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Sri Lankan Student Jailed For 10 Weeks In Singapore For Molesting Woman In Lift

A Sri Lankan student who molested a woman in a HDB lift was jailed for 10 weeks on Tuesday (May 3).
The 28-year-old pleaded guilty to grabbing the 33-year-old woman's buttock in a lift at Buangkok Crescent at about 7.20pm on April 13 this year.
A court heard that he was on his way home at about 7.15pm that day when he saw the victim walking alone from a bus stop. He decided to follow her as he found her very attractive.
He followed her into a lift at a block at Buangkok Crescent and randomly pressed for the 10th floor. He then went towards the back of the lift, behind her.
As the lift was going up, he inched closer to the back of the victim.
When the lift door opened at the 10th floor, he walked past her and simultaneously used his right hand to grab her buttock once, intending to outrage her modesty.
He then ran out of the lift. The victim was shocked and shouted at him.
He turned briefly and said "sorry'' before fleeing down the staircase.
She called the police.
The court heard that the entire incident was captured on closed-circuit television camera within the lift. Through the CCTV footage and follow-up investigations, he was traced and arrested five days later at a flat in Buangkok Crescent.
He told the court he was doing a one-year diploma course, and had drunk alcohol before the incident.
He could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or received any combined punishment.

 

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2 Vietnamese women jailed for setting up sham marriage for compatriot

Nguyen Thi Yen was jailed for nine months and fined $3,000, while her accomplice Le Thi Tra My was jailed for seven months for arranging a marriage of convenience for a compatriot.

Published May 6, 2016, 4:45 pm SGT
Amir Hussain

SINGAPORE - Two Vietnamese women who fixed a marriage of convenience for a compatriot three years ago have been jailed for contracting a marriage in order to obtain an immigration advantage.

Nguyen Thi Yen, 41, was jailed for nine months and fined $3,000 on Thursday (May 5), while her accomplice Le Thi Tra My, 31, was jailed for seven months on April 5.

In February 2013, Le had suggested to the bride involved in the sham marriage that she marry a Singaporean, in order to apply for a Long-Term Visit Pass and extend her stay in Singapore. In return, the bride would pay Le $7,500.

She agreed, and Le introduced her to Nguyen, who then found her a suitable groom.

The groom would get a cut of the bride's money, for sponsoring her Visit Pass applications to extend her stay in Singapore after their marriage.

The couple solemnised their marriage at a Peninsula Plaza restaurant on March 18 that year. Le, Nguyen and the groom each got a cut of the $7,500 paid by the bride.

The maximum punishment for contracting or entering into a sham marriage is a $10,000 fine and 10 years' jail.

In 2013, the bride and groom were each jailed for six months for entering into the fake marriage.

In a statement on Friday (May 6), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said it takes a serious view of those who contract sham marriages for immigration benefits.

 

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4 Chinese nationals sentenced for peddling contraband cigarettes on WeChat

Photo: Singapore Customs

Friday, May 6, 2016

SINGAPORE - A total of four Chinese nationals - in three separate cases - have been sentenced for their involvement in contraband cigarette activities using the Chinese instant messaging platform WeChat.

In the first case, a 26-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday (May 4) to five months' imprisonment for peddling contraband cigarettes via WeChat.

Singapore Customs said in a press statement today that Zhang Daolong was arrested by customs officers as he was leaving his rented room in an apartment in Lorong 28 Geylang on April 28.

More than 235 cartons of contraband cigarettes were seized. The amount of duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) evaded exceeded $20,110.

Zhang was one of the four Chinese nationals nabbed by Singapore Customs in the last seven weeks for peddling contraband cigarettes on WeChat.

In the second case, a married couple was sentenced on April 14 to 12 weeks imprisonment for their involvement in contraband cigarette activities.

Ma Feng, 32, and Zhang Qiuping, 33, had set up WeChat accounts to attract potential buyers for their contraband cigarettes.

Ma was in charge of liaising with contraband cigarette suppliers while his wife, Zhang, liaised with and delivered the contraband cigarettes to their buyers, said the Singapore Customs statement.

Zhang was arrested in Woodlands Avenue 6 on April 12 when she was delivering contraband cigarettes to buyers.

Her husband was arrested when custom officers raided the couple's rented room in an HDB flat in Woodlands Ring Road.

More than 67 cartons of contraband cigarettes were seized in this operation. The amount of duty and GST evaded exceeded $5,720.

In the last case, Liu Huawen, 33, was sentenced on March 14 to three months' imprisonment and a fine of $9,200 or in default two months and two weeks' imprisonment.

Liu was arrested by Singapore Customs officers on March 11 when he was delivering contraband cigarettes in Jurong West Street 62. The officers then raided Liu's rented room in a housing flat nearby.

More than 94 cartons of contraband cigarettes were seized in this operation. The amount of duty and GST evaded exceeded $8,050.

Investigations revealed that Liu had sourced for suppliers and buyers of contraband cigarettes via WeChat.

Mr Yeo Ban Meng, head of Suppression and Community Engagement, Singapore Customs, said: "We are keeping a close watch on such illegal activities on WeChat and other social media platforms."

"Offenders will be severely punished in accordance with the law," he added.

Buying, selling, conveying, delivering, storing, keeping, having in possession or dealing with duty-unpaid goods are serious offences under the Customs Act and the GST Act.

Offenders can be fined up to 40 times the amount of duty and GST evaded, and/or jailed for up to six years.

The minimum court fines for first-time and repeat offenders of tobacco-related offences are $2,000 and $4,000 respectively. Repeat offenders who are caught with more than two kilogrammes of tobacco products will also face mandatory jail sentences.

Mr Yeo said: "We urge members of the public to report to Singapore Customs any suspected contraband cigarette activities they come across on instant messaging platforms, and help us to stop such criminal activities from taking place in their neighbourhood."

Members of the public with information on smuggling activities or evasion of customs duty or GST can call the Singapore Customs hotline at 1800-2330000 or email the authority at [email protected].

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Five foreigners charged with recording gaming machines at casinos with mobile phones

Slot machines at the casino at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS).PHOTO: THE BUSINESS TIMES FILE

Published May 10, 2016, 5:28 pm SGT
Amir Hussain

SINGAPORE - Five foreigners who allegedly used their mobile phones to record gaming machines at the casinos in Singapore were on Tuesday (May 10) charged with an offence under the Casino Control Act.

The five - a man from the Czech Republic, and two men and two women from Russia - are accused of obtaining an advantage for themselves, by the fraudulent use of equipment.

Logachev Vladislav, 40, and Logachev Olga, 39, allegedly schemed with each other, and with other unknown people, to record a slot machine at Marina Bay Sands' casino between 5.59pm and 6.02pm last Thursday (May 5), while it was being played by Vladislav.

Skubnik Radoslav, 40, who is from the Czech Republic, allegedly recorded a slot machine at the Resorts World Sentosa's (RWS) casino between 7.48pm and 8.38pm last Friday (May 6), while it was in play.

Egorov Andrei and Egorova Elena, both 33, allegedly conspired with each other, and with other unknown people, to record another slot machine at the RWS casino between 7.48pm and 7.50pm on Sunday, while it was also in play.

In a statement on Tuesday, the police said six suspects were arrested on Sunday, following a tip-off on Saturday.

Four suspects were arrested at the casinos while two others were arrested at a hotel in Tanjong Pagar.

Police seized 16 mobile phones, a laptop, cash and other items worth more than $125,000.

Investigations into the sixth suspect, a female Filipino, are still ongoing.

The five who have been charged will be remanded for another week.

Their cases will be mentioned in court again on May 17.

If convicted of obtaining an advantage in relation to the playing of a game in a casino by the fraudulent use of equipment, they face up to seven years' jail and a $150,000 fine.

 

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Man 'raped his family's maid twice in six hours'

Selina Lum
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

A 45-year-old man went on trial in the High Court yesterday for allegedly raping his domestic helper from Myanmar twice in a period of six hours at his Pasir Ris flat.

The Malaysian alcohol distributor, who is a Singapore permanent resident, does not deny having sex with her, but contends that the acts were consensual.

The man is not named as the court has barred the publication of any information that could lead to the identification of the victim.

He is now divorced from his wife, who had employed the maid.

The man is charged with first raping the 35-year-old maid at about 1am on Dec 20, 2013.

Prosecutors, in their opening address to the court, said the victim was asleep and alone in the flat when the man returned home in the early hours.

He restrained, molested and raped her despite her desperate pleas for him to stop, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Kumaresan Gohulabalan.

Six hours later, the victim was allegedly raped a second time in a similar manner.

A male friend of the victim would testify that she sounded distraught when she called him later that day to tell him she had been raped, said the DPP.

The victim also called the police.

Yesterday, police officers who responded to the call took the stand.

The court heard that they arrived at the flat in the late morning and the maid was calm as she spoke to a female officer inside the flat.

The officers said the man apologised to the maid, but she turned away. At one point, he squatted down in front of her, saying: "Please don't do this to me."

The man, who is on bail, is defended by Mr Sunil Sudheesan.

The trial is scheduled for seven days and continues today.

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Arrest warrant for driver involved in crash

One of the SBS two buses that collided along Sims Avenue on 11 July 2014 afternoon, leaving 23 passengers with minor injuries such as cuts and bruises. Service 80 – a single-decker bus – crashed into double-decker Service 21 at the slip road of the junction of Sims Avenue and Sims Way, towards Geylang, at about 5.30pm. All 23 passengers were conscious and were taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

Photo: The Straits Times

Ronald Loh
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

An SBS Transit bus driver accused of negligent driving, which resulted in 23 passengers getting hurt, failed to appear at his hearing in court yesterday.

A warrant of arrest was issued for Ahmad Jamalulail Abdul Rashid, 43, a Malaysian national.

Jamalulail is accused of failing to keep a proper lookout while driving an SBS bus along Sims Avenue at about 5.25pm on July 11, 2014.

As a result, the vehicle hit the rear of another SBS bus that had slowed down because of road works ahead.

Two passengers suffered grievous injuries. Jaswinder Singh, 18, had a nasal fracture and Mr Lee Joo Long, 58, suffered injuries to his spine, court papers said.

Twenty-one other passengers, aged between 16 and 79, were also hurt.

Jamalulail was charged with one count of causing grievous hurt to Mr Lee and Mr Singh by a negligent act and one count of endangering the lives of the other 21 passengers by a negligent act.

He was granted $5,000 bail and was supposed to turn up at the State Courts yesterday.

But defence lawyer Amarick Gill told the court he had been unable to contact Jamalulail since March and later discharged himself.

Jamalulail's bailor, who identified herself as his former colleague, was ordered to attend a show-cause hearing next month.

She told the court she has since filed a police report.

If convicted, Jamalulail faces up to two years' jail and a fine of up to $5,000 for causing grievous hurt by a negligent act.

For endangering human life by a negligent act, he could be jailed up to six months and fined up to $2,500.

 

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Former bank executive jailed 14 months for cheating UOB of $84,000

Mok Chwan Yee was sentenced to 14 months' jail after pleading guilty to 13 of 40 charges of cheating United Overseas Bank (UOB).

Published 8 hours ago
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - A former mobile personal banking executive, who deceived the bank into delivering referral commissions totalling $84,500 to a housing agent for property loans, was jailed for 14 months on Thursday (May 12).

Mok Chwan Yee, 35, a Malaysian, pleaded guilty to 13 of 40 charges of cheating United Overseas Bank into believing that customers were referred by Mr Tan Jeok Kiow to apply for housing loans when this was untrue, and induced the bank to deliver sums of $552 to $8,434 to Mr Tan.

The offences occurred between August 2006 and May 2007.

Investigations showed that there was an arrangement between Mok and Mr Tan to indicate the latter as the referring agent in the application forms of customers who did not have any referring agent on 40 occasions.

UOB pays referral commissions to real estate agents who refer customers to apply successfully for property loans with the bank, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Muhammad Imaduddien.

If the loan was referred by a real estate agent, the applicant would furnish the particulars of the agent in the form. Otherwise, the mobile banker would have to cross out this section and UOB will not pay any referral commission.

After Mr Tan had received the payments in cashier's orders, he would deposit them in his bank account, withdraw the money in cash and hand it to Mok.

In all, Mok received referral commissions of $84,505.

He left Singapore for Malaysia on July 20, 2007 before Commercial Affairs Department began its investigations. This was because his service had been terminated by UOB some time in May 2007.

A warrant of arrest was subsequently issued.

Mok was arrested in Kuala Lumpur Sept 7 last year, and brought back to Singapore three days later.

His lawyer Winston Quek said in mitigation that during Mok's employment with UOB, he had consistently shown strong work ethics.

He said there was no loss to UOB and Mr Tan had made full restitution to the bank.

He said Mok, who has two young children, had since learnt his lesson, was remorseful and willing to accept punishment for his wrongdoing.

District Judge Wong Li Tein, who took 27 other charges into consideration, backdated Mok's sentence to Sept 10 last year.

Mok could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined on each charge.

 

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Electrician jailed for groping teenage train passenger

Ravi Raja was jailed for three weeks on May 17, 2016, after repeatedly touching a 19-year-old girl's buttocks on a train on Dec 9, 2014.

Published 7 hours ago
Rachel Chia

SINGAPORE - An electrician who followed a teenage commuter around and molested her was jailed for three weeks on Tuesday.

Indian national Ravi Raja, 33, repeatedly touched the 19-year-old girl's buttocks after boarding the same train on December 9, 2014.

Throughout the 15-minute journey from City Hall to Lavender station, Ravi stood behind the girl and followed her whenever she moved.

He pleaded guilty to one charge of molestation.

District Judge Salina Ishak said Ravi had touched the teen repeatedly in clear and deliberate acts.

For using criminal force to outrage a person's modesty, Ravi could have been jailed up to two years, caned, fined, or any combination of these punishments.

 

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Alleged mastermind of $1.4m casino fraud dead, court told

Photo of a man walking out of the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino. Photo: The Straits Times

Elena Chong
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

A Laotian businessman who was facing a joint charge of colluding with 13 others to cheat the casino at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has died, a court heard yesterday.

Sengmanivong Soum's lawyer Shashi Nathan told the court that the 53-year-old died, apparently from a heart attack, some time at the end of last month.

The lawyer, who had a photograph of the death certificate, said he was trying to to get the original or duplicate to be sent over.

Sengmanivong, the alleged mastermind of the syndicate, had been accused of colluding with 13 Thai nationals and other unidentified persons in a fraudulent scheme to obtain cash chips from a game of baccarat at the casino between May 6 and 7 in 2013.

Baccarat is a game in which bets are placed on either the bank or player to have a winning hand of two or three cards.

The prosecution says that the men had knowledge of a sequence of cards to place bets in order to win chips amounting to $1.41 million. The defence argued the games were won fair and square.

Sengmanivong also faced a second charge of helping several of the accused and others to steal a card carrier containing unused playing cards from a cabinet in the Paiza salon at the casino on May 6 that year. Paiza is a VIP salon for high rollers at the resort.

The prosecution said rehearsals for the scheme were conducted in 2013 in Manila, in the Philippines, some time in April, and also at Swissotel here in early May.

All 14 men arrived in Singapore in April. Several of them visited the Paiza salon to check it out and ensure that they could gain access to the locked card cabinet.

After about 100 days of trial, which began in 2014, the prosecution closed its case.

The defence was supposed to have begun its case yesterday when hearing resumed before District Judge Soh Tze Bian.

The prosecution, led by Deputy Public Prosecutors Terence Chua and Marshall Lim, is looking into how to proceed with the trial.

The maximum punishment under the Casino Control Act is seven years' jail and a fine. It is the same for a theft-in-dwelling offence.

 

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Cop helped friend check ex-beau's envoy claim

Rishinder was also found guilty of theft and perverting the course of justice.

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Ex-staff sergeant jailed 5 months for abetting unauthorised data access and other crimes

Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

In 2012, a police officer helped a woman friend screen her former boyfriend's travel history as she had suspicions about his diplomat status.

Rishinder Singh Sidhu, 35, was having dinner with his friends, Ms Jessica Ng Kar Lan and Mr Yee Weng Kheong, 60, that year when Ms Ng voiced her suspicions about her former Australian boyfriend Reginald Lee Hum Hang, who allegedly told her he was a diplomat.

Rishinder, then a staff sergeant with Clementi police division, offered to conduct a screening of Mr Lee's travel movements.

He instigated a fellow police officer to search for Mr Lee's travel patterns on the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's computer system.

Rishinder, a Singapore permanent resident, was yesterday sentenced to five months' jail for abetment of unauthorised access to data, theft and perverting the course of justice.

On Nov 28, 2013, he stole $20 from Staff Sergeant Noor Adnin Sainal, 30, his colleague at Bukit Merah West Neighbourhood Police Centre. Several officers had reported having their money stolen between September and November.

A "mouse-trap'' operation was set up, and Rishinder was caught in the act on a pinhole camera installed at SSG Adnin's workstation, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan David Lim.

In the third case, the court heard that housewife Teo Hwee Leng, 48, disapproved of her 20-year-old son's relationship with his girlfriend, also a 20-year-old student.

While checking his mobile phone on Dec 21, 2014, she found an obscene photo his girlfriend had sent and confiscated the phone. According to Madam Teo, she sent the obscene photo to the girlusing her son's phone, and threatened to disseminate it if the girl contacted her son. The girl made a police report .

Madam Teo and her husband, who knew Rishinder, approached him for advice, not knowing he had left the police force in March.

On Dec 26 that year, Rishinder told Madam Teo to delete messages and images of the obscene photograph from her mobile phone, to frustrate investigations into her alleged criminal intimidation.

He also told her to say she did not intend to carry out her threat of posting the obscene photograph online.

 

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Man arrested for trying to flee Singapore on stolen motorised sampan

Photo of the seized sampan. Photo: Singapore Police Force

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

SINGAPORE - A 32-year-old man has been arrested for suspected theft of a motorised sampan and attempting to leave Singapore unlawfully on Tuesday (May 17).

According to a press statement by the Singapore Police Force (SPF), the Police Coast Guard (PGC) detected a sampan rowing towards Malaysia at the sea off Lim Chu Kang at about 10.30pm on Tuesday.

PCG immediately deployed both land and sea resources to intercept the sampan and managed to stop the man's vehicle at about 11pm. The man was arrested thereafter.

If convicted, the suspect may be punished with an imprisonment term of three years, or a fine, or both.

Any person guilty of an offence under the Immigration Act, for which no special penalty is provided, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or a jail term not exceeding six months or to both, according to SPF.

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how can a foreigner check if he has criminal record in singapore?

Postby selvin.don » Sat, 18 Jul 2015 2:00 pm

I have a foreigner relative who has worked in singapore .earlier some one and half year back ,he was convicted in singapore court and fined.
After conviction he continued working in singapore for 8 months and left to malaysia for another job.now he wants to come back to singapore on employment pass.
how can he check if he was registered as a criminal in singapore or not?

 

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Woman jailed a week for hurting daughter's maid

Li Guizhen was jailed for one week on Monday (May 23) after pleading guilty to hurting Ms Nwe Ni Hlaing, her daughter's maid.

Published May 23, 2016, 3:12 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - A woman from China who swung her knee towards a domestic worker while she was kneeling down, hitting her chin, was jailed for one week on Monday (May 23).

Li Guizhen, 64, had pleaded guilty to hurting Ms Nwe Ni Hlaing, 30, her daughter's maid, at a flat in Jurong West on June 28, 2014.

Li was then on a long-term visit pass which allowed her multiple trips to visit her daughter's family.

The court heard that after working for three days on June 30, 2014, Ms Hlaing learnt that she would be sent back to the employment agency the next day. She had seen Li talking to her employer.

On July 1 , before leaving the house for the agency, the victim decided to pay respect to Li.

She approached and knelt down before Li, who swung her knee upwards, hitting the victim's chin forcefully, causing her lower jaw to snap close. She felt pain on her teeth.

The victim told the agency that Li had assaulted her.

She was subsequently referred to the Dental Centre at National University Hospital.

She was found to have swollen lips and shaky upper front teeth. A doctor said both her upper front teeth will need to be monitored over the next three to five years as injured teeth can lose vitality over time.

Two other charges of committing a rash act causing hurt and poking the victim's cheek were taken into consideration.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Stephanie Koh said Li's assault was entirely unprovoked. The injuries caused to the victim were to her lips and front teeth, and would have caused her considerable pain and discomfort, she added.

Li's lawyer Leon Koh Weijin said that Li had paid compensation of $6,000 to the Myanmar maid. He said the incident arose because of "miscommunication and cultural barrier".

Although both Li and Ms Hlaing are Buddhists, he said in Li's religious culture, the act of kneeling before another is reserved only for worshipping the gods or dead ancestors.

As such, Li viewed the victim's action as highly disrespectful and inappropriate, and told her to get up, but the victim could not understand Li, who spoke in Mandarin.

Mr Koh also told the court that Li had been suffering from balance disorder for a long time and hearing loss in her left ear. The hearing in her right ear has also deteriorated severely in the past few years.

Li could have been jailed for up to three years and fined up to $7,500 for causing hurt to the domestic worker.

 

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Cleaner gets 12 months' jail for molesting 12-year-old girl on a crowded bus

Muhammad Aszly Amran pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months' jail on May 24, 2016, for molesting a minor.

Published May 24, 2016, 3:58 pm SGT
Rachel Chia

SINGAPORE - A Malaysian man repeatedly touched the groin of a 12-year-old girl on a crowded bus while she was on her way to school in February.

Cleaner Muhammad Aszly Amran, 26, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months' jail on Tuesday (May 24) for molesting a minor.

The court heard that on Feb 3, Aszly and the girl, a Secondary 1 student, boarded SBS bus number 17 at about 6.30am.

Aszly stood beside the girl even though the bus was not crowded.

She was wearing her school PE T-shirt and skirt, and noticed Aszly glancing at her several times.

As the bus was travelling along Bedok North Avenue 4 about 15 minutes later, the driver made a sudden brake, causing the bus to jerk. At this point, Aszly groped the girl's groin area over her skirt, scratching her with his fingers in between her legs.

The girl tried to move away, but could not as the bus was too crowded by then.

She then tried to push Aszly away, but he continued touching her groin, and alighted five minutes later.

For his offence, Aszly could have received up to five years' jail, a fine and caning.

 

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Bangladeshi jailed 5 months for threat to send ex-lover's sex videos to family and friends

A Bangladeshi national was sentenced to five months' jail after admitting to threatening a woman between March 27 and April 4 this year.

Published May 24, 2016, 3:49 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - A Bangladeshi national filmed himself having sex with a married Singaporean woman, then threatened to send the explicit video clip to her friends and family.

On Tuesday (May 24), the 42-year-old man was sentenced to five months' jail after admitting to threatening the woman, aged 38, between March 27 and April 4 this year. He was initially scheduled to go for trial but changed his mind and pleaded guilty on Monday (May 23). Neither he nor the complainant can be named due to a gag order.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan David Lim said the pair were in an intermittent relationship from around 2007 to 2013. They broke up in 2014 and he returned to Bangladesh.

He returned in early 2015 and tried to resume their relationship but she refused.

He told her he had multiple video clips of them having sex and the contact details of her family and neighbours. He sent her screenshots of the details to substantiate his claims.

He told her that they would have to meet before he would allow her to delete the video clips from his mobile phone.

The complainant had sex with him multiple times to try to have the video clips deleted. But the accused had saved several copies of the clips and the complainant was unable to delete all of them.

On Jan 28, 2016, while they were having sex, he filmed a video clip of the act without her knowledge, using his mobile phone.

From March 28 to April 6, as the complainant began ignoring him, he sent several messages to her over the WhatsApp messaging service, threatening to send the video clip to her friends and family.

On April 6, after the complainant did not reply to his messages, her husband and daughter each received a copy of the video clip from the accused's mobile phone.

When her daughter received it, she screamed from her room and shouted at her mother to tell the accused to stop disturbing her. The daughter then retrieved the phone belonging to her father and deleted the video clip that the accused had sent.

The accused could have been jailed for up to two years and fined for criminal intimidation.

 

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Woman sentenced to 11 months' jail for drug consumption and stealing $6,000 from mother

A 25-year-old woman was sentenced to 11 months' jail on Tuesday (May 24) on three charges of theft and taking drugs.

Published May 24, 2016, 2:12 pm SGT
Rachel Chia

SINGAPORE - Encouraged by her ex-boyfriend, a 25-year-old Chinese national consumed drugs and broke into her mother's house. She made off with jewellery and about $6,200 in cash.

Sun Weiyi, a permanent resident, was sentenced to 11 months' jail on Tuesday (May 24) on three charges of theft and taking drugs, with one other charge taken into consideration.

The court heard that in late August last year, Sun, a payroll executive at a hotel in Sentosa, had moved out of her mother's flat in Hougang.

On Sept 10, Sun returned to the flat while her mother was away on a business trip to Vietnam. On the pretext of retrieving her passport, Sun hired a locksmith to open her mother's safe and stole about $6,200 in cash.

Sun's ex-boyfriend, an unknown man named James, then gave her methamphetamine (known as "Ice"), which she consumed alone in a rented apartment.

On returning to Singapore, Sun's mother discovered the broken safe and suspected Sun might be behind the incident. She called the police.

Police arrested Sun on Oct 8 near her mother's flat and found drugs in her wallet.

In mitigation, Sun's lawyer Sng Kheng Huat said that she was suffering from depression and had taken the drugs in an attempt to self-medicate.

Sun's ex-boyfriend fled with the stolen money.

For possessing and consuming drugs, she could have been jailed up to 10 years and fined $20,000 for each charge.

For theft, she could have been jailed for up to seven years and fined.

 

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Man, 69, jailed nine months for molesting 15-year-old stepdaughter

The man was jailed for nine months for outraging the modesty of his stepdaughter in January this year.

Published May 25, 2016, 5:15 pm SGT
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

SINGAPORE - An American national, who molested his 15-year-old stepdaughter while he was here on a dependant's pass, was jailed for nine months on Wednesday (May 25).

The 69-year-old, who married the girl's mother last July, committed two counts of outraging the modesty of his stepdaughter on Jan 22 this year.

He admitted to tapping the girl's breast, cupping and squeezing her breast, and slipping his hands into her tights and touching her left buttock at a flat in the north-west of Singapore. The other charge was considered in sentencing.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Amanda Chong Wei-Zhen told the court that the Secondary 2 student was on the living room sofa using her tablet device when her stepfather approached her and tapped her once near her left rib cage to ask her to go for lunch in the kitchen.

He walked off. About a minute later, he repeated the act a few times. She acknowledged him and waved her hand to signal "okay'' to him but he continued to tap her.

He then moved his hand towards the side of her left breast. He tapped her breast, and then slowly lifted up the side of her shirt, exposing her sports bra. He molested her for about five seconds.

DPP Chong said the accused then moved his hand and slipped it under her yoga tights and panties, squeezing her buttock for about seven seconds. He kissed the side of her body and neck area.

He then tried to pull down her tights. She became so scared that she could not move during the incident, said the DPP.

At this juncture, her brother returned home and he stopped molesting the girl.

The girl told the school librarian about the molestation on Feb 2. The school notified the Ministry of Social and Family Development. A police report was made the next day.

The man told police that he molested the girl because he had a strong urge and could not control himself.

Citing aggravating factors, DPP Chong said the girl was young and the accused abused his position of trust and authority placed on him .

Pleading for leniency, the accused said he was remorseful, knew that what he did was "extremely wrong'', and seeks forgiveness from the courts and the victim.

He could have been jailed for up to two years and for using criminal force to outrage the modesty of the victim.

 

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Man arrested for trying to swim into Singapore

Saturday, Jun 4, 2016

SINGAPORE - A man has been arrested for unlawful entry into Singapore, police said in a press statement on Saturday (June 4).

Police Coast Guard (PCG) and the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) discovered a "floating object" believed to be a swimmer off Woodlands Checkpoint at 9.36am this morning.
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The swimmer was arrested and identified to be a 46-year-old Malaysian man.

Under the Immigration Act, the penalties for overstaying and illegal entry are a jail term of up to six months plus a minimum of three strokes of the cane.

Investigations are ongoing.

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Woman jailed 4 weeks for sham marriage

Published 52 min ago
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent

She was unhappy that her boyfriend broke up with her and wanted him back.

She decided to register a marriage using his name and wanted to change the name of her son's father on the birth certificate to his.

The woman, now 32 and a finance assistant, was then married but not living with her husband. She is not named as the courts have asked that her son not be identified.
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She came to know her boyfriend and got into a relationship with him in 2010. During this time, she gave birth to a boy and her husband was stated as the boy's father in the birth certificate. She obtained a divorce the following year.

Some time in 2012, the boyfriend suspected the boy was not his, and broke up with her.

She then committed two offences of conspiracy with Mr Matthew Yeo Chia Loong. She admitted to abetting Mr Yeo, 32, to pose as her 31-year-old ex-boyfriend to deceive a licensed solemniser into signing the certificate of marriage on Oct 25, 2012.

She had also abetted him to falsely declare before a commissioner for oaths from the Re- gistry of Marriages that he was her former boyfriend to register the marriage.

Yesterday, she was jailed for four weeks for the two offences.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Chew Xin Ying said the accused went on with her plan to register the marriage between herself and her ex-boyfriend when she knew that he did not and would not consent to marrying her. She had obtained his identity card without his knowledge.

She then asked Mr Yeo to help her impersonate her ex-boyfriend, and he agreed.

Both went to the Registry Of Marriage (ROM) on Oct 25, 2012. Mr Yeo forged the signature of her ex-boyfriend and obtained the marriage certificate.

The woman and Mr Yeo then proceeded to Din Tai Fung at I12 Katong to meet the marriage solemniser. After the solemniser checked their identity card numbers, they said their vows, exchanged rings and signed on the certificate.

ROM has confirmed that a Family Court order has to be obtained to void the marriage as the man's identity was misused to register a marriage.

The ex-boyfriend reported her to the police on Nov 7, 2012 after the woman sent him a photo of the marriage certificate containing his and her names.

Defence lawyer Diana Ngiam said her client was suffering from acute stress after her boyfriend ended their relationship.

She said her client is very sorry. She could have been jailed for up to three years and fined on each charge.

 

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Indonesian maid held over employer's murder

Police carrying out investigations at 50C, Lorong H in Telok Kurau, where the alleged stabbings took place after 8pm yesterday. Police have classified the case as murder and are investigating.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

Published 28 min ago

She allegedly stabbed couple who employed her, killing a woman and injuring her husband

Lin Yangchen
Yuen Sin

A 23-year-old Indonesian maid was arrested last night after she allegedly stabbed the couple who employed her, killing a woman and leaving her husband requiring surgery for his wounds.

Neighbours said they heard little until the peace of the private estate in Telok Kurau was shattered by ambulances and police cars arriving at the three-storey semi-detached house at 50C, Lorong H, where the alleged stabbings took place after 8pm.

The man who was stabbed - believed to be Mr Ong Kian Soon, 57 - was eventually taken to Changi General Hospital (CGH).

Police received a call about the incident at 8.48pm. When officers arrived, they discovered the motionless body of a 59-year-old woman in a toilet on the second floor.

Paramedics pronounced her dead at 9.03pm.

Police have classified the case as murder and are investigating.

The Straits Times understands that the maid had used a knife to attack her employers.

It is believed that Mr Ong went upstairs after he heard a commotion in the toilet. When he opened the door, the maid allegedly charged at him with a knife and a tussle ensued. He managed to subdue the maid, who is believed to have been injured in the tussle as well.

Neighbours The Straits Times spoke to appeared shocked as it dawned on them that a killing had taken place in their estate.

One bystander said he saw an ambulance and four police cars leave the scene at about 9.15pm.

Three Malaysians who were passing by said they heard a man cry for help and saw him running towards the front gate holding the maid. He had two wounds on his neck. The trio, who declined to be named, added that they helped restrain her.

Officers continued to gather evidence and, by 11pm, the house and a stretch of road in front had been cordoned off.

When The Straits Times arrived at the scene, a man was seen crying outside the house, which had a red banner and lanterns above the front door.

Another man asked to be left alone as he had just lost his mother.

At CGH, a nurse told family members that Mr Ong had to go for surgery, and said in Mandarin that he had "lost a lot of blood". She later told them to go home and return in the morning. She added: "Don't agitate him when you talk to him, if not he will bleed."

Police officers had not removed the victim's body from the crime scene at press time.