On 4 September , at a hotel in Geylang , Singapore's red-light district, the naked body of a year-old Sri Lankan prostitute was found under the bed of one of its rooms. Furthermore, Devi was speculated to have been killed at least 24 hours before her corpse was discovered by the hotel cleaners. Through police investigations, the police tracked down the man last seen booking the hotel room with Devi, and arrested the year-old suspect Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy , who confessed to strangling Devi to death during an argument, which occurred due to Reddy asking to have sex with Devi a third time but Devi demanded him to pay more money.
Originally charged with murder, Reddy was in the end sentenced to 17 years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter. On 4 September , at around 11am, two cleaners working at a hotel in Geylang , Singapore's red-light district, were carrying their usual task of cleaning one of the rooms when one of them who wanted to sweep the underside of the bed was unable to move the bed, finding it unusually heavy, and after finding bloodstains under the bed, the two men checked underneath and discovered the naked body of a deceased woman hidden under the bed.
A police report was lodged at around According to a forensic pathologist Dr George Paul, who performed an autopsy on the victim, he found that the cause of death was manual strangulation. He also found that the victim was seven months' pregnant and the fetus was a boy, and the unborn child had also died due to his mother's death. The victim's outer skin had begun to loosen due to early stages of decomposition, and discoloured veins were popping up under the skin.
The Geylang hotel case was one of the two murders to happen on that same day itself. The killer, Luo Faming, was charged with murder on the same day as the perpetrator of the Geylang case but subsequently, Luo was given 24 years' jail for two reduced charges of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter.
During the time when police conducted simultaneous investigations in the two separate murders including the Geylang case , the killer of the Geylang case remained at large as of the time when Luo was arrested, [10] although by the time Luo was charged, the suspect had been taken into custody.
