Unholy Trinity: The Adrian Lim 'Ritual' Child Killings

by Alan John

Singapore’s most bizarre murder case drew to a close on 25 November 1988 when Adrian Lim, his wife Catherine Tan Mui Choo and mistress Hoe Kah Hong were hanged at Changi Prison. after two children were found dead within a fortnight in 1981, the Toa Payoh ‘ritual killings’ proved shocking for the revelations about self-styled spirit medium Adrian Lim’s greed, depravity and cruelty.

The confidence trickster persuaded numerous women that he possessed supernatural powers and they paid him with money, valuables and sex. He tortured his victims with primitive electric shock treatments that left one man dead. He was a monster who beat, slapped and kicked his women to make them fear and obey him as he acted out his every lustful perversion. He turned his wife into a prostitute and stripper. He made his mistress lure the children to their deaths.

Sentencing all three to hang, the trial judges said of Adrian We are revulsed by his abominable and depraved conduct.

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AN EXCLUSIVE INTERIVEW WITH SISTER GERARD, THE NUN WHO COUNSELLED THE TWO WOMEN ACCOMPLICES

216 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 16, 2016

About the author

Alan John was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1953 and attended St John’s Institution and the University of Malaya before starting as a reporter at The New Straits Times in 1976. He moved to Singapore in 1980 and spent the next 35 years at The Straits Times. He headed various parts of Singapore’s main English-language daily before becoming deputy editor, the position he held when he left in 2015. He is married with two children. This is his second book. Unholy Trinity, which appeared in 1989, retold the sensational case of the Adrian Lim child killings that gripped Singapore in the early 1980s.