Justice is served!

jeffrey75 SG

Finally, the a*****e Ram Tiwary has been found guilty a second time round! He deserves to hang, but unfortunately Australia does not have the death penalty. He should be locked up forever for the brutal murders of his fellow singaporeans. I sympathise with the wife of the one of the victims for having to go through the re-trial again and learning of the internet chats her husband had with another girl. Shame on the defence! Shame on Tiwary and all his family in singapore. That a*****e should rot in jail. B*****y SAF scholar!

SBS7484P SG

ok point taken

limpper SG

noted

Googooboyy SG

Strong sentiments indeed. I suppose TS is pro-capital punishments huh.

HITMAN11111111111 SG

something isnt right,,,,,,,,,,,,,,why would someone with everything all laid out for him want to kill n destroy himself??he is a officer n all officers are as good as noblemen and know when to stop.............i think oz justice system could be faulty...if he wanted to kill...he could have done that long ago back in spore.why now in oz?

HITMAN11111111111 SG

on the other hand there was one officer who ended up killing himself in oz fer AWOL charge....hmmmm..........something all dont smell right.

jffdevil4 SG

post edited due to offensive in nature..

Rock^Star SG

it still baffles me as to why an saf scholar would want to kill his housemates just because he owed them $3000 plus in rent.

fireng SG

it still baffles me as to why an saf scholar would want to kill his housemates just because he owed them $3000 plus in rent.

Money makes a person go crazy

dukedracula SG

people have been kiiled for less..."oi! see what! you stare at me ar!"...chop..

Rock^Star SG

how vicious...killing with a baseball bat. maybe he commando training until siao liao.

mancha SG

This is like saying, if he wanted to kill, he could use a commando stiletto, why use a baseball bat, therefore he did not do it.

QX179R SG

Sydney court finds Tiwary guilty of double murder of Singaporean flatmates

SYDNEY: An Australian court hearing the re-trial of Ram Tiwary on Tuesday found him guilty for the double murders of his Singaporean flatmates Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang.

In September 2003, Tiwary's two Singaporean housemates were found brutally murdered in Kingsford. All three were engineering students at the University of New South Wales.

Tiwary, who was on a Singapore Armed Forces study award, was arrested seven months after the murders, when he tried to leave Australia for Singapore.

In 2006, Tiwary was convicted of both murders and sentenced to life imprisonment without reprieve. However, Tiwary was granted a fresh trial at the court of appeal last year.

Tiwary claimed at the first trial to have slept through the murders. At the retrial which started five weeks ago, he changed his story, saying that he had hid and barricaded himself in his room.

However, the evidence of bloodstains on Tiwary's hands, shorts and feet pointed to his guilt.

It was also found that Tiwary's baseball bat was used as a murder weapon. In this trial, Tiwary was represented by Senior Counsel David Dalton, who made several fiery addresses to the jury.

The jury of eight women and four men at the Supreme Court of New South Wales deliberated for close to 17 hours but could not reach a unanimous verdict.

The state of New South Wales can accept a majority verdict of 11-1 after a minimum of eight hours of deliberation.

The judge ruled that sufficient time had passed, and after a brief recess, the jury delivered the guilty verdict.

Later, a resigned Tiwary - now 30 years old - was led away in an armoured truck, back to prison in Lithgow, three hours northwest of Sydney.

The court meets again for sentencing on November 13. Each of Tiwary's two murder charges carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Tiwary's family did not comment on the verdict.

- CNA/yb

maxsee SG

you relative of the deseased ah? how come u hate him so much ah? i dun think it is right for us to judge....not like anyone of us really know wat happens when the crime was committed......let the jury judged him la....anyway he just has his appeal turned down again.....

Short Ninja SG

He just wanted to beat the crap out of his roomates for treating him like shit but overdid it.He is guilty as hell.

PedoBear SG

he tot he was playing grand theft auto

limpper SG

can appeal how many times arh?

artspraken11 SG

Bao Chuan R.I.P.

mancha SG

Should be around 60 yo then come out.

QX179R SG

Ram Tiwary sentenced to 48 years

The former Singaporean student found guilty of murdering two of his flatmates in Australia, has been jailed for a maximum 48 years.

With parole and time already served the earliest Ram Tiwary can expect to be released is 2042.

It was the climax to a murder investigation which began more than six years ago when the bodies of Singaporean students Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang were found in the apartment they shared with Tiwary in this house.

Both young men had been clubbed to death with a baseball bat.

The horrific nature of the killings sent shock waves through the nearby University of New South Wales, where many of the students were also Asian.

Initially there were fears the murders were racially motivated.

But eight months later in a surprise breakthrough, police charged their flatmate Ram Tiwary with their deaths.

Then 23, Tiwary was on a scholarship awarded him by the Singapore armed forces.

Protesting his innocence, he was later found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

However, an appeal court later ordered a re-trial on the grounds the judge had misdirected the jury.

The second trial, which lasted 26 days, again found Tiwary guilty.

And today he was told he could expect to spend the next 33 years of his life behind bars.

The judge said both murders were violent and savage which elevated the gratvity of the crime.

In the case of Tan, the second victim, this was not a spontaneous attack, he said, rather an execution to prevent him giving evidence against the offender.

The prosecution earlier claimed that Ram Tiwary had the "motive, opportunity and capacity" to carry out the murders.

The fact that he also owed Mr Tay several thousand dollars in back rent, might also have provided a motive.

Tiwary’s relatives, who earlier admitted they were still "terribly distraught," were not in court today. Nor were relatives of the dead men.

But the convicted Singaporean is unlikely to let things rest.

His defence team would not confirm whether he is likely to appeal, but Tiwary’s courtroom demeanour suggested he was unmoved by the length of his sentence.

He offered no response before or after the sentence was handed down.

--938Live