Lee Yang Joo
October 10, 2002
Singapore

The Electric New Paper
(Singapore)
May 21, 2007

TAXI DRIVER DIES AFTER SCUFFLE WITH PASSENGER

By Ho Lian-Yi
May 21, 2007

[This article about the death of Mr. Toon Chin Joon includes 
 a list of previous taxi homicides, which follows. For the
 rest of the article, see the source file for Mr. Toon.]

OTHER TAXI DRIVER DEATHS

In May 2005, Mr Tan Peng Teck was killed after his vehicle went 
out of control and smashed into a tree near Siglap Centre.

In 2004, Madam Lim Choon Fang, was found dead in a deserted 
road in Tuas, with a bleeding forehead and injuries to her face 
and knee.

In 2002, Mr Lee Yang Joo was stabbed in the chest and 
abdomen and his body was found lying at an isolated stretch of 
Jurong Road.

In 2000, a 42-year-old taxi driver was stabbed to death by three 
men near Chestnut Avenue.

In the same year, a 65-year-old cabby was murdered at Pasir Ris 
Drive 1 by a Thai carpenter.

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