Missing engineer feared murdered

Missing engineer feared murdered

SINGAPORE (AFP): Police were yesterday investigating whether human body parts found in the sea here over the last week were those of a South African engineer who went missing after a shopping trip in Singapore.

Parts of a decomposed body have been recovered from the sea off Singapore's Clifford Pier since March 13, police said, as local newspapers linked the grisly find to Gerard George Lowe, a chemical engineer with South African Breweries.

Lowe, 32, was believed to have arrived in Singapore on March 8 for a shopping holiday and was due to have returned home on March 11, it said.

The Straits Times daily reported that a boatman found a pair of legs, severed at the knee, inside a plastic bag sealed with blue underwear, on March 13.