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AUTOPSY REPORT


CASE #885678

DECEASED: ROGER LIM BENG CHEE

AGE: 72 YEARS HEIGHT: 165cm
RACE: Chinese WEIGHT: 68 KG
SEX: MALE IDENTIFIED BY: Circumstances.

DATE AND TIME OF AUTOPSY: November 28, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

PERFORMED BY: Dr. Christopher Chin

MANNER OF DEATH: HOMICIDE

CAUSE OF DEATH: STAB WOUND ON THE LEFT CHEST

As examined, body parts are soft and friable, falling apart with any manipulation or
examination with surgical instruments. There is considerable quantity of ill-defined
coagulated blood in the left upper chest. Its volume is difficult to estimate secondary
spread decomposition but it appears to be quite localised.


EXTERNAL EVIDENCE

Incise markings are present on adjacent ribs in the mid-chest on the left side. These
are located 6.0 cm from the vertebral end and are therefore approximately 2.0 cm
away from the mid- anxillary line.

LABORATORY RESULTS

TOXICOLOGY:

1. Blood:
a. Ethanol: 0.54 gm%.
B. Drugs: Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate (Viagra) 0.13 gm%

2. Urine:
Negative for cocaine, cocaine metabolite (ecgonine methyl ester), and
cocaethylene, with negative EMIT barbiturates screen.

3. Ocular fluid:
Ethanol, 0.54 gm%.


GENERAL APPEARANCE

The body is that of a well-developed, well-nourished, adult Chinese man who
appears the stated age of 72 years. Body height is 165cm, and body weight is 68kg.
At autopsy, rigor mortis is approximately 12 hours from time of death; livor mortis is
posterior and slightly blanching; the body is cool to touch. Artifacts of decomposition
are absent, and evidence of medical and postmortem care is absent. There is
obvious evidence of sharp-force injury that is definitive in causing death.

//Christopher Chin, M.D.
Coroner’s Office
Nov 28, 2019