Overview
- Jason Hong, 34, was sentenced to three months and one week in jail, fined S$1,000 and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
- He found his partner unresponsive in her Hougang condominium on Apr 23, 2024, left without alerting authorities and told her sister only that she was uncontactable.
- The woman’s body was discovered on Apr 27 in an advanced state of decomposition, and the autopsy could not determine a final cause of death.
- District Judge Sharmila Sripathy-Shanaz called the failure-to-report offence rarely encountered and said Hong’s messages were misleading and caused significant harm.
- Coverage differs on the exact charge: one report says a concealing-a-corpse charge was downgraded to failing to report a death, while another says he pleaded guilty to concealing a human corpse.