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Jail, caning for man who slashed woman, 64, multiple times in robbery attempt​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Mar 04, 2025, 07:42 PM

SINGAPORE - A homeless man, who could not work in Singapore as he was on a student pass, attacked a 64-year-old woman with a razor blade during a robbery attempt, causing multiple wounds on her neck and arms.

Indian national Shamsher Singh, who turns 27 on March 5, committed the offence in Mountbatten Road in November 2022 and fled the scene empty-handed.

The Singaporean victim, who was then working as a retail assistant, alerted the police after the attack. She was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and was given 30 days of hospitalisation leave. The woman was unable to follow her daily routine for 63 days.

After a trial, Singh was convicted of one count of causing grievous hurt to the woman while attempting to commit robbery.

He also pleaded guilty to two unrelated charges – one count each of theft and voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a teenage boy.

On March 4, he was sentenced to 8½ years in jail, 12 strokes of the cane and a fine of $1,000.

In earlier proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutor Tung Shou Pin told District Judge Lim Tse Haw that the victim, who was on her way home from work on Nov 10, 2022, got off bus service 31 at a bus stop near the Singapore Association for the Deaf at around 8.30pm.

DPP Tung added that Singh was sitting at the bus stop when he saw the woman walking towards the lift of a nearby overhead bridge, as she wanted to cross to the opposite side of the road.

The court heard that the woman’s legs were too weak to walk up the stairs of the overhead bridge.

The prosecutor said Singh then took out an unused disposable razor and unwrapped it.

He held the razor discreetly in his right hand by pinching it between his index finger and thumb.

The victim got off the lift, and Singh tailed her after he took the stairs up the overhead bridge.

DPP Tung told Judge Lim: “The victim made it about halfway across... Suddenly, the accused grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth with his left hand. He grabbed her so tightly that she could not move freely.

“The victim immediately struggled, but the accused cut her neck with the razor in his right hand before she could free herself... He repeatedly demanded money... Before she could pay up, he repeatedly slashed her arms with the razor.”

The victim continued struggling and managed to pull on Singh’s hoodie, dislodging his hood, which he quickly pulled up to conceal his face. As they tussled, the victim’s face mask fell off, and she shouted: “Robbery!”

Court documents stated that Singh covered the woman’s mouth with his hand to silence her, but she bit him to make him release his grip.

The DPP said that Singh bit her wrist before he dropped the razor on the bridge and fled.

The woman alerted the police, and officers arrested Singh when he was with his girlfriend at East Coast Park at around 2.20am the next day.

During the trial, Singh did not deny being at the overhead bridge and admitted he had caused the cuts on the victim’s arms.

However, he claimed that he was defending himself against the victim, who had supposedly attacked him first.

Singh said he had finished lessons at Trent Global College at Mountbatten Square at about 4pm on the day of the attack. He then met his girlfriend at Tekka Centre in Little India.

He claimed he later returned to Mountbatten Road and went up the overhead bridge, where he met the victim, and his right hand “accidentally brushed against her right hand” when he walked past her.

Singh said he apologised to the woman, but she hurled vulgarities and racial insults at him.

He testified that a scuffle broke out between them, and he “swung” a shaver at the victim’s left arm before fleeing the scene.

Stressing that the victim was a credible witness, the DPP said Singh should have gone to the police to complain about the victim’s purported attack on him.

“The accused had the gall to spin a nonsensical tale that the victim, a frail senior citizen, attacked him so viciously he had to cut her with a razor to free himself,” he added.

In an unrelated case, Singh, who was represented by lawyer Ranjit Singh, assaulted a 17-year-old boy in September 2022 and caused a fracture to the victim’s left wrist.

Sometime between Sept 29 and Oct 10, 2022, Singh stole a watch worth around $519 from his female housemate.

After moving out, he sent her a WhatsApp message on Oct 10, 2022, and she saw that he was wearing the watch in his profile picture.

She confronted him and he promised to return it to her. She alerted the police on Oct 24 that year when he failed to keep his word.

 

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Man who climbed into neighbour’s home to molest woman gets 7 months’ jail​

Nadine Chua
Mar 05, 2025

SINGAPORE – A man climbed into his neighbour’s condominium unit through the kitchen balcony and molested a woman while she was sleeping in her bedroom.

When she woke up, the man urinated in fear, pleading with her and her husband not to call the police.

On March 5, Erakkodan Abinraj, 26, was handed a jail term of seven months after pleading guilty to one count of molestation. Another count of housebreaking was considered during sentencing.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Kathy Chu said the Indian national had been living next door to the 36-year-old victim for around a year. He lived there with five of his colleagues and knew the victim as he had bumped into her before.

On Sept 22, 2024, at around 4.50am, Erakkodan entered the woman’s unit through the kitchen balcony, which was connected her unit and his.

As it was dark, Erakkodan turned on the torchlight on his mobile phone and wandered around the unit, looking at the woman’s family photos.

He then entered the master bedroom where the woman was asleep with her husband. Their daughter was asleep in another room.

Erakkodan then touched the woman’s underwear and pulled it downwards, wanting to remove it.

DPP Chu said: “The victim awoke as she felt someone touching her. She turned to her left to look at her husband and saw that he was sleeping. Puzzled, she turned to her right and saw the accused holding up his handphone with the torchlight on.”

The woman screamed, waking her husband, who confronted Erakkodan and asked him to leave the room.

As Erakkodan walked out of the room, he urinated in fear and pleaded with them not to call the police.

The woman called the police and Erakkodan remained in the victim’s home until the police arrived. He admitted to the couple that he had entered the unit through the kitchen balcony.

However, he denied touching the woman and lied that his mobile phone had dropped on her and woke her up.

Seeking six to eight months’ jail, DPP Chu said: “The offence took place in the victim’s bedroom, in the middle of the night. The accused invaded the sanctity of the home.”

The prosecutor added that the victim was vulnerable as she was asleep and that Erakkodan caused further inconvenience to the victim and her family by urinating in her home.

If convicted of molestation, an offender can be jailed for up to three years, fined and caned.

 

[True Believer]

The trouble with most foreigners is that they believe that they can bring their Third World behaviour from which ever shit hole they entered SG from, and replicate it here w/o any consequences. Look at the increase in jaywalking, littering, crime and defecation in public in SG these days.

 

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Jail for maid abuser who threatened to make victim pay her $2k if she reported to MOM​

Norwahidah Johari (pictured) started abusing Ms Putri Rizki Amelia, just five months after the offender’s husband employed the maid.PHOTO: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Mar 06, 2025

SINGAPORE – A woman abused her domestic helper on eight separate occasions in 2023 and even threatened to make the Indonesian woman pay her $2,000 if the victim reported the matter to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).

Norwahidah Johari started abusing Ms Putri Rizki Amelia, 33, just five months after the offender’s husband employed the maid on March 13, 2023.

In her police report, the victim told officers that she had to sleep in the kitchen of her employer’s Bukit Batok Housing Board flat since the second day of her employment.

Ms Putri added that Norwahidah had also verbally abused her by saying: “Poor, filthy woman.”

The 42-year-old Malaysian offender was sentenced to four weeks’ jail on March 6 after she pleaded guilty to two counts of using criminal force on the victim and one count of assaulting her.

Five other counts of using criminal force on the maid were considered during her sentencing.

Norwahidah, who is a Singapore permanent resident, started abusing the maid on Aug 9, 2023, when she threw a basket containing torn pieces of waste paper at Ms Putri’s face.

She later committed other acts of abuse including swinging a shoe towards the helper and throwing a bowl of flour at her.

Shortly after midnight on Sept 28, 2023, Norwahidah was in the kitchen when she asked Ms Putri why a bottle of soya sauce was not placed in a nearby refrigerator.

Norwahidah then said that she had repeatedly reminded the maid to keep the condiment in the refrigerator, adding the younger woman had not done so for about a month and a half.

Ms Putri replied that Norwahidah had generally kept soya sauce on a kitchen table. The victim also said that the condiment bottle was too big to fit in the refrigerator.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Ng Jun Kai told the court: “The accused got angry at the victim. (She)...poured half the bottle of soya sauce over the head of the victim.

“The victim was upset and challenged the accused to finish pouring the bottle of soya sauce over her. The accused then continued pouring the whole bottle of soya sauce over the victim’s head.”

On another occasion, Norwahidah was having dinner at home some time in September 2023 when she asked Ms Putri to prepare some chilli for her and remove the seeds.

The maid handed a bowl of chilli to the offender who rejected it, saying that she could still see some seeds.

Norwahidah told Ms Putri to clean the chilli again and the latter complied.

DPP Ng said: “The accused...told the victim that there were still seeds and got angry at the victim. The accused then took the bowl of cut chillies and threw it in the face of the victim.

“The cut chillies came into contact with the victim’s eyes and caused irritation to the victim that night.”

The acts of abuse escalated in early October 2023 when Norwahidah started assaulting the helper.

The court heard that the offender had earlier noticed that a couch in her flat reeked of urine after she came home from work. Details about her occupation were not disclosed in court documents.

She became frustrated as she had instructed Ms Putri on previous occasions to place a rubber mat on the couch before her daughter, who was still wearing a nappy, rested on it.

Ms Putri then told Norwahidah that the child’s nappy had overflowed earlier that day and soiled the couch.

The helper also told Norwahidah that she had washed the couch but the latter insisted that it still reeked of urine.

Ms Putri was cleaning the couch again when Norwahidah said that it was “expensive” and that the victim could not afford it.

Norwahidah then grabbed her maid’s left ear and twisted it. Ms Putri finally made a police report on Oct 9, 2023.

She also told officers that Norwahidah had threatened to make her fork out $2,000 if she reported to the MOM.

The abuser was later charged in court in 2024.

On March 6, defence lawyer Noelle Teoh urged the court to sentence her client to three weeks’ jail.

Ms Teoh also said that Norwahidah regretted her actions and had acted out of character.

The offender’s bail has been set at $10,000 and she is expected to start serving her sentence on March 24.

 

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Jail, fine for ex-cop with gambling habit who pocketed nearly $1.8k entrusted to him​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Mar 06, 2025

SINGAPORE – A police officer was at work when he misappropriated nearly $1,800 in cash from a handbag that a security officer had found unattended and entrusted to him.

Muhammad Amzath Khan Abuayubul Ansari, who was then a Sergeant 2, committed the offence in August 2024 as he wanted to use the money to gamble on unlawful online portals and repay bank debts.

The Malaysian man resigned from the Singapore Police Force the following month, and the misappropriated money was fully recovered.

On March 6, the 24-year-old Singapore permanent resident was sentenced to seven months’ jail and a fine of $2,000.

He had pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal breach of trust and taking part in unlawful gambling activities.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Lim Li Ting said Amzath had been placing bets on several unlicensed online gambling platforms since 2017.

He had created an account on one of the websites and obtained gaming credits by transferring funds to various bank accounts provided by the portal’s administrator.

By using such credits, he would go on the website to play casino games as well as place bets on sports and e-sports matches.

The DPP told the court that Amzath had placed more than $17,000 in bets on the website over 200 occasions in August 2024.

At around 5pm on Aug 24, 2024, a 19-year-old woman accidentally left her handbag behind when she boarded a private hire car outside a condominium complex in Middle Road.

The property’s security officers found the handbag. At around 7.40pm, one of them took the bag to Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre (NPC), where Amzath attended to him.

The 43-year-old security officer entrusted the handbag and its contents to the policeman.

He also handed a piece of paper listing the items found in the bag, including nearly $1,800 in cash, to Amzath.

DPP Lim said: “After taking over the handbag, the accused opened it on the countertop and confirmed that there was a bundle of cash in there.

“At that time, the (security officer) was seated in front of him at a counter. The accused then formed the intention to dishonestly misappropriate the cash for his personal use.”

When the security officer looked away, Amzath placed the handbag below the countertop, took out the money and hid it.

After that, he placed the handbag on the countertop and sealed it in a polymer bag in the security officer’s view before the older man left the NPC.

Amzath left work at about 8pm that day with the misappropriated cash.

In a bid to cover his tracks, he also shredded the list the security officer had given him.

At around 9.30pm, the woman returned to the condominium and approached its security officers, who said her handbag was at Rochor NPC in Kampong Kapor Road.

After she claimed her handbag there, she discovered the money was missing.

Amzath was arrested on Aug 25, 2024, and the cash was fully recovered from him 11 days later. He resigned on Sept 26 that year.

 

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Jail for man who stole nearly $212k worth of goods, including 457 GoPro cameras​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Mar 11, 2025

SINGAPORE – In need of cash, an operations worker at a warehouse stole nearly $212,000 worth of goods, including 457 GoPro cameras, from his then workplace and sold them in Johor, Malaysia.

Mohamad Faizat Mohd Paszul used his ill-gotten gains to buy furniture for his Malaysian home and a motorcycle.

The 27-year-old Malaysian, who has not made any restitution, was sentenced to a year and nine months’ jail on March 11 after he pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Jordy Kay told the court that Faizat stole from the warehouse in Ubi Avenue 4 around two to three times a week between November 2023 and May 2024.

After office hours, he would place his loot inside a black rubbish bag and seal it before taking it to a rubbish disposal area.

The prosecutor said: “To avoid detection, the accused would only return to the rubbish disposal area to retrieve the stolen items after his colleagues left the warehouse.

“After successfully removing the items from the warehouse, the accused would sell the stolen items to a Malaysian national in Johor.”

His offence came to light after numerous items were found to be missing during a stock-take.

Faizat’s employer suspected that its own staff could have stolen the goods and a warehouse senior manager alerted the police on April 15, 2024.

Court documents did not disclose how the authorities managed to uncover Faizat as the culprit, but he was arrested four months later.

 

[True Believer]

Such thefts by foreigners working in S'pore are small in comparison
to the daily plunder by our politicians, which are craftily made legal.