SINGAPORE: A young man who used criminal force to try and outrage the modesty of his junior has been given a year's jail.
22-year-old Rayson Leong Wai Wung had forced his 18-year-old male friend to touch his private parts.
The incident happened on 15 August 2012 at the accused's residence in Rivervale Crescent.
Leong and the victim were friends as they were from the same secondary school.
In mitigation, Leong's lawyer said that her client is unlikely to re-offend.
She added that Leong has been accepted by a Korean university to study music and urged the district judge not to "extinguish his hope".
But the judge said that the crime was pre-meditated as Leong had planned his move.
What made it worse, said the judge, was that force was used and that there was a struggle.
- CNA/xq
22-year-old Rayson Leong Wai Wung had forced his 18-year-old male friend to touch his private parts.
The incident happened on 15 August 2012 at the accused's residence in Rivervale Crescent.
Leong and the victim were friends as they were from the same secondary school.
In mitigation, Leong's lawyer said that her client is unlikely to re-offend.
She added that Leong has been accepted by a Korean university to study music and urged the district judge not to "extinguish his hope".
But the judge said that the crime was pre-meditated as Leong had planned his move.
What made it worse, said the judge, was that force was used and that there was a struggle.
- CNA/xq
