Cabby gets four months for threatening to post intimate passenger photos online
Published on May 23, 2014 6:17 PM
Cabby Mohamed Rafee Abdul Rahman was sentenced to four months' jail after threatening to post revealing photos of a couple on YouTube after finding them on a phone left in the back of his taxi. -- ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
By Elena Chong
SINGAPORE - A cabby threatened to post revealing photos of a couple on YouTube after finding them on a phone left in the back of his taxi.
Mohamed Rafee Abdul Rahman, 33, tried to get $10,000 out of Zayed Moyeen in return for not revealing images of his brother Omar and his fiancee in their underwear.
On Friday the former driver was sentenced to four months' jail after admitting criminal intimidation, though he is planning to appeal.
District Judge Lim Keng Yeow said the crime was committed in a "grossly reprehensible" manner.
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