Ang mo flasher
Local Flasher
USING a pair of binoculars, he made sure residents opposite his block could see him before he removed his clothes and performed an obscene act.
Graham Wayne Smith, 60, who teaches slow learners in primary schools with his Singaporean wife, was at his Yishun HDB flat on March 10 at about 1am when a 43-year-old housewife saw him looking at her unit through his binoculars.
The woman alerted her 18-year-old daughter and they switched off the kitchen lights.
A while later, the housewife switched on the lights and saw Smith naked and masturbating by the window.
She told her daughter about it and then called the police.
Smith later admitted to the police that he had used his binoculars to look into the woman's unit and intentionally removed his clothes knowing that he could be seen by the mother and daughter.
In court yesterday, he was fined $800 after admitting to a charge of appearing nude in a private place which was exposed to public view.
His lawyer, Mr Paul, had asked the court for a conditional discharge or low fine for the former New Zealand Air Force and New Zealand Army officer.
He said his client had gone through a lot, was contrite and ashamed of the incident, which was uncharacteristic of him.
That night, Smith was working late and was under stress. Although not a habitual drinker, he took some wine and a bit of his wife's sleeping tablet, Mr Paul said.
Local Flasher
A TAXI driver was yesterday fined $2,600 for being naked in his own flat in clear view of his neighbours, as well as for splashing water on one of them when she confronted him.
On May 17, a 44-year-old neighbour was going into her flat in Block 802 Woodlands Street 81 when she spotted Chua Hock Hin (right), 56, through an open corridor window, and was shocked to see him standing naked in his kitchen.
When she and her husband confronted Chua later outside his flat, he splashed a pot of water at the woman. The police were called.
Two days earlier, another neighbour, a 14-year-old girl, was walking home when she looked through the open corridor window of Chua’s flat and saw him sitting naked at the dining table and eating with his legs crossed.