Accomplice in double murder case withdraws her appeal

AUDREY Ong Pei Ling, who was sentenced to 12 years in jail for helping her boss and boyfriend in the Orchard Towers double murder case, yesterday withdrew her appeal against the sentence. 

Ong, 23, who worked for the main accused in the case, Michael McCrae, had pleaded guilty in February this year to helping her British boss dispose of the bodies of two people he allegedly murdered on Jan 2 last year.  

McCrae, 45, who is still in Australia pending an appeal against extradition, faces charges of killing his chauffeur, Kho Nai Guan, 46, and the man's girlfriend, Lan Ya Ming, 29, from China. 

Kho's body was stuffed in a wicker basket and left in the back seat of a car while Lan's body, wrapped in cloth, was in the boot. 

 

The car was found abandoned on the seventh floor of the car park in Orchard Towers on Jan 7 last year.  

 

Ong, who was arrested in Melbourne last June, returned to Singapore in November to face charges. 

A Melbourne Magistrates Court in November ordered that McCrae be extradited here to face two charges of murder and one of intimidation but he has appealed against the order. He is still in the city's Port Philip prison. – The Straits Times/ Asia News Network