SINGAPORE, June 27 — One-and-a-half years after he was charged with the murder of 19-year-old Felicia Teo Wei Ling who had gone missing in 2007, prosecutors today withdrew the capital charge against Ahmad Danial Mohamed Rafa’ee.

Today, Ahmad was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal for the murder charge.

This means that the 37-year-old, who last worked as a creative manager at gaming firm Razer, can still be prosecuted for the alleged offence in the future should new evidence emerge, for instance. The charge will be revived if that happens.

Ahmad has been remanded since his arrest in mid-December 2020 as murder is a non-bailable offence in Singapore.

He was offered bail of S$20,000 (RM63,566) today.

The Singaporean now faces six fresh charges of a less serious nature over Teo’s death, mostly under the 1985 revised edition of the Penal Code. He is accused of committing all these offences in common intention with Mr Ragil Putra Setia Sukmarahjana, 34.

These charges are:

• Two counts of fabricating false evidence