<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>May 13, 2009
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A CHARTERED accountant who exposed himself at a condominium pool was fined $1,500 on Wednesday.
Tan Koon Wah, 58, admitted to exposing his private part intending to insult the modesty of a 37-year-old woman at The Belvedere at Meyer Road in Katong on Dec 1 last year .
The woman called the police and reported that a man had insulted her modesty.
The court that she was swimming alone at the condominium pool when she saw Tan pull down his swimming trunks and expose himself to her.
A second similar charge was taken into consideration.
Pleading for leniency, Tan's lawyer, Mr Amolat Singh, said his client's actions were unintentional. Tan, he said, had worked in England for about 20 years.
In 2007, he decided to spend at least six months with his aged parents. It was on such a visit that the offence was committed.
Counsel said his client, a polio victim, swam for exercise to decelerate the bone loss and for physiotherapy as he was diagnosed with osteoporosis recently. Tan could have been jailed for up to one year and fined for the offence.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Man exposed self in pool <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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A CHARTERED accountant who exposed himself at a condominium pool was fined $1,500 on Wednesday.
Tan Koon Wah, 58, admitted to exposing his private part intending to insult the modesty of a 37-year-old woman at The Belvedere at Meyer Road in Katong on Dec 1 last year .
The woman called the police and reported that a man had insulted her modesty.
The court that she was swimming alone at the condominium pool when she saw Tan pull down his swimming trunks and expose himself to her.
A second similar charge was taken into consideration.
Pleading for leniency, Tan's lawyer, Mr Amolat Singh, said his client's actions were unintentional. Tan, he said, had worked in England for about 20 years.
In 2007, he decided to spend at least six months with his aged parents. It was on such a visit that the offence was committed.
Counsel said his client, a polio victim, swam for exercise to decelerate the bone loss and for physiotherapy as he was diagnosed with osteoporosis recently. Tan could have been jailed for up to one year and fined for the offence.
