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Quiz of the day: What do these criminals have in common?

You used your energy wrongly.

Please single out ALL FTs that have committed crime in Singapore. That would be better.
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MUM, DAUGHTER PAYS $5,000 TO SETTLE MAID ABUSE CASE
02 Jul 2010
Source: The Straits Times

IN A rare move yesterday, a woman and her mother were acquitted of maid abuse after a district court allowed them to compound the offence for $5,000.

Compounding an offence requires the consent of the victim, the prosecution and the court.

Typically, only minor offences such as wrongful restraint or causing hurt can be compounded, and lawyers said such a move is rare in cases of maid abuse.

The last reported case of a maid abuse case being compounded was in April. Then, a bank executive was cleared after paying $5,000 compensation.

Madam Chandrakala Govinda-rajoo, 33, a MediaCorp senior administration executive, and her mother Kassiammal V. Sinnathamby, 66, were granted a discharge amounting to an acquittal.

Madam Chandrakala was initially accused of slapping and kicking her maid, Ms Tarinah, in June last year. She also faced another charge of hitting the maid's head twice with a plastic bowl.

Her mother faced a charge of stepping on Ms Tarinah's hands while the 24-year-old maid was folding clothes in their Choa Chu Kang Crescent flat last year.

At the hearing yesterday, Assistant Public Prosecutor Darren Tan told District Judge Roy Neighbour that the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) would not object to the women's offer of compensation. It is believed this is because the maid's account had some inconsistencies that could damage the prosecution's case.

After their acquittals, Madam Chandrakala and her mother said they were 'relieved'. Their lawyer, Mr Rajan Supramaniam, said Ms Tarinah was the family's second maid, and had worked for three months. They had since employed a third maid.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM), however, said it is investigating how the employer managed to get another maid.

It added: 'Any employer and members of his/her household will be barred from hiring another foreign domestic worker (FDW) during the course of investigation.

'This is to prevent any FDW from facing the same circumstances in the same household. In this particular case, the official employer, Mr Murali, should not have been granted a work permit for another FDW while members of his household were under investigation.

'MOM is looking into how this could have happened.

MOM will also review whether the current FDW in this household should be permitted to continue to work in the household.'

Ms Tarinah declined to be interviewed.

Ms Bridget Lew, president of the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics, said she was against compounding. She added: 'Anyone who hurts a domestic worker at home, a place out of the public eye, no matter how slightly, should feel the heavy hand of the law.'

However, Mr Subhas Anandan, president of the Association of Criminal Lawyers, thinks it depends on the case: 'The AGC carefully considers the nature of the evidence and the strengths and weaknesses of the case before deciding if compounding the offence would be in the best interest of all parties.'
 
They are all of one Colour?

The most obvious common factor noticeable is - That the person who compiled this list of fotos and posted it here had gone to great lengths to filter out and choose the ones with the image he wanted to portray..about his own small teeny weeny bit of a mind.
 
wahlaneh...
all criminals have 1 thing in common -regardless of race, language or religion- go n squad behind iron bars.
 
Why do you think only Indians are beaten up in Melbourne?

So many Asians have lived there and only Indians are getting beaten up.
 
wahlanleh i pity you man every post that you type must type out wahlaneh

wahlaneh...
is that also a criminal offence?:D
aiyah just a bad habit only mah.
just like some people always say walaueh, alamak, aiyoyo, etc... mah.;)
 
wahlaneh...
is that also a criminal offence?:D
aiyah just a bad habit only mah.
just like some people always say walaueh, alamak, aiyoyo, etc... mah.;)

wahlaneh Since when did i say it's an offence i just pity that to keep up this persona you need to key in wahlaneh wahlanehwahlaneh wahlaneh wahlaneh so many times.
 
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NSF jailed for firing revolver by accident at airport
14 Oct 2010

SOURCE: The Straits Times

A FULL-TIME national serviceman (NSF) was fiddling with his service revolver when a shot was fired, cracking the glass panel of a police sentry post at Changi Airport.

Yesterday, District Judge Low Wee Ping sentenced Mohammed Sikandar Shah Ismathinoon (above), 22, to a month’s jail for his life-endangering act at the entrance to the VIP Complex on May 22.

The court heard that he was on security duty that evening when he realised that the lanyard of his police uniform had become entangled with the cocking hammer of his Taurus revolver.

He drew it from its holster and managed to disentangle it soon after, but instead of putting the revolver back into the holster, he cocked the weapon out of mischief. :rolleyes:

And as his finger was on the trigger and his thumb on the weapon’s cocking hammer, he slowly squeezed the trigger to uncock the revolver. But his thumb slipped and the weapon went off, causing a spider-web crack across a glass panel.

Sikandar is the second NSF in a month to be convicted of such an offence. Just a month ago, Judge Low handed down a month’s jail term to ex-NSF special constable Ahmad Sulaiman Perwira, 21. He was playing a prank on colleagues at the Transport Command base in Paya Lebar Road in February when his revolver went off.
 
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Three men ambushed lorry carrying handphones and killed driver
05 Oct 2010

SOURCE: The Straits Times

TWO men, who were originally convicted of murder two years ago, were yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail and 15 strokes of the cane for robbery with hurt.

Daniel Vijay Katherasan and Christopher Samson Anpalagan, both 27, escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal ruled last month that the pair did not know a third accomplice, Nakamuthu Balakrishnan, 51, would cause the death of lorry driver Wan Cheon Kem.

They were then convicted of robbery with hurt, but are appealing against their sentences.

The duo were part of a three-man team who ambushed a lorry loaded with 2,700 mobile phones in May 2006, with the intention of taking the loot worth $1.3 million.

During the robbery in Changi Coast Road, Nakamuthu bashed the lorry driver with a baseball bat. Mr Wan, 46, who took at least 15 blows to his head and body, died six days later in hospital.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Amarjit Singh asked Justice Tay Yong Kwang to mete out a sentence of not less than the 161/2 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane handed to Arsan Krishnasamy Govindarajoo, 40, one of two men who hatched the plan.

He said Daniel Vijay and Christopher Samson did not bother to seek medical attention for the badly injured victim, who might not have died if he had had medical help.

DPP Singh also said the plan called for taking over the lorry by force and the two men must have known Mr Wan would be hurt.

In reply to arguments for leniency by defence lawyers – that both men had turned themselves over to police custody voluntarily – DPP Singh said this counted for little as the police were on to them and it was only a matter of time before they would have been caught.

In their submission for a lighter sentence, Daniel Vijay’s lawyers James Masih and Amarick Gill said their client had gone absent without official leave during his national service in 2006 to support his wife and three children, now aged six, nine and 10.

Daniel Vijay’s initial role was to drive the stolen lorry. He had hoped that he would be better off after the sale of the stolen cellphones.

Christopher Samson’s lawyers Subhas Anandan and Sunil Sudheesan said their client was extremely remorseful that a life had been lost.

They argued that their client deserved a much shorter jail term than Arsan, who had suggested hitting Mr Wan until he became unconscious, to prevent him from recognising the perpetrators.

Both sets of lawyers were assigned to represent the two men by the High Court as it was a capital case.

To date, 10 men involved in the heist have been dealt with. The other mastermind was driver Ragu Ramajayam, 37, Mr Wan’s colleague. He has been given six years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane.

KHUSHWANT SINGH
 
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