beretta pistol with the intention of injuring Mr Lim Hock Soon, 40.
The High Court heard during his trial that Tan had burst into Mr Lim's Serangoon flat on Feb 15, 2006, with a knife in one hand and a loaded pistol in the other.
He ordered Mr Lim to tie up his wife, daughter and their maid.
In the study, Tan fired six shots at his one-time friend. Five of the bullets struck Mr Lim.
Tan left the flat with the family's valuables, then directed a former secret society underling to drive him to a canal, where he dumped the gun.
He made his way to Malaysia but was dramatically captured by Malaysian police in a Kuala Lumpur hotel.
For the full story, read Saturday's edition of The Straits Times
