Ong Hock Thye CJ (Malaya) (delivering the judgment of the Court):

On 8 June 1968 two sacks were discovered floating in the Malacca River some distance apart. In one was a headless body with its legs chopped off at midthigh. The other contained the missing head and legs. The torso was clothed and in the trousers pockets were found some money, bills and an identity card. The police officer in charge of investigation called at the address so discovered and found one wall facing the air- well of the house spattered with blood. In the kitchen he collected two axes and a chopper. He then arrested the appellant, who was tenant of the premises. The holder of the identity card had been living there, but was missing. He was a son of the appellant, named Goh Hong Koon.

There never was a shadow of doubt that Goh Hong Koon was slain and dismembered by his father. He was last seen alive by two persons, residents in the same premises, on the night of 5 June 1968. They were sub-tenants of the appellant, sharing the back bedroom on the ground floor. The only other bedroom in the house was that used by the appellant and his wife, the deceased's step-mother. The deceased used to sleep on a