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12 years' jail for 53-year-old 'hug and steal' woman

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12 years' jail for 53-year-old 'hug and steal' woman

Preventive detention for 53-year-old who went back to old tricks after 11 years in jail

Published on Dec 16, 2011

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CCTV images released by the police showing Tan at work inside a lift. The former lounge hostess stole about $4,000 from 11 elderly men in a six-month period. Police said she would approach her victims at common areas in housing estates and lure them to more secluded places, where she would pick their pockets while hugging them. -- PHOTOS: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

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By Khushwant Singh

She had been released from prison only last year after serving an 11-year sentence for a series of pickpocketing offences.

But barely a year later, former lounge hostess Tan Yoke Lan was back to her old tricks - befriending elderly men and hugging them before stealing their money.

On Thursday, the 53-year-old was sent back to prison, this time for 12 years of preventive detention.

She had stolen some $4,000 from 11 elderly men from May to October this year.

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