Would you buy one?
Some will, some have. These are walls that have seen too much: blood, violence, innocent lives brutally snuffed out. But some S'poreans don't mind living there. Just give it some new paint, they say ...
A) THE ninth-storey unit at Block 114, Geylang Lorong 3, where a gruesome murder took place is now eerily empty.
It was where factory supervisor Leong Siew Chor allegedly killed and cut up the body of China national Liu Hong Mei.
That happened two months ago.
Leong's wife and his three children have since moved out of the flat, which had earlier attracted curious visitors after he was charged with the murder.
Strangers had turned up looking for lottery numbers. Superstitious neighbours held prayers outside the flat, to 'cleanse' it.
Will the flat be sold? Would anyone want to live there?
B) In the same month that Ms Liu was killed, Madam Tan Chiang Eng, 39, was found dead in her Wellington Circle five-room flat in Sembawang.
Her Indonesian maid, Rohana, has been charged with the murder.
Painful memories and the publicity surrounding the case often force families to abandon homes where violent crimes have been committed.
In at least two other cases, such flats have been put up for sale.
C) On New Year's Day last year, Mr Pay Boon Chye, 32, was burnt to death in his flat in Block 757, Woodlands Avenue 4, by his brother-in-law.
The case was classified as murder but the suspect, Sim Swee Kee, 48, died in Malaysia after an asthma attack last March, while he was on the run.
D) And in 2001, Madam Zaiton Abu Bakar, 45, was stabbed to death in her bedroom in Block 303, Canberra Road.
The family members of Mr Pay and Madam Zaiton decided to sell their homes after the murders.
Mr Pay's family managed to sell their four-room flat last year after giving it a fresh coat of paint.
A property agent helped them sell it to a family of four who have moved in. DIDN'T KNOW
The current owner, who declined to be named, told The New Paper on Sunday that they did not know of the history of the flat before they bought it.
They only heard about the murder from their new neighbours.
'Initially I was shocked and angry that the property agent and ex-owner did not tell us about it,' said the owner.
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