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Born on 6 January 1942, Adrian Lim was the eldest son of a middle class family.<ref name="john10">John (1989), 10.</ref> Described at the trial by his sister as a hot-tempered boy,<ref>John (1989), 162.</ref> he dropped out of secondary school and worked a short stint as an informant for the [[Internal Security Department]], joining the cable radio company [[Rediffusion|Rediffusion Singapore]] in 1962. For three years, he installed and serviced Rediffusion sets as an electrician before being promoted to bill collector.<ref name="john10" /> In April 1967, Lim married his childhood sweetheart with whom he had two children. He converted to Catholicism for his marriage.<ref name="nara80">Narayanan (1989), 80.</ref> Lim and his family lived in rented rooms until his 1970 purchase of a three-room flat—a seventh floor unit (#07-467F) of Block 12, Toa Payoh.<ref name="nara80" />
Lim started part-time practice as a spirit medium in 1973. He rented a room where he attended to the women—most of whom were bargirls, dance hostesses, and prostitutes—introduced to him by his landlord.<ref>John (1989), 17–19.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Lim's customers also include superstitious men and elderly females, both of whom he cheated only of cash.|group=fn}} Lim, who learned the trade from a bomoh called "Uncle Willie", prayed to gods of various religions despite his Catholic baptism. The Indian goddess [[Kali]] and
Lim particularly preyed on gullible girls who had deep personal problems. He promised them that he could solve their woes and increase their beauty through a ritual massage. After Lim and his client had stripped, he would knead her body—including her genitals—with
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With Hoe and Tan as his assistants, Lim continued his trade, tricking more women into giving him money and sex.{{#tag:ref|By the time of his arrest, he had 40 "holy wives".<ref>Narayanan (1989), 6.</ref>|group=fn}} In late 1980 he was arrested and charged with rape. His accuser was Lucy Lau, a door-to-door cosmetic salesgirl, who had met Lim when she was promoting beauty products to Tan. On 19 October, Lim told Lau that a ghost was haunting her, but he could exorcise it with his sex rituals. She was unconvinced, but the medium persisted. He secretly mixed two capsules of [[Flurazepam|Dalmadorm]], a sedative, into a glass of milk and offered it to her, claiming it had holy properties. Lau became groggy after drinking it, which allowed Lim to take advantage of her.<ref name="john48" /> For the next few weeks, he continued to abuse her by using drugs or threats. In November, after Lim had given her parents a loan smaller than the amount they had requested, Lau made a police report about his treatment of her. Lim was arrested on charges of rape, and Tan for abetting him. Out on bail, Lim persuaded Hoe to lie that she was present at the alleged rape but saw no crime committed. This failed to stop the police enquiries; Lim and Tan had to extend their bail, in person, at the police station every fortnight.<ref>John (1989), 49.</ref>
[[File:Lim's Altar.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Lim prayed [at this altar] to Buddha,
Frustrated, Lim plotted to distract the police with a series of child murders.<ref>John (1989), 61.</ref> Moreover, he believed that sacrifices of children to Kali would persuade her supernaturally to draw the attention of the police away from him. Lim pretended to be possessed by Kali, and convinced Tan and Hoe that the goddess wanted them to kill children to wreak vengeance on Lau.<ref>John (1989), 84.</ref> He also told them
On 24 January 1981, Hoe spotted Agnes at a nearby church and lured her to the flat. The trio plied her with food and drink that was laced with Dalmadorm. After Agnes became groggy and fell asleep, Lim sexually abused her. Near midnight, the trio smothered Agnes with a pillow and drew her blood, drinking and smearing it on a portrait of Kali. Following that, they drowned the girl by holding down her head in a pail of water.<ref name="john9294">John (1989), 92–94.</ref> Finally, Lim used his electro-shock therapy device to "make doubly sure that she was dead".<ref>John (1989), 94.</ref> They stuffed her body in a bag and dumped it near the lift at Block 11.<ref name="john9294" />
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