Justice Audrey Lim Yoon Cheng is a High Court Judge of the Singapore Supreme Court. She was appointed as Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court in 2016 and as a High Court Judge in 2019. She graduated from the

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in 1993. Lim was the trial judge who sentenced

Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock Leslie Khoo Kwee Hock (; born ) is a criminal from Singapore who was convicted of the murder of his Chinese girlfriend Cui Yajie (), with whom he had an extra-marital affair. Khoo, who had previously been criminally convicted for cheating and f ...

life imprisonment Life imprisonment is any sentence (law), sentence of imprisonment under which the convicted individual is to remain incarcerated for the rest of their natural life (or until pardoned or commuted to a fixed term). Crimes that result in life impr ...

after convicting of

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for the death of his girlfriend Cui Yajie at

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. She agreed with the prosecutor

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's arguments for life imprisonment as Khoo did not exhibit any blatant disregard for human life or viciousness from the manner of killing, for which his case would not warrant the

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(the maximum punishment for murder) in comparison to precedent legal cases.

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Living people Judges of the Supreme Court of Singapore Singaporean women judges Alumni of the University of Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people) {{Singapore-law-bio-stub