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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - fall guy jailed but SPG no jail?</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>fixncc <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>2:05 am </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 7) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>44329.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Fined $2,000 for hiring fall guy for traffic offence
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<!-- end by line --><!-- end left side bar --> Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 by the district court for perverting the course of justice. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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SHE got a police friend to rope in a woman to take the rap for beating a red light for the price of $1,000. For perverting the course of justice in 2008, Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 on Feb 8.
Through lawyer Lim Kia Tong, Tay, who is now studying for a business degree at the Singapore Institute of Management, said she intends to appeal against the fine.
Her two accomplices were both jailed. Former deputy superintendent of police Kelvin Choo Yew Beng, 40, was sentenced to six months in jail in April last year for getting Leung Man Kwan to take the rap for Tay. For her role, Leung, 35, a property agent, was jailed three months in 2009.
In Tay's case, District Judge Jill Tan said that psychiatric reports indicated that there was a 'causal link' between Tay's depression and the commission of the offence. As she had kept on the right side of the law since 2008 and there was little chance of her repeating the offence, the judge found that it was not necessary to impose probation or a jail term.
Tay had pleaded guilty late last year. Then, the court heard that she ran a red light at the junction of Lornie Road and Sime Road in January 2008. She had taken a Bulgarian business manager's car out for a spin without his consent while he was abroad. Tay, who had been staying in the Bulgarian's house, knew she had been caught as she saw the camera flash go off.
Worried because she was driving without a licence and without the permission of the car's owner, she turned to Choo for help. Tay, who is the last to be dealt with, has also been fined a total of $1,900 for driving the car without a licence, without insurance and for beating the red light.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_632500.html
No licence, no permission to use car, no insurance, even running red light and getting fall guy for SPG and no jail time just because of perceived little chance of repeating offence? Whereas the fall guy got jailed??? Did our judges eat too many bananas? What about Yong Vui Kong on death row who will also likely not to reoffend- can the judiciary show consistency? We're talking about someone's life here. How ridiculous.
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<!-- by line -->By Khushwant Singh
<!-- end by line --><!-- end left side bar --> Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 by the district court for perverting the course of justice. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
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SHE got a police friend to rope in a woman to take the rap for beating a red light for the price of $1,000. For perverting the course of justice in 2008, Evangeline Tay Sun Ann, 22, was fined $2,000 on Feb 8.
Through lawyer Lim Kia Tong, Tay, who is now studying for a business degree at the Singapore Institute of Management, said she intends to appeal against the fine.
Her two accomplices were both jailed. Former deputy superintendent of police Kelvin Choo Yew Beng, 40, was sentenced to six months in jail in April last year for getting Leung Man Kwan to take the rap for Tay. For her role, Leung, 35, a property agent, was jailed three months in 2009.
In Tay's case, District Judge Jill Tan said that psychiatric reports indicated that there was a 'causal link' between Tay's depression and the commission of the offence. As she had kept on the right side of the law since 2008 and there was little chance of her repeating the offence, the judge found that it was not necessary to impose probation or a jail term.
Tay had pleaded guilty late last year. Then, the court heard that she ran a red light at the junction of Lornie Road and Sime Road in January 2008. She had taken a Bulgarian business manager's car out for a spin without his consent while he was abroad. Tay, who had been staying in the Bulgarian's house, knew she had been caught as she saw the camera flash go off.
Worried because she was driving without a licence and without the permission of the car's owner, she turned to Choo for help. Tay, who is the last to be dealt with, has also been fined a total of $1,900 for driving the car without a licence, without insurance and for beating the red light.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_632500.html
No licence, no permission to use car, no insurance, even running red light and getting fall guy for SPG and no jail time just because of perceived little chance of repeating offence? Whereas the fall guy got jailed??? Did our judges eat too many bananas? What about Yong Vui Kong on death row who will also likely not to reoffend- can the judiciary show consistency? We're talking about someone's life here. How ridiculous.
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