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Unemployed man jailed for drugging and stealing from 62-year-old victim
01 Apr 2013
An unemployed man who posed as a doctor and gave sleeping tablets to a woman before stealing her things was jailed for two years on Monday.
Oh Koon Shin, 52, had pleaded guilty to administering a stupefying drug to retiree Ching Sui Nai, 62, with the intent to steal her property amounting to $222 at Jurong Polyclinic at Jurong East Avenue 1 on Dec 29 last year.
A district court heard that Madam Ching was at the polyclinic to see a doctor when Oh approached her and said he was a specialist.
He gave her four blue coloured tablets and convinced her to take them. Oh approached her again when she was queuing to get her medication and offered to pay and collect the medication for her.
He then gave her another four pills. She felt drowsy after taking them. Oh was then seen rummaging through her bag and removing a ring from her finger. A polyclinic staff alerted her colleague about Oh behaving suspiciously.
A day before, there had been an incident where an elderly woman's necklace was stolen by a man after she was given two blue coloured pills to take. Oh was subsequently arrested.
District Judge Eddy Tham, who took a similar charge and one of fraudulent possession into consideration, said Oh administered the stupefying drug with no regard for the possible adverse consequences of the victims.
He said Oh had targeted victims who were elderly, and therefore, vulnerable. A deterrent sentence was called for to protect this group of people, he added.
For the full story, log on to The Straits Times Online.
SINGAPORE - By pretending to be a specialist at Jurong Polyclinic, he managed to convince a patient there to down eight blue tablets that turned out to be Diazepam, a stupefying drug.
Oh Koon Shin, 52, who is jobless, then tried to steal items belonging to Madam Ching Sui Nai, 62, when she became drowsy on Dec 29 last year.
The items, worth about $222, included a mobile phone and two bank books.
Oh was jailed for two years on Monday after pleading guilty to one count of administering the drug to the retiree to commit theft.
The court heard that on Dec 28, another elderly woman had her necklace stolen at the polyclinic after she swallowed two blue pills a man had given her.
The polyclinic staff were told to keep a lookout for the man and they spotted Oh, who fit the description, the next day.
A staff member called the police and Oh was arrested after she saw him looking through Madam Ching's handbag and pulling a ring off the elderly woman's finger.
For administering the drug to commit theft, he could have been jailed up to 10 years and fined or caned.
