Former Funky Chef gets 1 month jail for fatal traffic accident
Published on May 11, 2012
Private chef Melvyn Lee Shang Bin, was sentenced to one month jail for causing the death of a motorcyclist and injuring a female car passenger on an expressway in 2009. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Khushwant Singh
A private chef, who used to be in the cooking duo called The Funky Chefs, was sentenced on Friday to a month in jail for driving negligently and causing the death of a motorcyclist on an expressway in 2009.
Melvyn Lee Shang Bin was also fined $2,500 for endangering the life of a passenger of the car he sideswiped in the same accident.
The 26-year-old was further disqualified from driving for five years. He is appealing against both conviction and sentence.
During the eight-day trial, a district court heard that Lee was driving his father's orange Nissan Murano on the right lane of the four-lane East Coast Parkway on Oct 18, 2009, when he veered towards the left and side-swiped a white car on the next lane.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
