Vietnamese NUS undergrad stole phone and laptops
30 Oct 2009
Source: The Straits Times
A Vietnamese national was yesterday jailed for four weeks for theft and fraudulent possession of items that were not his.
Pham Le Tuan Kiet, 24, had earlier been found guilty of having with him a cellphone and two laptop computers, which he could not account for satisfactorily in October last year, when he was arrested.
When asked to operate the laptops, the then final-year National University of Singapore chemical engineering undergraduate claimed he could not do so because they were protected by passwords which he had forgotten.
Pham, who has a theft conviction, pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing a $15 polo shirt that same month from a fellow undergraduate. Another theft charge was taken into consideration.
