Serious Crazy ex-MOE Teacher Finally Jailed For Sending Threatening Letters To Principal!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE - Bent on revenge, a former teacher sent anonymous text messages, letters and e-mails to harass the school principal of his previous workplace between 2018 and 2021.

When the offender found out that a student from the principal's school was killed in an accident, he decided to distress his former boss by sending anonymous abusive letters to him.

The offender also sent similar letters to other people, including a church elder and the principals of three other schools, as he wanted them to know how his former boss had purportedly mismanaged issues linked to the student's death.

In unrelated incidents in 2020, the former teacher also sent anonymous text messages to a female lecturer who he felt was "quite high-handed" and unkind when he was one of her students.

The 46-year-old man, who is no longer a teacher and has been a private tutor since 2019, pleaded guilty on Monday to two harassment charges.

Court documents did not disclose how the former teacher was caught

He cannot be named due to a gag order to protect his victims' identities.

The court heard that he was unhappy with the principal as he disagreed with the man's management style. He also felt that the principal was a difficult boss to work with.

The offender left the school in 2017 and started sending anonymous text messages, letters and e-mails to harass the principal over the next few years.

He later found out about the student's death and blamed the principal for the tragedy.

The offender then decided to send the principal anonymous letters using some National University of Singapore (NUS) envelopes he had found some time before 2018 at the void deck of a block of flats.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Zhi Hao said: "The accused prepared 20 similar anonymous letters.

"Each letter was enclosed in an official envelope from the (NUS), and contained a note with the following abusive words: 'Heavy is the head which weareth the crown, eyes tainted with guilt, tongue defiled by lies, bloody are thy hands which are stained with a child's blood'."

The principal was also named in each note, with some dates to give the impression that he would die in 2021.

The court heard that the former teacher used the NUS envelopes as he felt that by doing so, the offences would not be easily traced back to him.

On Feb 9, 2021, the former teacher left his Boon Keng flat and travelled to Sengkang, where he used a public phone to make an anonymous call to the principal.

He then told the principal that the man had "blood on (his) hands" before hanging up.

The principal later told a colleague about the call and found out that the school had received multiple anonymous letters. The principal then read one of them, the court heard.

DPP Tan said: "To the (principal), the note read like an epitaph from a tombstone. He was told that the first line of the note was a quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV.

"The last line was a death threat and gave the impression that (he) would die in 2021. As a result, the (principal) felt devastated, scared and threatened."

The principal alerted the police, and he became more cautious whenever he received calls or messages from an unidentified number. He was also worried about his family's safety.

He used to allow his children to go to school on their own. But following the incident, he would ensure that someone accompanies them to and from school.

Meanwhile, the female lecturer whom the former teacher harassed in 2020 received text messages such as one stating: "Your stint (at the school) is testament that those who can't do, teach. But, come to think of it, you can't even teach to save your life."

The woman lodged a police report on April 3, 2020.

The offender is expected to be sentenced on Oct 5.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...onymously-harassing-school-principal-lecturer

 

[sweetiepie]

The om look similar to crazy gansiokbin threats to SFC boss

https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/de...faming-your-good-father-leonard.256754/unread

@ginfreely gansiokbin my uncle wish you get jailed too

 

[Patriotmissile]

This siao lang took it too seriously. If he knew that the whole ministry is a circus with cotton sheep clown or jester at its helm, then he would feel better.

 

[covertbriar]

SINGAPORE — After a recent fatal incident killed a student from his school, a former teacher of the school wrote an enigmatic poem to the principal, who believed that the poem may be a "death threat".


The former teacher, Lee Lit Meing, also made an anonymous call using a public phone and accused the principal of being a murderer.

Besides these, Lee sent 19 other anonymous letters with the same poem addressed to the school’s deputy principals, the human resource manager, a secretary, deans and directors. He sent them as well to principals from three other schools and a church elder.


Lee, 46, pleaded guilty on Monday (Sept 19) to two charges under the Protection from Harassment Act that were related to two victims: The principal from the school where the deceased student was studying and a lecturer from another educational institute.


He will be sentenced on Oct 5.

The name of the schools involved, details of the circumstances leading to the student's death, the victims as well as any other information that could lead to their identification, cannot be reported due to a court order.

The court heard that Lee had been a teacher at the school for about three years but had left for some years before the fatal incident happened. He became a private tuition teacher in 2019.

Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Tan Zhi Hao said that while Lee was a teacher there, he had been unhappy with the principal’s management style and felt that the principal was a difficult boss.


After Lee left the school, he started sending anonymous WhatsApp messages, letters and emails to harass the principal.


He did so on at least three separate occasions, often relying on “significant events” involving the school in his communications, DPP Tan said. Court documents did not state what these events were.


After the fatal incident involving a student, Lee blamed the principal for the student’s death and sent him an anonymous letter with a poem containing what the prosecution called “abusive” words. The passage read:

“Heavy is the head which weareth the crown.

“Eyes tainted with guilt.


“Tongue defiled by lies.


“Bloody are thy hands which are stained with a child’s blood.”


The final line included the name of the principal, followed by the principal’s birth year and the year the letter was written in brackets.


To the principal, the letter read like an epitaph from a tombstone, DPP Tan said.

The first line was taken from Henry IV, a play by William Shakespeare, while the other lines cast blame of the student’s death on the principal, he added.

The last line was a death threat and gave the impression that the principal would die that year, DPP Tan told the court.


Lee sent each of the letters to the various parties using an envelope from another institution, the National University of Singapore. He found these envelopes at the void deck near the public housing block where he lived and used them to make his offences harder to be traced back to him, DPP Tan said.


To cause further distress, he travelled from his home in Boon Keng to Sengkang where he found a public phone that he used to call the principal.


Over the course of the phone call, Lee told the principal: “You have blood on your hands,” and “You are a murderer. You killed a child.”


Stunned, the principal — who did not recognise Lee’s voice — hung up after telling Lee that the incident was under police investigation and that it was inappropriate for him to comment.


DPP Tan said that the principal was feeling distressed about the fatal incident and felt scared that someone who knew his personal phone number and birth year was threatening him.


The principal then made a police report.

More at https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...h-threat-poem-principal-student-death-1996801

 

[laksaboy]

A siaolang teacher in MOE schools is way better than a pedophile teacher. For the latter, it is not easy to catch them, they often rack up plenty of 'best teacher awards'.