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Sep 26, 2009
Cabby jailed for bigamy <!--10 min-->
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Keh, who was jailed for one day and fined $5,000 for committing bigamy, was still legally married on the two occasions that he remarried. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
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TAXI driver Keh Teck Bok, 60, took two new wives in the space of five years. Each time he remarried, though, he was still legally married to someone else. Yesterday, he was jailed for a day and fined $5,000 for bigamy - an offence which could have seen him jailed for up to seven years and fined. In 1998, he married Chinese national Zhang Lanying despite being legally married to his wife of almost 30 years at that time. The wedding was solemnised in China. Keh divorced his wife only four years later, when Ms Zhang gave birth to a boy. A year later, he married a Filipina in the Philippines. In his mitigation, Keh's lawyer Gurdaib Singh said he married Ms Zhang at a time when he was having differences with his first wife. His three children from that marriage were already grown up by then.
Sep 26, 2009
Cabby jailed for bigamy <!--10 min-->
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Keh, who was jailed for one day and fined $5,000 for committing bigamy, was still legally married on the two occasions that he remarried. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
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TAXI driver Keh Teck Bok, 60, took two new wives in the space of five years. Each time he remarried, though, he was still legally married to someone else. Yesterday, he was jailed for a day and fined $5,000 for bigamy - an offence which could have seen him jailed for up to seven years and fined. In 1998, he married Chinese national Zhang Lanying despite being legally married to his wife of almost 30 years at that time. The wedding was solemnised in China. Keh divorced his wife only four years later, when Ms Zhang gave birth to a boy. A year later, he married a Filipina in the Philippines. In his mitigation, Keh's lawyer Gurdaib Singh said he married Ms Zhang at a time when he was having differences with his first wife. His three children from that marriage were already grown up by then.
