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  • Second Armed Robbery Case In Two Days Took Place At A Western Union Branch; Made Off With More Than $2,000

    Second Armed Robbery Case In Two Days Took Place At A Western Union Branch; Made Off With More Than $2,000

    In the second armed robbery case in two days, a man wielding a knife made off with more than S$2,000 from a Western Union branch at Ubi Avenue 1 on Tuesday (Aug 1).

    Police said that no one was injured in the incident. The robber had forced an employee to hand over the cash before he fled on foot.

    The police first posted on Facebook that it was responding to an incident at 301 Ubi Avenue 1 at 11.19am, and confirmed around 35 minutes later that an armed robbery had taken place.

    The suspect was wearing a white helmet, black jacket and dark-coloured long pants, said the police. Investigations are ongoing.

    Staff in two shops near the Western Union branch said they heard a loud scream at around 10am, but did not see the suspect.

    A man who identified himself as the landlord of the shop space rented by Western Union also said he had spoken to the staff involved in the robbery, but declined to give further details.

    “(The staff) was shouting something like ‘Help me’ … definitely she’s scared,” said the man, who only wanted to be known as Mr Liu.

    Anyone with information can call the Police hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.

    Tuesday’s incident at Ubi came after another alleged armed robbery case at a Shell petrol station in Bukit Timah on Monday. A 48-year-old Singaporean man allegedly forced an employee at the petrol station to hand over more than S$1,100 in cash at knifepoint before fleeing on a scooter.

    He was arrested about four hours later along Jurong East Street 21. Nearly S$500 and bank receipts were found on him.

    Police said the suspect will be charged in court on Wednesday with armed robbery. If convicted, he faces imprisonment for a term of not less than two years and not more than 10 years, and shall also be punished with caning with not less than 12 strokes.

     

    Source: http://www.todayonline.com

  • Bangladeshi MacRitchie Reservoir Rapist Jailed 17 Years, Gets 24 Rotan Strokes

    Bangladeshi MacRitchie Reservoir Rapist Jailed 17 Years, Gets 24 Rotan Strokes

    Bangladeshi construction worker Pramanik Liton was on Friday (May 19) sentenced to 17 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane for raping a hiker at MacRitchie Reservoir Park in 2015.

    Liton, 24, was convicted of four charges, including two counts of aggravated rape, one count of sexual assault by penetration and one count of abduction for illicit intercourse. Another two charges were taken into consideration. Prosecutors had sought a jail term of at least 20 years and 24 strokes.

    The construction worker had left his dormitory on the morning of Feb 8, 2015, armed with a 16cm-long knife and waited along the Lornie Trail for “easy prey”. When he spotted the victim walking alone, he approached her and struck up a conversation, pretending he needed directions.

    He asked the 40-year-old Chinese national to have sex with him, and when she refused, he pulled out the knife and used it against her. The court heard the woman lost consciousness at one point, when Liton covered her mouth and nose with one hand while pressing the knife to her neck with the other.

    He later raped her “so forcefully” that the woman screamed in pain, the prosecution said. Then Liton offered her S$50 to “buy medicine so she would not get pregnant”. DNA tests found his semen in the victim’s mouth and vagina and on her panties.

    “BIZARRE AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE” DEFENCE

    But Liton denied the charges, and on Thursday, insisted he did not touch the victim, much less rape her. He claimed then that he did not talk to her, but only made sounds.

    “I just tried to scare her and she died out of fear,” he said.

    “No woman should have to fear she may be abducted and raped at knifepoint while talking a walk in the park in broad daylight, most certainly not in Singapore,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Stella Tan said then.

    In finding Liton guilty as charged, Justice Choo Han Teck called his defence “bizarre and incomprehensible”. “First, it was an outright denial, which against the weight of the evidence seems to be a defence of desperation.

    “Secondly, you claimed the victim had died. Clearly she had not, or this would have been the world’s first supernatural trial. I see nothing supernatural, only a traumatised woman who has convinced me you had committed the offences upon which you are being tried,” he said.

    Justice Choo added the victim’s evidence was “clear, cogent and consistent” and supported by the forensic evidence and Liton’s own early statements to the police, which, at trial, he denied ever making.

    When asked whether he had anything to say after he had been convicted, Liton said he had “made a mistake that I did not plead guilty in the first place. And also did not engage a lawyer (sic)”. He pleaded to be given the “minimum sentence”.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Security Executive To Be Jailed And Caned For Unlawful Possession Of Air Pistol And An Unexecuted Robbery Attempt

    Security Executive To Be Jailed And Caned For Unlawful Possession Of Air Pistol And An Unexecuted Robbery Attempt

    A security executive who was facing financial difficulties came up with an elaborate plan to rob a bank with an illegal air pistol – but got cold feet at the last minute and went to work instead.

    Ng Shi Qiang, 31, did extensive online research on bank heists and carried out reconnaissance missions at several banks here.

    He decided to target the POSB outlet in Block 926 Yishun Central 1 and turned up there on the morning of Oct 14, 2013, carrying a bag with the pistol and other equipment.

    Ng could not bring himself to carry out his plan to rush in the front door when two women arrived to unlock it, as he did not want to hurt them.

    He left and stashed the items in a dry riser unit at a nearby HDB block.

    But by the time he returned to retrieve them two days later, a resident had already discovered them and called the police.

    On Wednesday, Ng was jailed for five years and nine months and ordered to be given six strokes of the cane, after pleading guilty to having unlawful possession of the Beretta pistol. One other charge under the Arms Offences Act, for having various component parts of firearms, was taken into consideration.

    The court heard that Ng had received the air pistol from his 27-year-old brother, a regular serviceman in the Singapore Navy. His brother had brought it back from Taiwan in May 2013.

    He later decided to rob a bank to pay off his debts, which included $50,000 chalked up on credit cards and a $100,000 loan from his mother-in-law.

    Ng has two young children and previously worked as a security guard and army regular.

    He could have been jailed for between five and 10 years, and ordered to be given at least six strokes of the cane.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com