Man who tortured 19-year-old sister to death in Clementi gets life sentence for murder

Published Nov 05, 2026, 12:52 PM

Updated Nov 05, 2026, 12:52 PM

SINGAPORE – A 34-year-old man who starved and beat his 19-year-old sister for more than two months in 2021 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder on Nov 5.

Huang Bocan, is the second person to be convicted over what prosecutors had described as “horrifying and senseless torture”.

His younger sister, Huang Baoying died on May 5, 2021, after she was starved, beaten and confined in the toilet in a flat at Block 602 Clementi West Street 1.

The owner of the flat, Lim Peng Tiong, 67, was sentenced to 14 years’ and 11 months’ jail on May 25 for his role in the abuse.

Huang Bocan’s married girlfriend, Chee Mei Wan, 47, has also been charged with murder.

The victim died from a combination of severe malnutrition, sepsis and extensive blunt force trauma.

She weighed only 27.6kg at her autopsy, having lost 43 per cent of her body weight over 11 months from June 2020, when her weight was last recorded as 48.8kg.

Chee owned a company selling Herbalife products, which she called a club, where members pay to get discounts on products and could also sell the goods to their own clients.

The two siblings and Lim were members of the club, and Chee was their “coach”.

Chee introduced a system of fines to “correct” the bad habits of club members that she felt would negatively affect sales, which in turn would affect her commission.

This evolved into a punishment system where those who made mistakes had to perform exercises such as squats.

The victim was punished the most because Chee and Huang Bocan thought she lacked discipline and motivation, and performed poorly in product sales.

She was deprived of food, forced out of the flat to fend for herself, chained to a railing beside the toilet bowl, and brutally beaten.

In end-December 2020, Huang Bocan and Chee agreed to “challenge” the victim by restricting her food consumption.

From January 2021, he got her to transfer all her money into his bank account, giving her an allowance of $20 to $30 a week.

She was allowed only one meal a day, ostensibly to teach her about hunger and to be grateful for her food.

Things took a turn for the worse in April to May 2021 when the victim was totally deprived of food for days and was only allowed to drink water.

The victim was also forced out of the flat on several occasions. Once, Huang Bocan cut her hair before chasing her out, to humiliate her because he knew that she loved her long hair.

From February to May 2021, Chee and Huang Bocan started confining the victim in the toilet.

When Chee and Huang Bocan realised that she was leaving the toilet to look for food, the victim was chained to a railing beside the toilet bowl.

The victim was also frequently beaten with a wooden pole that was used for hanging laundry.

On the night of May 4, 2021, Chee allegedly wanted to punish her for lying about whether she had done her squats.

When the victim remained quiet during the beating, Chee and Huang Bocan saw this as defiance.

The trio tried several ways to get a reaction out of her, including holding her head in a basin of iced water.

Salt was poured on the wound on her calf, and she was tied up under a tap and drenched with water.

After midnight on May 5, the trio tried to wake her, but to no avail.

When they eventually decided to call for an ambulance, they agreed to lie to the authorities and present a false account to protect Chee.

Huang Bocan also deleted photographs and videos from his phone that showed the victim’s bruises. He had shown these to her to remind her of the consequences of making mistakes.

He also deleted audio recordings from his phones of the victim being scolded for her mistakes.

Paramedics reported the case to the police after they saw bruises on the victim’s body.

Chee’s case is pending in court.

发布于 2026 年 11 月 5 日下午 12:52

更新于2026年11月5日下午12:52

新加坡——一名34岁男子于2021年将其19岁的妹妹饿死并殴打了两个多月，于11月5日被判处终身监禁。

黄伯灿是第二位因检方所描述的“骇人听闻、毫无意义的酷刑”而被定罪的人。

他的妹妹黄宝英于 2021 年 5 月 5 日去世，此前她被饿死、殴打，并被囚禁在金文泰西街 1 号第 602 座组屋的厕所里。

公寓业主林鹏忠（67岁）因参与虐待事件，于5月25日被判处14年11个月监禁。

黄伯灿的已婚女友，47岁的谢美婉，也被控谋杀。

受害者死于严重营养不良、败血症和广泛的钝器外伤。

尸检时，她的体重只有 27.6 公斤，从 2020 年 6 月起的 11 个月内，她的体重减轻了 43%，当时她的体重最后一次记录为 48.8 公斤。

Chee 拥有一家销售 Herbalife 产品的公司，她称之为俱乐部，会员付费可享受产品折扣，还可以将商品销售给自己的客户。

这对兄妹和林都是俱乐部的成员，而Chee是他们的“教练”。

Chee引入了一套罚款制度，以“纠正”她认为会对销售产生负面影响，进而影响她佣金的俱乐部成员的不良习惯。

这逐渐演变成一种惩罚制度，犯错的人必须进行诸如深蹲之类的锻炼。

受害者受到的惩罚最重，因为 Chee 和 Huang Bocan 认为她缺乏纪律性和积极性，产品销售业绩不佳。

她被剥夺了食物，被迫离开公寓自谋生路，被锁链拴在马桶旁的栏杆上，并遭到残酷殴打。

2020 年 12 月底，黄伯灿和 Chee 同意通过限制受害者的食物摄入量来“挑战”她。

从 2021 年 1 月起，他让她把所有的钱都转到他的银行账户里，每周给她 20 到 30 美元的零花钱。

她每天只被允许吃一顿饭，表面上是为了让她体会饥饿，并对食物心存感激。

2021 年 4 月至 5 月，情况急转直下，受害者连续数日被完全剥夺了食物，只被允许喝水。

受害者曾多次被赶出公寓。有一次，黄伯灿剪掉了她的头发，然后把她赶了出去，以此羞辱她，因为他知道她很喜欢自己的长发。

2021年2月至5月，Chee和黄博灿开始将受害者囚禁在厕所里。

当 Chee 和 Huang Bocan 发现她要离开厕所去找吃的时，受害者已经被锁链拴在了马桶旁边的栏杆上。

受害者还经常遭到晾晒衣物的木杆殴打。

2021年5月4日晚，Chee据称想惩罚她，因为她撒谎说自己没有做深蹲。

当受害者在殴打过程中保持沉默时，Chee 和 Huang Bocan 认为这是反抗。

三人尝试了多种方法来引起她的反应，包括将她的头浸入一盆冰水中。

他们往她小腿上的伤口上撒盐，然后把她绑在水龙头下，用水浇透她。

5月5日午夜过后，三人试图叫醒她，但都无济于事。

当他们最终决定叫救护车时，他们同意向当局撒谎，并提供虚假陈述以保护 Chee。

黄伯灿还删除了手机里显示受害者身上瘀伤的照片和视频。他曾给受害者看这些照片和视频，是为了提醒她犯错的后果。

他还删除了手机中受害者因犯错而被训斥的录音。

医护人员在看到受害者身上有瘀伤后，向警方报案。

Chee的案件仍在法院审理中。