Man sentenced to 20 months' jail for false police statement & other offences
Posted: 01 October 2012 1816 hrs
Larry Lim Liang Long, who was sentenced to 20 months' jail. (Photo: Singapore Police Force)
SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old man was sentenced to a total of 20 months' jail for offences that included giving a false statement to the police.
Larry Lim Liang Long pleaded guilty to two charges - one of furnishing a false statement to the police and another of providing false information during an investigation in March this year.
He was sentenced to 12 months' jail for each of the two charges.
The two sentences will run concurrently.
In March, Lim surrendered to the police but lied that he was part of a group of five men who attacked 18-year-old Wong Dao Jing.
The attack on 15 February 2003 at Lucky Chinatown Shopping Centre resulted in Wong's death.
Two of the accomplices in the attack, Teo Guan Kah and Toh Chun Siong, approached Lim for help.
Lim, who was on the run from the police for copyright infringement offences, helped to harbour Teo and Toh in a friend's apartment.
He also made arrangements for them to escape from Singapore and hired a private taxi to take them across the causeway.
Lim then met them in Malaysia and agreed to take the rap for another accomplice - nicknamed "Ka Juak" - involved in the attack.
But police investigations revealed that Lim was not able to furnish details about the case.
Lim's information also ran contrary to earlier police findings.
Lim then admitted that he was never involved in the group attack.
Of the five accomplices, Toh and Leong Soon Kheong, were sentenced in the High Court for culpable homicide.
Toh is serving a jail term of five and a half years while Leong is serving a jail term of seven years.
Teo died in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in 2007.
Two others, Sean Leong Hung Chu, and "Ka Juak" are still at large.
Lim also admitted to two other charges - leaving Singapore in February 2003 with a Malaysia-restricted passport that did not belong to him, as well as conspiring to sell and distribute pirated musical CDs and computer software programmes between July and December 2001.
He was given four months' jail for each of the two charges.
- CNA/xq
