Gruesome murder of a pregnant Sri Lankan prostitute

Unfortunately, some foreign women are often lured into prostitution under the watchful eyes of their pimps. The women have little or no protection against aggressive or criminal customer, neither are the operators of such sleazy budget hotels offer any security measures to prevent customers using their rooms for illicit or illegal trades.

There is a need to revamp the budget hotels to improve the regulations and enforcements to prevent street prostitution activities or vice rings to operate inside the hotels. Over the past few years, such hotels have become seeding for crime activities including illegal immigrants, prostitution, drugs related incidents, etc. The lawlessness of such vice rings and street walkers has turned the neighborhood into a ghetto affecting residents and families.


For instance, below is the Straits Times news of the gruesome murder of a pregnant Sri Lankan prostitute at a hotel in Lorong 18, Geylang Road in Sept 2008.

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Man admits killing prostitute

Jan 11, 2010
Man admits killing prostitute
By Carolyn Quek

HE HAD sex with a pregnant prostitute twice in a Geylang hotel but when Indian national Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy asked for the third time, she wanted more money.

A scuffle ensued, and the 21-year-old general worker ended up killing the Sri Lankan woman and stuffing her body under the bed. Despite this, he took her valuables, found another prostitute and brought her back to the same room for sex.

Reddy, who worked in a shipbuilding company, pleaded guilty on Monday to committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder in September 2008. He will be sentenced on Thursday.

The High Court heard that Reddy got to know the Sri Lankan prostitute, also 21, less than a month before he killed her. She was seven months pregnant with a boy when she died and had two other sons aged six and two.

He was arrested on Sept 5 2008, two days after he took her to the Diammond Hotel at Geylang Lorong 18.

Reddy faces the maximum punishment of a life sentence.

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Source: Straits Times news online

Sri Lankan prostitution rings operate in budget hotel

Videos had been removed. We pray for  Peace, Security and Harmony in this neighbourhood and others.

Is there a syndicate operating behind all these vice activities ?

With the Anti-Vice enforcements recently, many arrests of foreign women were made. Well done to the relevant personnel involved.




Residents and businesses are puzzle their persistent existence in the vicinity since 2005.

Serious questions are posed :-

Are there a syndicate involved as they appear to be in such organised manner appearing at same locations and hotels. For example, the soliciting activities are carried out in the public walkway of Lorong 15, Geylang and the clients are then brought into the Hotel at Lorong 15, Geylang Road to carry out the sexual transactions. The operator or the staffs working in the hotels are fully aware of their vice operation yet continue allowing them to rent the said hotel despite frequent raids by the authority.

Below shows recent photos depict more Sri Lankan pimps involve in the illicit trade. Without arresting the pimps or investigating with the possibility of a syndicate, the street prostitution
activities and associate crimes will not cease.

As the Chinese saying goes " 斩草不除根 , 春风吹又生 " ( When cutting down weeds, you must get at the roots. Otherwise, the weeds will return with the spring breeze. ); without removing the roots/sources of the problem, the problem will persist. Residents had also voiced out previously merely arresting the street prostitutes only alleviate the symptoms instead of the roots cause or "治标不治本 " .

Hence it will be a waste of public resources in carrying out the enforcements if the sources of the problems are not removed. Sources refer to persons, organisations or premises involved in the gathering, bringing in and watching over the women; arranging with hotel operators or premise owners to allow these groups to carry out the illicit trades in the rooms, etc.

We appeal to the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation as these activities have also put Singapore's international reputation at stake as a clean, safe and secure country for the citizens and foreigners.

Sri Lankan pimps' presence threaten the security of the neighbourhood

Wishing All A Happy and Peaceful New Year for 2009.

A comment was made by winterstome on 4 Dec 2008 in response to a news article " Sri Lanka sex ring exposed in S pore" posted on the lankanewspapers.com website.

"Prostitution is legal in Singapore. that provided they have to go for medical check up and get license.

how ever, sri lanakans don't flow the rule.
Sri Lanakans get slandered in Singapore, take the paid / un paid job as pimps.

most of the woman aged 20-25years brought over to Singapore as business, they asked to go for the cheap prostitutions to Bangladesh and Indian workers who work as a contraction and street cleaners in Singapore.

rate is the lovers as $25 for a sri lankan girls, where as china girls start at $80 per 20 min.

due to their skin color age and fat.

sri Lanakan woman work as free lance sex workers in Singapore, they don't have license. if police arrives they have to run away, so sri lankan pimps gives the tips etc,

how ever, the pimps are sri lanka colombo born ager 30-35 years. they don't have a clue of Singapore police.

how ever, the sri lankans girls were told that pimps pay money to police and have big contacts like in sri lanka.

normally the poor girls got cheated in that way, once the police arrives, pimps are the one runs away first, also pimps makes the forge visa stamps for the girls.

pimps uses to get a commission of $5 or more for their service to them. normally Colombo born unemployed man 30-35years works as pimps in Singapore. from the hair cut it shows where they from.

after a mon or so, the girls will return to sti lanka back as tourists. with lots of electronic goods etc, and they come back again and make the air ticket money and some for their expenses, and good life in Singapore.

This case is very bad, may be due to the bad attitudes of sri lankan girls, not knowing about the sex trade, could be a forigner want to have sex with sri lankan girl, due to her attitude, he would have killed her.

normally contraction workers from India are very rude. sri lankans and they cant get along in most of the cases. since sri lankan girls sold for cheap, they approach them.

however, its a sad story to have a sri lankan girls body under a red light district in Singapore known as Geylang.

this trade happening for last 7 years, now only it cames all in the newspapers due to murder. "

How true the above comment made on the operation of the syndicate remains to be confirmed. Hence, we hope the Singapore authorities will look into this potential
problem that may threaten the security of Singapore.

Source http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2008/2/25147.html

Street prostitution - a threat to the security of Singapore

The increase activities of street prostitution ( nationality PRCs, Sri Lankans, Vietnamese, Indians etc. ) are attracting crimes from gang fights, murders, robberies, cheats in Geylang neighbourhood.

Are these prostitutes act freely on their own independently ? This may be true in the past, however, it is observe more appears to act in groups with pimps, look-outs or some even with private vehicles or taxi to transport them around in Singapore.

Geylang residents ( more than 1,000 residents ) are constantly facing such threats or harassments from street prostitution for the past few years. In recent years, increase budget hotels, pubs/ktvs/nightclubs, uncontrolled shady coffee-shops, bogus health centres with insufficient enforcements or regulations have attracted crimes into Geylang and immediate neighbourhood (Haig Road, Sims Avenue) .

A video posted by a concern person of the the rampant street-walkers at Geylang.

Recent news reports

" Gang held for dealing in fake passports
Thursday, 4 October 2007 - 7:49 AM SL Time
The police on Wednesday arrested a gang of six persons, including two Tamils from Sri Lanka and Singapore, on charges of possessing fake passports, visa stickers and degree certificates in the name of different universities. It was operating from a house in Virugambakkam.

Following information that some people indulged in circulating fake passports, Commissioner of Police G. Nanchil Kumaran directed a special team to probe the complaint.

A decoy approached the gang for a passport and the police arrested the gang members when they offered him a fake passport for a price.

The gang allegedly replaced photographs in invalid passports with photographs of persons who sought passports. A colour photo copier machine was also seized.

The arrested are T. Mahendran, Jagadeesan, both residing at Tirumangalam, K. Abdul Basheer of Tiruvallur, C. Leo of Pamban Chatram, Chinniah of Kodambakkam and Simon of Virugambakkam. " - source : Lankanewspapers.com

http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2007/10/20014.html

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" Interpol assistance sought to arrest LTTE suspect in Singapore
Tuesday, 2 October 2007 - 7:17 AM SL Time

Customs officer, wharf clerk helped clear explosives, Communication Equipment

Sri Lanka has sought Interpol assistance for the arrest and exportation of an LTTE agent, living in Singapore, who had exported 150 units of high tech inter-com equipment and explosives seized by the Terrorist Investigation Division in a residence at Ja-Ela recently.

TID sources said a Customs officer and a wharf clerk, both Sinhalese, were responsible for clearing the consignment of intercoms and explosives at the airport for transport to Ja-Ela and Kotahena.

The TID was able to get the information about the explosives taken to Kotahena after interrogating a woman, a Sinhalese from Kadawata and her husband suspected to be an LTTE cadre. She had told the sleuths that they were living in a house that belonged to her husband`s brother who was abroad but she was not aware about all the activities of her husband.

The raid on the Ja-Ela residence and seizure of intercom equipment and explosives was made possible after interrogation of a group of LTTE suspects arrested recently at Chilaw, TID sources said.

Sources said the details of the LTTE operative have been dispatched to Interpol.

The Island in an exclusive story reported the finding of the 150 sets high tech intercom sets at Ja-Ela by the TID a few weeks back. " - source : Lankanewspapers.com

http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2007/10/19936.html

Why we need to be on vigilance against foreigner 'groups'

As a globalise country, we hope the relevant authorities in Singapore will be more conscious and prepare to address the potential threats from the process. These entail both city planning and management as well as security management. Hi-tech machines and professionally trained personnels are crucial, moral and ethical education are equally important if not more.

While it is rational that Singaporeans should accept foreigner immigrants and talents to increase and maintain economic growth; there are urgent needs to study negative impacts on the community and to derive policies to deal with the problems.

We could go on nagging about security reasons without aware of the problems. Perhaps, a better way is to show and learn about the problems faced in other countries and their solutions.

In cosmopolitan London, the problems of foreign immigrant 'grouping' in gangs and sects are holding the community in potential threats as view in this documentary.

Video of Sri Lankan prostitution group

We have compiled some of the clips and photos over the years of the Sri Lankan group or groups operating in the neighbourhood of Geylang.

Questions: 1. How many of them? Do they operate alone or with the locals ? 2. Why and how are the pimps able to operate for several years since 2003 ? 3. What gives them the confidence to operate boldly in Geylang ? Do they have backers ?

Lawlessness behaviours :- Codeine or Cough Mixture Abuse

This short clip was sent to us and had been applied some effects to protect the identity of whoever involved.


Codeine or cough mixture abuses have been rampant due to easily access at backlane traders in the lorongs including 11, 13, 15, 17, 21 and 24 of Geylang Rd. in the past. It has been mentioned that drug addicts use this as cheap substitutes to give that 'high'. There had been several raids in the past, but the trades can still be seem in some backlanes.

The message is clear, our authorities should increase more enforcements and patrolling in the area or else, Geylang will be like neighbouring country who is suffering from increasing crimes.



There have already cases of murder of a prostitute, rape of China prostitutes, drug tradings and not forgetting the usual street prostitution. Confining the problems within the Geylang will not solve the problem because these activities are highly mobile and Singapore is a small country. This means the criminals and the crimes can be easily spread to other parts of Singapore in view of the small island area.

Chinatown - foreign women soliciting publicly

Similar problem of street-walkers from China have been harassing the public in the busy common walkway of Chinatown in Singapore as described in this website ( Stomp ).

Apparently, street prostitution (as contrast with brothel prostitution ) is causing public outcries as it is a nuisance to passersby and to nearby residents and businesses.

Street prostitution attracts strangers and criminals to a neighbourhood if the authorities are to "close an eye" on the problem.

The reasoning that without prostitution, there may be more rape cases will only hold water if these activites are confined within designated premises. In contrast, lawless street prostitution will only result in more crimes or even rapes as criminals perceive the affected areas are "free-for-all".

Foreign groups operating in Singapore since 2003

As early as 2003, groups of foreigners were already operating in the illegal sex trade in Singapore.

Photo shows group of Sri Lankan females soliciting in Geylang area. ( eyes masked to protect their identities )

Street walkers are causing public chaos

In the past, most prostitutes are confined within brothels or hotels shy away from the public eyes. These had generally served the ' needs ' without disrupting public orders.

In recent years, the influx of foreign street walkers and illegal sex-providers had resulted and attracted criminals ( including a case of rape and robbery of the prostitutes ). With prostitutes aggressively soliciting in common areas, safety and security in public are compromised.

For example, wives, sisters, daughters or girlfriends of families were mistakened and approached by johns. Molests happened unreported as these are troubling for the victims.

Against Foreigners Doing Crimes In Singapore

There has been an increasing surge in foreign women involving in street prostitution in Singapore. This in contrast with "licensed brothels" as prostitution are legal in Singapore.
However, prostitution soliciting are prohibited and illegal.

Prostitution soliciting is no longer a 'victimless' crime as it affects the normal living of the residents and working community. The victims are the families living in the neighbourhood, the legitimate businesses, the children who are unable to come out to play in the playgrounds, the women ( wives, mothers, sisters, friends ) residing in the area being approached by 'johns'; as well as the wives and family members of these men.












Are there no pimps or any middlemen involved who make a living out of the street-prostitution? In Singapore, the street-prostitutes usually work independently.












However, there are suspected cases in which pimps and lookouts or groups are involved in the street-prostitution. These foreign males are making a living out of their prostitutes as well as causing public chaos and disorders. We are also wondering if they involve the locals to establish their 'trades' in these parts of Singapore ?


The residents are lamenting that these lookouts should be subject to the same punishments map out in the laws for pimps or immigration offenders as they too, like the pimps, gain from the foreign prostitutes trades.