Forensic Experts

Put Our Forensic Expertise to Work for You

SELECTED CASES HIGHLIGHTING OUR EXPERTS’ RANGE OF EXPERTISE

By The Forensic Experts Group

Cases done by our Forensic Scientists

(in alphabetical order)

Chemical Analysis of Unknowns

  • “Fake” pet remains
      • Evidence type: Unknown materials
  • Unknown substances in palm oil
    • Evidence type: Palm oil, simulation experiments
  • PP vs Koh Peng Kiat ( Counterfeit Contact Lenses)
  • Corrosives substances on board MRT train
  • Maid charged over baby’s food
  • Duo attacked customer with pepper spray at Golden Landmark
    • Evidence types: Bag, clothing of victims and suspects, swabs from scene
    • Links: The New Paper
  • Ethylene Glycol in Medical Devices and Related Product

Damage 

  • Causes of failure of a bungee cord
    • Evidence types: Damage (damaged bungee cord and newly bound cord as control sample)
    • Links: Conference abstract
  • Damage to clothing and shoes caused by lightning strike
  • Damage on flexible compressed air tubings in a pharmaceutical plant
    • Evidence types: Damage (damaged tubings and new tubings as control samples)
    • Links: Conference abstract
  • Causes of damage to leather products

Drugs and Toxicology

  • Controlled Substances in Health Supplements
  • Mixed Drug Intoxication

Firearms

Fire and Explosion

  • Benoi shipyard explosion
    • Evidence type: Gas, ignitable liquid residues, scene visit
    • Links: Asiaone
  • Coroner’s Inquiry into LPG gas explosion at Teo Ann Huay Kuan
    • Evidence type: Gas, damage, scene visit, ignitable liquid residues
  • Superbowl Development Pte Ltd v. Powergas Ltd (underground gas explosion).
    • Evidence type: Scene analysis, damage on elbow and spigot of underground PUB gas pipe
    • Links: Conference abstract
  • CNG bus explosion (NSFs escape death by 15 minutes).
    • Evidence type: Bus, damage
    • Links: Asiaone

Forensic Reconstruction/ Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Marks and Prints

  • PP v Yubindra and others (Drug Trafficking Case involving 5 Nepalese and 3 South Koreans)
    • Evidence type: Marks (masking tape), trace evidence (shoes, pen knives, shoe brush, and shoe polish)
    • Links: Asiaone, Straits Times
  • PP v Kamal Bin Kupli and others (Murder)
  • Counterfeit medicine bottles

Questioned Document Examination

Simulations

  • Coroner’s Inquiry into the death of A*Star American Researcher, Shane Todd
    • Evidence type: Scene examination, trace evidence, damage analysis, simulation experiments, handwriting (whether it was physically possible for the deceased to hang himself and the behaviour of a polymeric strap when it was subject to weight.)
    • Links: AGC opening statement, Coroner’s Inquiry,Straits Times
  • PP v Barokah (domestic helper pushed her employer over the window – fall from a height)
    • Evidence type: Bloodstain pattern, scientific simulations to determine the manner in which the deceased could have toppled over and fell, scene reconstruction
    • Links: Asiaone: 1, 2, Singapore High Court Judgements: 1, 2
  • PP v Constance Chee (woman pushed a 4-year old girl over a parapet wall to her death)
    • Evidence type: damage on metal panel of sheltered walkway, scientific simulations to determine throw distances from various storey

Trace Evidence

Traffic Accident Reconstruction

  • Committee of Inquiry into The Little India Riot
    • Evidence type: Traffic accident reconstruction, trace evidence, bloodstain pattern, damage analysis
    • Links: Asiaone: 1, 2, 3, Straits Times
  • PP v Teo Tiong Kiat (hit-and-run traffic accident)
  • Freak accident on AYE
    • Evidence type: Traffic accident reconstruction
    • Links: Straits Times
  • Boy,2 dies after being hit by mum’s car
    • Evidence type: Traffic accident reconstruction
    • Links: Asiaone