Singaporean in Australia acquitted of murder after eight years behind bars

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The New South Wales Court of Appeal said Singaporean Ram Tiwary was acquitted of murdering his two flatmates in Sydney because the evidence raised reasonable doubt.

Singaporeans Tay Chow Lyang and Tony Tan Poh Chuan were stabbed and clubbed to death with a baseball bat in 2003.

The court said the three people in the car that had picked up Tan from the university were the last people to see Tan alive. However, they did not come forward to help police despite media coverage asking them to do so. The three had apparently arranged to pick Tan up and were waiting for him after allegedly killing Tay.

There was a reasonable possibility that these people had organised to meet Tan after his lecture when, unbeknownst to him, they had killed Tay and were driving Tan to the unit where he would also be killed.

It was not known why these people would want Tay or Tan killed, but the court said the killings did not appear to have been random violence.

Secondly, there was a lack of connecting forensic material linking Tiwari to the death of either men.

None of the blood found on Tiwari or his clothes was that of Tay's.

The court said there was also a dearth of Tan's blood on Tiwari considering the ferocity and violence of the attack. It added that it was possible that the relatively small amount of blood on Tiwari was the result of chance.

Tiwari had said Tan had expirated blood by a reflex cough as he crouched down to check his pulse. The court accepted that such a reflex cough from a dying man was possible.

Tiwary, who had spent more than eight years behind bars, was released on July 27, 2012.

Australian immigration authorities said the 33 year old was being held at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, which is located in a western suburb of Sydney.