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  • Man Stole To Satisfy Fetish For Women’s Wallets, Jailed 3 Years

    Man Stole To Satisfy Fetish For Women’s Wallets, Jailed 3 Years

    A serial thief with a fetish for women’s leather wallets, who has spent 17 years of his life behind bars, is back in jail for another three years for his latest stealing spree.

    Low Ji Qing, 50, lost his appeal to the High Court on Wednesday to be given a lighter sentence for his most recent series of offences.

    Low has been in and out of jail since 1986 for theft. He was spared a prison sentence twice in 2011 and given probation.

    He was last jailed for 13 months in March 2013.

    Shortly after he was released from prison, he stole a wallet and mobile phone from a woman’s bag in an unattended trolley at Giant hypermart in VivoCity.

    He claimed that he took the items out of frustration over a dispute he had with the boss of the restaurant where he worked.

    He was arrested and sent to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), where he was diagnosed with fetishism, a sexual fixation on non-living objects – in his case, women’s wallets.

    In August last year, while out on bail, he stole the wallet of a woman who had left her handbag in a trolley while shopping at the Ikea furniture store in Alexandra Road.

    Low later placed the wallet back into the handbag but a passer-by who noticed him behaving suspiciously alerted the victim.

    A week later, he struck at the same store, taking a phone from the handbag of a woman while her attention was diverted. He was admitted to the IMH again.

    The prosecution said there was no causal link between his theft in the last two cases and his condition of fetishism.

    Low pleaded guilty to three theft charges in December and was given a three-year jail sentence.

    On Wednesday, he appealed for a shorter jail term, arguing that his condition had improved and that he had returned one of the wallets.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • He Smuggled Seven Puppies, Now He Will Be Jailed 8 Months

    He Smuggled Seven Puppies, Now He Will Be Jailed 8 Months

    A 25-year-old Malaysian man was sentenced to a total of eight months’ jail on Thursday (Apr 16) for smuggling seven puppies into Singapore, the Agri-food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said in a joint news release.

    For importing the dogs without relevant permits, he was slapped with a jail term of five months, and for subjecting them to unnecessary suffering or pain, he was sentenced to 3 months’ prison. The sentences will run consecutively.

    The man was stopped by ICA officers at Woodlands Checkpoint for routine checks at about 8.20pm on Mar 30.

    ICA officers found seven live puppies hidden underneath the front passenger seat. One of the puppies was found dead, while the remaining six appeared to be sedated, the agencies said.

    AVA said after investigations that the puppies did not have food or water during their journey. Five of the puppies subsequently deteriorated in condition and died due to to illness, while the remaining puppy is under quarantine at AVA’s Sembawang Animal Quarantine Station (SAQS), where it is being observed for signs of infectious or contagious disease.

    AVA highlighted the danger of smuggling animals into Singapore. AVA prosecutor, Yap Teck Chuan, said: “The danger of the introduction of diseases, such as rabies, into Singapore is real. The efforts of AVA and other authorities in regulating importation and enforcing quarantine measures, in order to ensure the safety of Singaporeans, will be futile if offenders continue to import puppies from dubious sources through illegal means.”

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Another Police Report Lodged Against Amos Yee For Allegedly Infringing Court Order

    Another Police Report Lodged Against Amos Yee For Allegedly Infringing Court Order

    A police report has been filed against teenager Amos Yee for allegedly infringing a court order by reproducing contents of his online rant about Christianity and an offensive video about the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

    The complaint was filed yesterday by retired policeman Lionel de Souza, 72, in his capacity as assistant secretary of the People’s Action Party’s Hougang branch.

    Police confirmed yesterday that a report was filed.

    Amos, 16, was charged on March 31 with attacking Christianity, transmitting an obscene image, and making an online video that insulted Mr Lee.

    He was out on bail of $20,000.

    The video, called Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!, was uploaded on March 27, four days after Mr Lee’s death.

    More than 20 police reports were lodged against Amos and as of yesterday, the video had been viewed over 880,000 times.

    When he was charged, prosecutors asked that additional conditions be imposed.

    These were that Amos undertake not to post, upload or otherwise distribute any comment or content online while his case was ongoing. He agreed.

    In the police report, Mr de Souza said Amos could be in contempt of court because on Tuesday, he posted “what the court prohibited him to do”.

    This was when he went online in a blogpost headlined “Donate To Help Amos Yee” to raise $30,000 for legal fees. The blogpost included links to the offensive videos and postings.

    In the post he said: “I’ve already saved up a considerable amount of money by insisting that I’d only have lawyers who are able to represent me, pro bono. But unfortunately, there is still the inevitable cost of court fees, bail money all the nitty-gritties that makes a trial notoriously expensive, lawyers excessively rich and something that the common folk would never wish to touch with a 8-foot pole.”

    Amos could not be contacted by phone for comment yesterday.

    This is not the first such fund-raising effort. Blogger Roy Ngerng, who was found last November to have defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, turned to crowd-funding last May to help pay his legal fees.

    On Wednesday, Mr Ngerng said on Facebook that Amos was being “politically prosecuted” and directed viewers to Amos’ crowd-funding blogpost.

    A pre-trial conference on the the charges against Amos is scheduled for today.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Man Who Snatched Mobile Phone Of 9 Year Old Arrested

    Man Who Snatched Mobile Phone Of 9 Year Old Arrested

    A man has been arrested for allegedly snatching a mobile phone from a nine-year-old boy.

    The boy was walking along the overhead bridge at Java Road towards Nicoll Highway at about 6.15am on Wednesday when the 27-year old man walked towards him from the opposite direction and snatched the phone, the police said in a statement on Thursday.

    The man fled and the victim approached a passer-by who called the police. The police identified the suspect after conducting investigations and viewing footage from several cameras in the area.

    The man was arrested on the same day of the incident, at about 9pm. The phone was found. Investigations are ongoing.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Saladworks In JEM Flooded

    Saladworks In JEM Flooded

    A salad shop in Jem mall in Jurong was flooded on Thursday evening.

    An employee of Saladworks, which is on the second floor of the Jurong East mall, said that the flood occurred at about 4.40pm, and that “water just started coming from the pipe”. She said she believed that units directly below the shop were also affected.

    When The Straits Times visited the shopping mall at 8.30pm, workers were seen mopping the floor outside the shop. The eatery was closed, and a section of its storefront blocked off from public access. Sandbags were placed near the entrance of the Paris Baguette cafe next door, which was still open for business.

    One floor below, an upriding escalator was out of service, and water was seen dripping from the ceiling.

    An employee working at PrettyFIT shoes store, which is two units away from Saladworks, said it was not the first time the eatery was flooded.

    The employee, who wanted to be known only as Yolanda, said: “A few months ago, near Christmas time, there was another flood. That was bad, it affected Paris Baguette and PrettyFIT.”

    Ms Yolanda added that a friend who works at the salad shop told her that the first flooding occurred because of a clogged pipe.

    Several incidents have been reported at the shopping mall which opened in June 2013, including at least two small fires, flooding when sprinklers came on unexpectedly and a ceiling collapse due to a burst water pipe.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

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