Man admits repeatedly harassing ex-lover, threatening to injure her teen son and drug-related offences
Yap Kian Sing, 49, pleaded guilty to charges related to stalking and harassing his ex-lover and her 13-year-old son and threatening to injure the teen. He also pleaded guilty to drug-related offences.
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- A man harassed and stalked his ex-lover and her 13-year-old son, and even threatened to injure him
- Yap Kian Sing, 49, pleaded guilty on Thursday (April 20) to five charges of stalking, harassment and drug-related offences
- Nine similar charges are being taken into consideration
- District Judge Marvin Bay is set to sentence Yap on May 22
BY
NUR HIKMAH MD ALI
Published April 20, 2023Updated April 20, 2023
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SINGAPORE — Unable to accept their break-up, a man harassed and stalked his ex-lover and her 13-year-old son, and even threatened to injure the teen.
Yap Kian Sing, 49, pleaded guilty on Thursday (April 20) to five charges of stalking, harassment and drug-related offences, including one of trafficking.
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Nine similar charges will be taken into consideration when Yap is sentenced by Judge Marvin Bay, scheduled for May 22.
The man's ex-lover, identified only as “Mdm N” in court documents, lodged a police report on Sept 10, 2020, about the harassment, including being stalked as she worked as a delivery driver, being threatened via texts and having her number posted on websites for sexual services.
Yap also posted her personal details on social networking sites, and created social media accounts to befriend her son, her son’s friend and his teacher.
WHAT HAPPENED
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The couple broke up in about June or July 2020. After that, the victim had moved out of Yap’s residence.
However, he was unable to accept the break-up and started sending her threatening messages and stalking her.
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When she blocked him, he created new social media accounts to message her son instead so that the messages would still reach her.
He also posted her personal details, such as her previous convictions, social media handles, images of the front and back of her NRIC card, and her phone number, on his Instagram and Facebook account.
Yap would also use his friends’ phone numbers to contact the victim after she blocked him.
Given the ongoing harassment, she kept her residential address from him to avoid being targeted at her home.
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After a series of threatening messages, on March 22, 2021, Yap sent her a WhatsApp text message threatening to go to her son’s school implying that he would “throw him” off a building.
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This alarmed her as she believed that Yap was capable of carrying out the threat due to his drug addiction.
STALKED AND HARASSED EX-LOVER ON FIVE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS
In August and September 2020, Yap stalked and harassed the victim on five different occasions.On Aug 21, 2020, he followed her while she was on duty delivering items.
Yap then approached her, disrupted her from carrying out her work by opening and closing her lorry doors, and also threatened that he would take unspecified action if she refused to return to his residence.
On another occasion, he sent her an email containing a photograph of two knives, asking which one she preferred, with the intention to scare her.
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He had also created a Facebook account and uploaded her NRIC details and details of her previous involvement with the police.
Yap also created an Instagram account to befriend her son and send him threatening and insulting messages, including profanities and insults to the victim.
ARRESTED FOR DRUG-RELATED OFFENCES
On Aug 18, 2021, Yap was arrested by officers of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in a raid at a Hotel 81 room.CNB officers searched the room and found 12 packets of drugs, including methamphetamine and a crystalline substance, in tamper-proof bags.
He had collected these packets from a man known to him as “Ban”.
Though he had not asked what he was picking up, he knew from prior experience that they contained illegal drugs and would include methamphetamine, court documents stated.
He was instructed by Ban to either drop off these packets at a pre-arranged location or someone would collect them from him.
He was also told that he could sell eight of the drug packets for S$60 to S$100 each.
Yap then took the drugs to his friend’s Hotel 81 room, where he was arrested.
He underwent a urine test at CNB headquarters, which came out positive for methamphetamine.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Yvonne Poon said that this was not Yap’s first brush with the law, noting that he had prior cases involving drugs, unlicensed money lending and theft offences.
Yap was represented by lawyer Wee Hong Shern.
Anyone convicted of criminal intimidation can be jailed for up to two years, fined or both, while those convicted of stalking can be jailed for up to 12 months, fined up to S$5,000 or both.
Those convicted of consuming illegal drugs can be jailed for between three and 10 years, or fined S$20,000 or both, while those convicted of trafficking a controlled drug can be jailed for between 20 and 30 years, and receive 15 strokes of the cane.
