Here are two real-life stories which are adopted from novels.

1. A Staged Kidnap
A 15-year-old boy, Danny ganged up with his friend, Andy to cheat his father of $100,000. They plotted the whole thing by faking a kidnap.

Andy, as the kidnapper, called Danny's father and told him that Danny was with him and demanded a ransom of $100,000. After making the call, the 2 boys found that $100,000 and they decided to lower the amount. After receiving the call, Danny's father filed a police report.

The next day, Andy made a second call to confirm the location and amount. This time, they lowered the amount to $10,000. Danny and Andy thought that they were going to be rich soon but little did they know that the police have tracked them down.

2. Juvenile Murder
The youngest criminal in Singapore is Moorthy, a 12-year-old boy. At then, he commanded a gang. One day, he decided to use his gang to rob a 15-year-old newsvendor, Jega.

On one fateful night, one of Moorthy's boys told Jega that they had important news for him and they asked Jega to meet him at the alley behind the newsstand after work. After knocking off from work, Jega headed towards the alley. When he arrived, a group of 11 boys pounced on him and robbed him of $20. Though outnumbered, Jega chased them but the boys managed to hop into a taxi and off they went.

The next night, 2 of the boys came back for Jega again. Jega asked for his money to be returned, but the boys refused and Jega threatened to report them to the police. With this, the 2 boys became frightened and they reported this to Moorthy, who hatched a plan to solve the matter. He went to the Chinese sinseh and asked for 4 sleeping pills. He planned to give this to Jega but tablets for heatiness were prescribed instead.

That night, Moorthy tricked Jega into meeting him at a coffee shop, saying that he would return him his money. Jega drank the doped coffee but nothing happened after a long time, so Moorthy told him to come with him to the train station to get his money.

At the station, the gang members beat Jega to a pulp to teach him a lesson for questioning their authority in the public, but unfortunately, they were too harsh and they killed him. Trying to get away scott-free, they threw the body onto the railway tracks to make people think that he fell onto the railway accidentally.

However, Moorthy and his gang were caught by the police in the end and put into the boys' home as they were below 18.