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2 jailed for entering into sham marriage
K.C. Vijayan
Monday, Oct 5, 2015
A hawker's assistant and a Chinese national who entered into a sham marriage, for which the former was paid $3,000, were each jailed for six months after being convicted in the district court.
Cheng Yew Kwang, 48 and now unemployed, and Chen Yanjie, 40, an accounts analyst, were also given an additional six weeks each over several charges in relation to the Immigration Act. Both are appealing the conviction and sentence.
District Judge Salina Ishak, in judgment grounds released last week, wrote: " In my view, sham marriages are difficult to detect as it would not be feasible for the authority to go behind every marriage certificate to ascertain whether a couple is in a true marital relationship."
She added that the same applied to Visit Pass applications, given the high volume of foreigners who enter Singapore for various purposes.
The judge said it was "fortuitous" that Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers detected the sham marriage through vigilance, pointing out the extreme difficulty "when the parties take steps to conceal the offence as well as portray a picture of genuine marital bliss".
A dozen such sham marriage cases had been dealt with by the State Courts in the 11 months till June, involving Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian spouses, she noted.
Cheng had admitted in a statement that he was paid $3,000 by one " Ah Bak " to enter into the marriage of convenience with Chen solemnised in December 2012 in a Joo Chiat Road restaurant. No family member was there. As her spouse, Cheng served as her sponsor when she applied and was allowed to enter Singapore on a Visit Pass thrice in 2013.
She wrote Cheng's Ang Mo Kio address as her residence on the application. When probed, Cheng admitted that she did not live there. He was told by " Ah Bak" to put her clothes in his bedroom and to give her a set of house keys. Cheng was also advised to take her to his flat and familiarise her with the area.
The judge found that the case involved deception of the Registry of Marriages and ICA by the couple. The couple had used the fake marriage to allow her to remain in Singapore. Chen had also supplied a false address to enter Singapore.
The judge rejected Chen's claims that she had known the groom since 2012, expressing disbelief at photos produced as proof of an alleged wedding dinner. Noting a Singapore flag in the background, she said it was unlikely that coffee shops would display the flag in January.
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25-year-old man jailed for taking part in group attack that left another man dead
Raja Arul was jailed for three years and six months on Monday, Oct 5, 2015. PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
Published Published 5 October 2015
Amir Hussain
SINGAPORE - A 25-year-old man was jailed for three years and six months on Monday for taking part in group attack on New Year's Day two years ago that led to the death of a 28-year-old man.
Raja Arul, a work pass holder working as a pipe fitter at the time, pleaded guilty to one charge of rioting.
He was part of a group of seven who had attacked another group of the same size in Jurong Lake Park on Dec 31, 2012. All are Indian nationals.
The court heard that at about 10pm on Dec 31, mechanical technician Boobalan Palanikumar, 28, arrived at a pavilion in the park with his friends to celebrate the new year.
Eventually, the first group became drunk and some of the men started to shout Tamil vulgarities, but directed at no one in particular.Raja and his friends were also there for the same purpose.
The second group, annoyed with the first, moved away from them but stayed within the pavilion as it was raining.
Sometime after midnight, unhappy with Raja's group for staring at them, one of Boobalan's friends confronted the second group.
The two groups then separated and left the pavilion. But, offended by vulgarities used by the Boobalan's group, one of Raja's friends suggested beating them up.
Five of the men armed themselves by breaking long wooden pole supports from tree saplings in the garden.
The men, including Raja, who was not armed, then ran towards the other group and started to hit them.
Boobalan, who was lying on the ground as he was drunk, was struck on his head and body.
The attack lasted for about a minute. An eyewitness called the police.
When officers arrived at 1.16am, they found four men lying in different locations in the park with various injuries.
Boobalan was found motionless and bleeding profusely from a head wound.
He was deeply comatose when he arrived in hospital, with extensive skull fractures and a very swollen brain. He died the next day.
One of his friends suffered fractures to his eye socket and frontal sinus, while another had a dislocated joint between the two bones of the forearm.
Two other friends had lacerations to their skulls. Another two managed to escape injury.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Lim How Khang urged the court on Monday to impose a four year jail term for Raja, with five strokes of the cane.
But Raja's lawyer James Selvaraj called for a jail term of not more than three years, with no caning. He noted that the attack was not premeditated, and that Raja's role in the attack was minor as he had only pushed a man down.
District Judge Jasvender Kaur agreed that caning was not appropriate.
Raja's jail sentence was backdated to Jan, 3, 2013, when he was first charged in court.
Raja and four of the other alleged attackers were originally charged with murder, but later had their charges amended.
The four, aged between 28 and 34, now face charges of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons, and voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons.
Their case will be heard at a later date. If convicted, they face up to life imprisonment and caning.
Another two suspects involved in the attack left Singapore on Jan 4, 2013, and have remained at-large.
For rioting, Raja could have been jailed for seven years and caned.
Jailed 3 1/2 years over fatal attack on compatriot
Published Oct 6, 2015, 5:00 am SGT
Indian national took part in assault on victim's group in Jurong Lake Park
Amir Hussain
A night of festivity for two groups of foreign workers took a tragic turn when one group turned violent and, armed with weapons, attacked the other group, inflicting fatal wounds on one man.
The victim, Mr Boobalan Palanikumar, 28, died in hospital a day after the assault on Dec 31, 2012, in Jurong Lake Park. It had left him deeply comatose with extensive skull fractures and a swollen brain.
Yesterday, Raja Arul, 25, was jailed for three years and six months for his role in the unlawful assembly. His group had the intent to cause grievous hurt to seven people, including Mr Boobalan.
The court heard that at about 10pm on Dec 31, Mr Boobalan, a mechanical technician, arrived at a pavilion in the park with his friends.
Raja, a pipe fitter at the time, arrived at the park at about the same time with his friends.
The men are all Indian nationals.
As the night went on, Mr Boobalan's group got drunk. Some of them began shouting Tamil vulgarities, but these were directed at no one.
The second group, annoyed with the first, moved away from them but stayed within the pavilion.
Some time after midnight, one of Mr Boobalan's friends confronted Raja's group for staring at them. The two groups then separated and left the pavilion.
But, offended by the vulgarities used by Mr Boobalan's group, one of Raja's friends suggested beating up the other group. Five of the men then armed themselves by breaking off long wooden-pole supports from tree saplings in the garden.
The men, including an unarmed Raja, ran towards the other group. Mr Boobalan, who was lying drunk on the ground, was struck on his head and body. The assault lasted for about a minute.
When police officers arrived at 1.16am, they found some men lying at different locations in the park with various injuries.
Mr Boobalan was found motionless and bleeding profusely from a head wound. One of his friends had fractures to his eye socket and frontal sinus, while another had a dislocated joint in a forearm.
Two other men had lacerations to their skulls. Another two managed to escape injury.
Raja, who yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of rioting, had his jail sentence backdated to Jan 3, 2013, when he was first charged.
He and four others had originally been charged with murder, but later had their charges reduced.
The four men, aged between 28 and 34, face charges of voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapons, and voluntarily causing grievous hurt with dangerous weapons.
Their cases will be heard at a later date. If convicted, they face up to life imprisonment and caning.
Another two suspects involved in the attack fled Singapore on Jan 4, 2013. They remain at large.
For rioting, Raja could have been jailed for seven years and caned.
Foreign worker jailed for 8 months for molesting train commuter
A foreign worker who molested a woman on board an MRT train was sentenced to eight months' jail on Thursday (Sept 17).
Islam Md Mohidul, 28, admitted touching the 25-year-old woman in the train, which was going towards City Hall, at about 7.30am on June 26 this year.
A court heard that Islam, who was employed at a worksite near City Hall MRT station, boarded the train at Kranji MRT station . The victim boarded at Sembawang.
She later sat on Islam's right and began reading some documents. Shortly after, she fell asleep.
Islam was attracted to her and decided to take advantage of her falling asleep. As there were then many commuters, he pretended to cross both his arms over his chest, when he had, in fact, slipped his left hand under his right elbow so that he could surreptitiously reach over to the victim's left breast.
He molested her. When she did not wake up, he became bolder and continued to rub her more forcefully, even moving on to her nipple to rub it for a few seconds.
The victim woke up and he quickly retracted his hand. She shouted and told him off for touching her. He apologised, and claimed it was an accident.
The angry victim then used her mobile phone to take his photograph. She later made a police report. Islam was arrested in an ambush at Kranji station on July 15.
He initially feigned ignorance but eventually admitted to the offence. In mitigation, he said he was remorseful and promised not to offend again.
District Judge Ng Peng Hong said a heavy sentence had to be meted out, and the court had to send a strong signal to people like him that such behaviour on public transport, especially in MRT trains, could not be tolerated.
Islam, whose sentence was backdated to Aug 27, could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or received any combination of these punishments.
Pilot fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $110 to teen he punched
Published Oct 12, 2015, 4:51 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - A budget airline pilot was fined $5,000 on Monday for punching a teenage student on his nose and on the back of his head after a dispute.
Briton Joshua Powell Koke, 24, was also ordered to pay $110 compensation to the 18-year-old male victim.
He admitted to causing hurt to the victim at OneRaffles Place Building at about 3.30am on Sept 19 this year.
Koke had just finished a quarter bottle of vodka at 1-Altitude Bar at the building.
Investigations showed that the victim and his friends were blocking the path of Koke and his friend on the stairs while they were en route to taking the service lift.
The victim and his eight friends, including three women, were moving slowly due to the women wearing high heels.
Koke then verbally abused the group. A dispute ensured, and Koke confronted the victim aggressively.
The victim and his friends managed to disengage Koke and left the premises by taking a separate lift to the ground floor.
On the ground floor, Koke chancd upon the group again.
Spoiling for a fight, Koke took off his shirt and confronted the victim. He punched the victim on his nose, followed by another punch on the head when the victim was defenceless and bent over.
Koke's friend tried to restrain him, but to no avail.
Shortly after, Koke also pushed away one of the victim's friends who tried to intervene.
The victim sought treatment for his nose bleed at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was given a one day outpatient medical leave.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Clement Yong, who did not ask for a jail sentence, highlighted aggravating factors such as Koke's intoxication and that he was the aggressor.
Koke's lawyer Michael Lee said his client had apologised to the victim and his friends on the day itself. He also said Koke has been put to much mental distress as the proceedings have resulted in his potential termination by his employer Jetstar.
Koke could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to $5,000 for causing hurt.
Motorist fined $5,000 for lying to police that $250,000 was stolen from his car
Muhammad Aslam was fined $5,000 for lying to police that $250,000 in cash had been stolen from the glove box of his car.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Published 13 October 2015
SINGAPORE - A man who claimed to police that $250,000 in cash had been stolen from the glove box of his car, then later admitted he had gambled it away was fined $5,000 on Tuesday (Oct 13).
Muhammad Aslam, 40, a Pakistani and Singapore permanent resident, pleaded guilty to providing false information to police for which he was fined the maximum amount.
Two other charges were taken into consideration.
On July 21 at about 3.30pm, Aslam reported that the cash was missing from his car, which he parked at Block 227 Tampines Street 23 earlier that day at about 1am. He added that he suspected painters who were working nearby.
The accused, who is self-employed, later told officers that his car had been covered by a canvas sheet for protection as painting works were being carried out in the vicinity.
He discovered that the driver's side window had been smashed when he returned to his car at about 2pm. Police seized the canvas sheet and a small rock found on the ground.
The next day at about 1.30pm, Aslam arrived at Bedok Police Division for a further interview, where he maintained his cash had been stolen. However, when he was interviewed again later that day at about 7pm, he admitted lodging a false police report.
The court heard that he felt stressed about his divorce three years earlier and that he had resorted to gambling at the Marina Bay Sands casino.
Over a period of four days in July, the accused gambled about $250,000 of his personal savings and earnings from his business. At a loss of how to account for the huge monetary loss to his family and suppliers, he then decided to make the false report.
Further investigations revealed that the accused had driven his vehicle to the vicinity of Tampines Avenue 1, where he used a metal hook to smash the driver's side window about two to three times to give the impression of forced entry of his vehicle.
Noting that it took less than 24 hours for Aslam to admit that he had made a false report, deputy public prosecutor Sean Lee did not press for a jail term but asked the court for a high fine of at least $4,000.
In mitigation, defence lawyer Johan Ismail added that his client's actions were a result of the "sheer embarrassment" he felt to his family.
However, the judge said that Aslam's "foolishness" had cause extensive police resources to be wasted.
Anyone convicted of providing false information to a public servant may face a jail term of up to a year, a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
Briton jailed two months for assaulting cabby and ordered to pay compensation
Briton James O'Kane was jailed for two months for punching cabby Kamis Ismail and biting the top of his head.
Published 13 October 2015
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - A Briton on social visit here was jailed for two months on Tuesday (Oct 13) for punching and biting a taxi driver.
James O'Kane, 61, a firefighter for 27 years in Britain, was also ordered to pay compensation of $1,250 to the victim for his medical bills and loss of income for three days.
He admitted hurting Mr Kamis Ismail in the taxi at the taxi stand near Tan Tye Place at 5.21am on Sept 19. He punched the 52-year-old on the face several times and also bit the top part of his head.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Yang Ziliang said O'Kane and his son had approached Mr Kamis' taxi at the stand that day. The 34-year-old son spoke to the cabby through the partially wound down left passenger window.
After Mr Kamis agreed to take them to Sophia Road, O'Kane opened the left rear passenger door while his son intended to sit in front.
As the son opened the left passenger door, he placed his right hand on the door and his fingers became caught between the glass panel of the window and the frame of the door as the window was being wound up.
He then punched the window a few times with his left fist, shattering the glass completely, to release the pressure on his fingers.
When O'Kane asked what happened, the son replied that the victim had hurt his finger. O'Kane went to the front and entered the taxi through the open left front passenger door. He then used his hand to headlock the victim and punched him several times on the face.
The victim tried to block the blows. O'Kane bit the top part of the victim's head. Then someone came and pulled the victim out of the taxi.
O'Kane continued behaving aggressively and pushed the victim at least twice before passers-by intervened and separated the two. The victim flagged down a police patrol vehicle passing by.
He sought treatment at Changi General Hospital and was given three days' medical leave for injuries on his head and arms.
Investigations showed that father and son had been drinking in a bar in Clarke Quay and had consumed some alcohol. The son, who voluntarily paid about $480 to ComfortDelGro, was issued a stern warning for mischief last Friday.
O'Kane, who was unrepresented, apologised for his actions, saying it was out of character. He told the court that he had been a fireman for over 27 years in Britain and had received many commendations. He also apologised to his daughter, who was in court, for bringing this to her door, and to the taxi driver for the harm caused to him.
Mr Kamis said in his victim impact statement that after the incident, he now thinks twice about picking up Caucasian passengers, and avoids them. He said he also felt sad that this had happened and his wife now worries about him when he goes to work.
O'Kane could have been jailed for up to two years and fined up to $5,000.
2 Russian nationals jailed for smuggling 206 turtles through Singapore
Photo: Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015
SINGAPORE - Two Russian nationals were each sentenced to 15 months in jail today for smuggling 206 endangered turtles through Singapore in July.
Their sentences were backdated to July 9, when they were arrested at Changi Airport.
The men had arrived in Singapore on a flight from Bangladesh, and were on transit to Surabaya, Indonesia.
While they were passing through, a Certis CISCO aviation security officer detected four luggage bags stuffed with live turtles.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) found a total of 206 black pond turtles (Geoclemys hamiltonii), a critically endangered species protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), in the bags.
The turtles are worth around $90,000 and are believed to be in high demand in the exotic pet trade.
Investigations showed that the two men, Pavlychev Maksim, 38, and Radkov Aleksei, 34, were approached by a friend to deliver the turtles to Indonesia.
The bags were lined with diapers and cloth to absorb waste excreted by the turtles.
The turtles were found to be dehydrated and in poor condition. To date, 27 have since died or had to be put down for welfare reasons.
The remaining turtles are being cared for by Wildlife Reserves Singapore.
"The Singapore Government has zero tolerance on the use of Singapore as a conduit to smuggle endangered species and their parts and products," Ms Lye Fong Keng, deputy director of Quarantine & Inspection Group (Wildlife Section) at AVA said.
"We will not hesitate to take harsh enforcement actions against any person or company that smuggles wildlife through Singapore," she added.
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Man gets 20 years for raping niece
Judith Tan
Thursday, Oct 15, 2015
He was her uncle but became her father figure after her dad died in 2003.
She was then 11 and started calling him "appa" (father in Tamil).
On Feb 25, 2005, he sexually assaulted her.
She was just 12.
More than a year later, he raped her.
Last Tuesday, the 51-year-old Malaysian was sentenced to 20 years' jail. No caning was imposed as he is above 50 years old.
The man, a former construction firm supervisor, was convicted on six charges - of raping, molesting and having oral sex with the young girl between 2005 and 2008.
He cannot be identified to protect the girl's identity.
The court heard that the girl and her uncle met very often and spoke on the phone almost daily, sometimes about sexual matters.
He started molesting her by touching her breasts and private parts even before Feb 25, 2005 - the day when he forced her to have oral sex.
He even told her that he would be upset if she failed to keep these acts a secret as she would not be a good girl.
The court was told the victim remembered the assault clearly because it was on the day her mother was taken seriously ill and warded in the intensive care unit of Changi General Hospital after vomiting blood.
Repeated assault
The girl, who was in school, was told to go home, where her uncle was waiting to take her to the hospital.
When the victim got to her flat in the east, where she, her elder sister and their mother were living then, the uncle was watching pornography on his mobile phone.
He then removed the young girl's clothes and assaulted her with oral sex, only stopping when his wife called.
The uncle assaulted her again that same night by molesting her after they returned from the hospital.
It was in June 2006 that he raped her. She was only 14.
The rape happened in the uncle's bedroom in his Hougang flat. The victim believed him when he said that it was normal.
The court heard that she complied because he was her "appa" and she thought that she had to listen to him or she would not be a good girl.
The uncle sexually assaulted her two more times - once in 2006 and again in 2008.
It was not until March 2011, when the victim was placed on probation for theft, that she told her probation officer of the attacks. But when told to make a police report, the girl hesitated.
She eventually reported the attacks to the police a month later.
In his defence, the man said he and the girl had arrived at a mutual understanding that they wanted a sexual relationship, and that all the sex acts were consensual.
He added that the accusation of sexual assault came up after a quarrel in early May 2011 over money and the victim threatened to shame her uncle's family.
'Inconsistent'
In sentencing, Justice Tay Yong Kwang said he believed the victim trusted her uncle and obeyed his instructions, and when he assured her that the sexual acts were normal, she had no reason to doubt him.
As for the quarrel, Justice Tay said the girl had told her probation officer of the assault a month before that.
"The evidence did not support a picture of a vengeful and purposeful decision to lodge the complaint... Given the defence's own position that he remained on good terms with the victim until 2011, she would not have treated her uncle as collateral damage and sought to put him in prison with false allegations," Justice Tay wrote in his judgement.
Calling the defence's evidence "inconsistent" and saying that it "lacked credibility", he meted out the 20-year sentence.
The man has appealed against his punishment.
Man in kidnap and online sales scam gets 17 months' jail
Published Oct 15, 2015, 1:20 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - An unemployed man, who cheated his victims of more than $30,000 in an online scam, was jailed for 17 months on Thursday .
Dwight T. Soriano, 30, also conned his ex-girlfriend into believing that he had been held captive and needed money to be paid for his release. He duped her into transferring $10,000 to his bank account.
He pleaded guilty last week to 19 o f 70 charges. The total amount involved in all the charges is $39,386.
Thirty-four victims were deceived into transferring money to his bank accounts or paying him cash for limited-edition G Shock watches, Gundam watches or figurines which he claimed he had for sale.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Charis Low told the court that Soriano left Singapore for Thailand in May 2013. While in Hat Yai in August that year, he accessed M1's Message Centre at an internet cafe.
Purporting to be a kidnapper, he sent text messages to Ms Wong Yee Poh's mobile phone stating that he had been kidnapped and demanded ransom money for his release.
He told the her to deposit the ransom money into his POSB bank account . Each time she did that, Soriano - pretending to be the kidnapper - would send text messages to her claiming that he had been released but then recaptured.
He would then send her more text messages demanding further payments for his release.
Ms Wong lodged a police report on Dec 3 that year that she had transferred money to Soriano as he had purportedly been kidnapped.
Soriano was arrested at Changi Airport on July 15 last year.
He was on police bail pending further investigation when he committed a series of Internet sales scams.
Investigations showed that he had devised a scam to cheat people into transferring money to his bank accounts.
From August 2014 to March this year, he posted advertisements on websites and applications such as www.gumtree.com and www.fuckwarezone.com and Carousell, claiming to have various items such as Gundam figurines and G-Shock watches for sale.
He used a variety of Carousell accounts to perpetuate the scam and avoid detection.
Subsequently, when his OCBC Bank account was frozen by the bank as police reports had been lodged, he started using the bank accounts of seven friends, one of whom lent him two accounts. He told them that his own bank account had been frozen and he needed to receive his salary from his employer or money from other friends.
Soriano, who made partial restitution of $6,303, could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined on each charge.
Australian jailed 1 week for trespass on Sky Train tracks; fined for mischief and being drunk
Kevin Patrick Flynn, 36, was jailed for one week on Thursday (Oct 15) for criminal trespass. ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Published 15 October 2015
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - Drunk after downing eight glasses of whisky with soda, an Australian transiting at Changi Airport climbed onto the sky train track at Terminal 3.
Kevin Patrick Flynn, 36, had earlier also clambered onto the metal zinc roof of a construction site behind Crowne Plaza Hotel at about 9.30pm on July 17.
He was jailed for one week on Thursday (Oct 15) for criminal trespass. He was fined $1,000 for being drunk and fined another $500 for breaking a fire hose reel glass panel worth $10 that evening.
The delivery driver from Darwin, Australia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday and had another charge of mischief taken into consideration during his sentencing.
Investigations showed that at the service road behind Crowne Plaza Hotel near Terminal 3, Changi Airport, he climbed onto the sky train tracks with intent to annoy Changi Airport Group.
He was drunk while running around shouting on the sky train tracks between Terminal 3 and Terminal 1, the court heard.
His presence and actions caused the sky train services to be stopped for 11 minutes for his safety.
Services were disrupted again for half an hour the next day to retrieve his hand-carry bag which he had left behind on the tracks.
He had also punched a fire hose glass panel belonging to CAG, causing it to break.
His lawyer S.S. Dhillon said in mitigation that Flynn was on a 15-hour transit to Cebu on July 16 when he asked a taxi driver to take him to the nearest pub.
But he was taken to Orchard Towers where an unknown man struck up a conversation with him at Top 5, a pub.
Counsel said Flynn took eight glasses of liquor and blacked out. He woke up in a taxi and realised he had been beaten up and his money was missing.
Mr Dhillon said his client might have been drugged, leading him to act in a bizarre and irrational manner. He said Flynn, who has a one-and a-half-year-old son with his girlfriend in the Philippines, had no reason to come to Singapore on transit and go on a rampage.
Man jailed 5 weeks for possession of airsoft pistol
Yang Ziyi was sentenced to five weeks in jail for the unauthorised possession of an airsoft pistol.
Published 15 October 2015
Jasmine Osada
SINGAPORE - A man who brandished an airsoft pistol at local food court earlier this year, was on Thursday (Oct 15) sentenced to five weeks in jail for the unauthorised possession of the controlled item.
Yang Ziyi, 26, who purchased the airsoft pistol for $350 through a broker, brought it to the Koufu food court at Pioneer Mall on June 27 this year.
While intoxicated, he approached some food court patrons and showed them the airsoft pistol and later pointed it into the air before tucking it into his shorts. His actions caused alarm and prompted one of the onlookers to alert the police.
Police later found Yang near the mall and the gun was discovered after a frisk search. A raid of Yang's flat, at Block 836 Jurong West Street 81, uncovered a small packet of 6mm plastic pellets.
Yang admitted that the airsoft pistol belonged to him, and that the pellets were meant for use as ammunition.
Another charge of using a replica samurai sword with a 1m long blade to intimidate a victim, was taken into consideration during the sentencing.
Yang could have been fined up to $5,000 and jailed up to three years for the unauthorised possession of the airsoft pistol.
Airsoft is a sport in which participants eliminate opponents by shooting at each other with spherical non-metallic pellets using replica firearms called airsoft guns. Most of these guns are the exact copies of the actual guns.
Although the pellets can cause pain, they generally do not inflict serious injuries.
Trio in Pandan Loop case have murder charge amended to causing grievous hurt
Indian nationals Chellappan Sanker (left) and Karthikeyan Prabakaran (right) with a CID officer on Aug 30, 2014. PHOTO: ST FILE
Published Oct 20, 2015, 11:20 am SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - Three Indian nationals accused originally of murdering their compatriot at Pandan Loop now each face an amended charge of causing grievous hurt.
Karthikeyan Prabakaran, 28, Thiruppathi Veerapperumal, 27, and Chellappan Sankar, 29, are alleged to have grievously hurt technician Murugaiya Suresh Kumar in the industrial estate along the exit road leading to West Coast Highway between 10.10pm and 10.33pm on Aug 23 last year.
They allegedly hit the 26-year-old on the head with iron rods multiple times together with Ananthan Seeralan, 25, who is on the run.
Mr Kumar was an employee of Poly NDT, which carries out testing and inspections of parts of ships, such as hulls. Police found him lying motionless on the ground and he was pronounced dead at about 10.50pm that day.
No bail was offered to the trio on Tuesday (Oct 20).
A pre-trial conference is scheduled for Nov 9.
If convicted, they could be jailed for up to 15 years and liable to fine or caning.
Maid gives birth to dead baby, hides body in drawer at employer's house
The woman was arrested for concealment of birth by secret disposal of a dead body. PHOTO: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
Published 20 October 2015
Lee Min Kok
SINGAPORE - A 33-year-old maid who gave birth to a dead baby boy and kept the body in a drawer at her employer's house has been arrested.
The incident occurred on Monday (Oct 19) afternoon at a two-storey house along Lorong Ong Lye in Serangoon.
According to Shin Min Daily News, the woman, said to be a maid from Indonesia, had complained to her employers that she was not feeling well.
She was taken to a clinic and subsequently referred to KK Women's and Children's Hospital for tests, where a doctor suspected that she had recently given birth.
Upon further questioning, the woman admitted to delivering a baby boy who died on birth and hiding the body in a drawer in a second-floor room at her employers' house.
When contacted, a police spokesman said it was alerted to the incident at 1.22pm and discovered the baby's body in the drawer.
The baby was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
The spokesman said the woman was arrested for concealment of birth by secret disposal of a dead body.
The Straits Times understands that the baby was born premature at five months old.
Shin Min said the woman has been working for the family - an elderly couple and their daughter, her husband and her 11-year-old son - for more than a year. According to the report, the maid is married with two sons.
Stall assistant jailed 24 weeks for taking upskirt photos
Malaysian bubble tea shop stall assistant Teo Wei Chek, 20, had admitted to 22 of 84 charges of intruding into the privacy of a woman.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Published 23 October 2015
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - A serial offender, who prowled Yishun housing estate looking for women to take upskirt photographs of, was jailed for 24 weeks on Friday for insulting their modesty.
Malaysian bubble tea shop stall assistant Teo Wei Chek, 20, had admitted to 22 of 84 charges of intruding into the privacy of a woman by placing his mobile camera phone below the woman's skirt and taking photographs.
He committed the offences at the overhead bridge near the Yishun Shell station, HDB staircases , in lifts and on escalators between February and May 1 this year.
The court heard earlier that a member of the public called the police on May 1 this year, saying he had witnessed a man chasing a schoolgirl and taking an upskirt photo of her the day before. He told police to check the man at the void deck of Block 134 Yishun Street 11.
Police came and detained Teo. They checked his mobile phone and found upskirt photographs. Teo then admitted that he had taken many women's upskirt' photographs over the past few months.
He would spot his victims and would often follow them to take the photographs.
At times, he would follow his victims from the void deck into the lift to do so.
He also targeted a number of primary school students in school uniform.
He would approach these girls and tell them that he wished to take photos of their shoes.
When the girls agreed, he would tell them to turn around, and quickly place his cellphone below their skirts.
In another case on Thursday, Goh Eh Chun, a 34-year-old drafter, was sentenced to six weeks' jail after he admitted to three counts of insulting modesty by using his iPhone to film upskirt videos of women.
The court heard that on May 11 last year, he stood behind a 21-year-old woman, who was wearing a short skirt on the escalator of Farrer Park MRT station, and took a video of her underwear without her knowledge.
A 32-year-old sales assistant saw him checking his phone as he reached the top of the escalator. He detained Goh and approached security officers for help.
Goh admitted he had been filming upskirt videos since 2013. Eight other similar charges were considered during his sentencing.
The maximum punishment for the offence is one year's jail and a fine.
Thief repays goodwill with greed
Photo: Wanbao
Linette Heng
Monday, Oct 26, 2015
Businesswoman Zoe Heng watched with relief as her former employee was taken away by plainclothes police officers on Monday.
Her former shop assistant, Ms Liu Meiqi, 33, had allegedly stolen cash and clothes worth $15,000 from her shop in The Central shopping mall at Clarke Quay.
After she fired Ms Liu in August, Ms Heng had to deal with several people looking for her at the store and claiming that she owed them money.
Ms Heng, 43, who owns clothes shop Bless, told The New Paper yesterday that the police had contacted her to arrange a meeting at her shop with Ms Liu. They arrested Ms Liu shortly after she arrived.
Handcuffs
Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao reported yesterday that the police took Ms Liu away in handcuffs on Monday. They later took her to her terrace house in Dorset Road to gather evidence.
The arrest closes an unusual chapter in Ms Heng's life. Her patience and goodwill had been tested over the past nine months as she gave Ms Liu numerous chances to turn over a new leaf.
Ms Liu was hired as a part-timer in February and confessed to Ms Heng a few weeks later that she had a criminal record.
Ms Heng said: "I knew about her past but I was really soft-hearted and thought that everyone deserves a second chance.
"She told me her sob story and said that I was the only one who would be willing to help her."
In March, Ms Liu was sentenced to 50 days' jail after she could not pay the fines for 10 counts of evading taxi fares.
After she was released early for good behaviour in mid-April, Ms Liu smooth-talked Ms Heng into hiring her again.
Ms Heng recalled: "She came to my shop right after she was released, looking frail. She told me that she would change and asked me for another chance."
On a gut feeling, Ms Heng took precautions and installed a closed-circuit television camera in her shop.
"Many people warned me not to hire her again but I thought it would be fine since I had the CCTV," she said.
Ms Liu worked at the shop from 5pm to 9pm and was paid $6 an hour.
In June, Ms Heng noticed that sales were poor and checked the CCTV footage. She was upset to find that Ms Liu had been stealing cash and clothes from the shop.
Ms Heng said: "Although the shop accepted Nets and credit cards, Ms Liu would tell customers that the machines were not working and ask for cash.
"I also noticed that she would leave the shop wearing new outfits and returned without them."
But Ms Heng still felt compassionate enough to not want to sack her.
When she confronted Ms Liu, she promised to return the money and pay for the clothes, telling her boss to take a cut from her salary.
Sorry
Ms Heng said: "She sent me messages, apologising and saying that she didn't want to go back to jail. I guess I felt sorry for her."
She finally made a police report on Oct 3 after realising that many others could have been cheated by Ms Liu.
Ms Heng said: "People would come to my shop, saying that Ms Liu owed them money, usually about $50.
"It's always the same story. She would tell them that she needed the money urgently but her ATM card was stuck in the machine. She would tell them to look for her at my shop to get their money back.
"She has been making use of the kindness of so many people. I cannot give her another chance."
Police confirmed that they are investigating.
Says she lost ATM card, asks for $50
Beautician Kenneth Lee, 30, was busy with a client when Ms Liu Meiqi walked into his shop at Clarke Quay Central shopping mall in late August.
She asked about a facial package and left the shop after making an appointment to come back the next day.
But five minutes later, Ms Liu returned, looking agitated.
Mr Lee told The New Paper: "She told me that she had lost her ATM card and needed to borrow $50 from me.
"She looked so sincere and said she needed the money to pay for food that she had bought for her children at a stall downstairs."
Payback
Ms Liu promised to pay back the money when she returned the next day. She also pointed to a clothes shop at the mall - visible from Mr Lee's shop - saying that she worked there.
Mr Lee said: "I was so busy that I didn't think too much about it and just passed her the money. Obviously, she didn't return the next day.
"When I asked the boss of the clothes shop a few days later, I found out that I was not the first one to have been cheated."
Jailed for dodging taxi fares
Between October 2013 and March last year, Ms Liu Meiqi dodged having to pay 10 taxi fares totalling $133. The fares ranged from $6 to $35.
Her ruse was often the same - she would try to pay with her credit card but the transactions would fail.
Ms Liu then told the cabby that she didn't have cash and asked for their bank account number, promising to transfer the money for the fare.
Ignored
She also gave them her identity card details and contact number but later ignored their calls.
In March this year, Ms Liu was fined $12,000, or 50 days' jail, for 10 counts of failing to pay the fares.
Since she could not pay the fine, she went to jail but was let out early for good behaviour.
She had a similar conviction in 2013 when she was fined $2,400 for failing to pay four taxi drivers.
She could have been fined up to $2,000 per charge.
Two men arrested for theft of casino chips worth $60,000
Sunday, Oct 25, 2015
SINGAPORE - Two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their suspected involvement in a case of theft of casino chips from the casino at Marina Bay Sands (MBS).
Police were first alerted to the incident on Oct 24, and officers from the Casino Crime Investigation Branch (CCIB) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) were on scene to arrest the two men, aged 36 and 40.
The two suspects are believed to have committed theft of casino chips worth close to $60,000, the police said Sunday (Oct 25).
The two suspects will be charged in Court on Oct 26 for the offence of Theft under Section 379 of the Penal Code, Chapter 224. If convicted, they may be jailed for a term not exceeding three years or fine or to both.
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Jail term cut for woman who fled S'pore in 2002
Published Oct 27, 2015, 5:00 am SGT
Chinese national who entered S'pore using different identities gets 10-week sentence
Amir Hussain
A wealthy businesswoman from China who repeatedly entered Singapore using different identities over 12 years yesterday had her 16-week jail term reduced to 10.
Lin Lifen, 40, fled Singapore after being charged in 2002 with using a fake degree to apply for permanent residency.
Lin, who was married to a permanent resident from Canada, first returned as Shuting Lin Grayston using a Canadian passport. Later, she used a Central African Republic diplomatic passport issued under the name Charlize Lin.
Each time, the Chinese national lied in arrival forms that she had never used a passport under a different name to enter Singapore.
In March last year, she was detained at Changi Airport after immigration officers noticed irregularities in her Central African Republic diplomatic passport.
She pleaded guilty to one count of using a forged degree and three counts of making a false declaration earlier this year. Four other false declaration charges were taken into consideration.
After she was sentenced, Lin appealed against the 16-week jail term sought by prosecutors and meted out by District Judge Shawn Ho.
In lowering her prison term to 10 weeks yesterday, Judge of Appeal Chao Hick Tin said he disagreed with the district judge's finding that Lin's main reason for coming back to Singapore was for financial profit, and not to see her son.
Lin, who has a string of business interests like diamond mining, oil exploration and spas, said the main draw in Singapore was her son.
But in letters sent by her lawyers to the authorities in 2013, Lin also said she wished to move all her business interests here, make Singapore the head office for her oil business and invest $2 million in an apartment. She said she wanted to make Singapore her permanent home, and to see her child, who lives with her former husband here. The couple separated in 2008.
Agreeing with arguments put forth by Lin's lawyer, Senior Counsel Davinder Singh, Justice Chao said: "In endeavouring to persuade the authorities to permit the appellant to return, it should not at all be surprising that her lawyers would opt to appeal primarily to the head rather than the heart by emphasising the economic benefit that she could bring to Singapore."
"Thus the stress placed on that economic aspect does not suggest that she did not also have a genuine desire to see her son," he said.
The judge also found that Lin's son was not a "mere afterthought". His 12th birthday was on the day after her last attempt to enter Singapore, on March 21 last year.
"While I cannot quite accept the proposition that a non-custodial sentence is invariably or even generally warranted where an offender makes false statements in disembarkation forms in the context of returning to Singapore for reasons of familial relationships, the court must still consider each case on its merits to determine whether it warrants the exercise of some compassion," said Justice Chao.
Between 1996 and 2000, Lin came to Singapore many times on a tourist pass. In 2000, she was issued a dependent's pass under her husband's sponsorship. Lin, who has primary school education, later got a fake bachelor's degree from the Foreign Economics and Trade University in Beijing, as she wanted to get PR status here.
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