Free Blood Lust by Alex Josey Page B

getting his telephone call. Mdm Goh understood from Chou that her husband
had not been at his house. She waited until 5:00 am , and when her husband did not return, dressed and drove to
Chou’s house to look for him. She arrived just after 6:00 am . Andrew Chou came out as she was
about to step into the house. She asked about her husband and he said he did
not know where Ngo was. She noticed his bandaged right hand. He said he had
injured it working at the airport. She left to look for her husband, but with
no success. At 10:15 am , she
reported him missing.
    At about 10:30 pm that evening, a police party led by Inspector Oh Chye Bee,
the investigating officer, went to the Chous’ house. Andrew said he did not
know where Ngo was and when told that Ngo and the two others had been found
dead, he exclaimed ‘Jesus’. DSP Teoh Beng San noticed that Andrew’s right hand
was swollen, and that there were scratches on the bare body of David. When
questioned, Andrew said that he and his brother had been sparring with each
other. He said he was a blue belt taekwondo and that David was a brown belt in
karate. The police arrested them at 1:00 am on 31 December. Later in the morning, the Mercedes and the Volks-wagen were
found abandoned.
    At 4:00 am in the morning of 2 January 1972, Andrew led the police to the home of
Augustine Ang. He led them to Peter Lim who took them to 4a Worcester Road, the
flat of Peter Lim’s aunt, Catherine Tay. Peter pointed to a tin on a ledge. In
it the police found 15 gold bars. In the ceiling they found 90 gold bars. They
went back to the flat again at 9:30 am and Mrs Tay handed them a pillow in which $29,000 in cash were found. Two and a
half hours later, David took the police to his office (Bayer Singapore Ltd.),
where he was employed as assistant manager (technical) and opened a locked
drawer. Inside, the police recovered five gold bars.
    The following day, Stephen Lee took the
police to his house and gave them $1,750 in cash. The same day, Peter Lim gave
them $1,800.
    The main witness for the prosecution was
Augustine Ang. His evidence was shortly to this effect. Before 1965, he was
working with Central Commodity Services Ltd. and came to know Andrew Chou who
was working there. In 1965 or 1966, he went to work for Hagemeyer Trading Co.
and there he met David who was working in the same office. He often visited 19
Chepstow Close. Andrew went to work with Air Vietnam as an air cargo officer.
He once told him that he was sending gold bars to the airport. In October 1971,
Andrew told him he had lost about $70,000. After this incident, Andrew asked
him to escort him to the airport whenever he took gold bars because he feared
he might be robbed. David and Peter Lim also escorted Andrew. Augustine and
Peter were paid $50 each time by Andrew.
    Early in November 1971, Andrew, David, Peter
and he planned to attack and kill the person or persons bringing gold bars to
the Chous’ house (with the assistance of some men to be recruited by Peter),
and take the gold.
    In the Chous’ house (while the Chou brothers
were not in) Ang told the five recruited men briefly what they were to do. “I
told them about two or three persons would come to Andrew’s house and they must
be brought down. By ‘brought down’ I mean ‘kill them’. I told them it must be done
clean and quiet, and the bodies must be buried and they would be paid $20,000
for the job. I also told them that I would arrange for the Chou brothers to
meet them that night. Then they left.”
    They all came back to the Chous’ house later
that evening and in three cars went to Changi Point. At a coffee stall, David
did most of the talking. He explained that his brother had some business
trouble; that two or three men were coming to his house and that these men had
to be brought down; that it must be done clean and quiet and the bodies must be
buried.
    A few days later, in the Chous’ house with
Peter, the brothers asked him to get a new group of