Student fined $3,000 for theft and fabricating evidence

Student fined $3,000 for theft and fabricating evidence

Published on May 11, 2012
By Elena Chong

An aeronautical engineering student who had admitted to stealing boxes of drinks with his girlfriend from a storage room in a condominium was given a day's jail and fined $1,000 on Friday.

Jeremy Kuek Beng Kiat, 23, was given a concurrent one-day's jail and fined another $2,000 after admitting to forging two receipts to prove that he and Ong Shi Han, also 23, had paid for goods at Giant Tampines hypermarket and Guardian Health and Beauty last July.

The couple had admitted to stealing eight boxes of Pokka drinks, a sack of rice, a two-pin power plug and an extension socket at the Blue Horizon storage room in West Coast Crescent on Nov 13, 2011.

The court heard that Kuek and Ong, who lives in the condominium and is a law graduate, were leaving the condominium to buy food around midnight on Nov 12 when he noticed a gate covered with green canvas at the carpark.

Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.

"The court heard that Kuek and Ong, who lives in the condominium and is a law graduate, were leaving the condominium to buy food around midnight on Nov 12 when he noticed a gate covered with green canvas at the carpark."

so is Kuek a lawyer or Ong? or both?
is this the standard of ST journalism??

Study do much and do such stupid act.Will they have records?

Woman gets probation for stealing from condo storeroom
Posted: 15 June 2012 1326 hrs

Ong Shi Han

Jeremy Kuek Beng Kiat

SINGAPORE: A woman who was suffering from depression has been sentenced to 15 months' probation for stealing drinks and rice from a condominium storage room.

Ong Shi Han, a 23-year-old law graduate, stole eight boxes of Pokka drinks, a sack of rice and some electrical items - a two-pin power plug and an extension socket - from a storage room in Blue Horizon condominum in West Coast Crescent in November 2011.

The items were worth about S$450.

She committed the offence with her boyfriend, Jeremy Kuek Beng Kiat, also 23. Kuek, an aeronautical engineering student, was sentenced to a day's jail and fined S$3,000 in May.

In addition to stealing the items, Kuek also forged two receipts to prove that he and Ong had paid for the stolen goods at Giant Tampines hypermarket and Guardian Health and Beauty.

Ong was ordered by the district judge to attend psychiatric treatment to alleviate her depression. Noting that Ong's condition is the underlying cause of her behaviour, the judge also ordered Ong to comply with her medication regime.

Ong's parents, who were both in court, signed a S$6,000 bond to ensure her good behaviour.

After sentencing, Ong changed from a pink dress into a green top and black skirt and wore hair extensions to avoid being recognised.

-CNA/ac