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  • Woman Who Threw pork At Malay Neighbour’s Flat In Tampines Pleads Guilty

    Woman Who Threw pork At Malay Neighbour’s Flat In Tampines Pleads Guilty

    The woman who threw pork at a Malay neighbour’s flat in Tampines pleaded guilty to two charges on Thursday (27 April).

    Lee Dji Lin, 63, admitted to one charge of deliberately wounding the religious and racial feelings of her neighbour and another charge under the Protection of Harassment Act (POHA) before District Judge Eddy Tham in the State Courts. Another charge under POHA was taken into consideration.

    Lee committed the offences against her neighbour, Marliah Jonet, 61, in June last year.

    In July last year, Marliah spoke to Yahoo Singapore about the incidents and said that Lee had been harassing her family for six years. Former model Hanis Hussey, Marliah’s sister-in-law, posted a video on YouTube last year, allegedly showing Lee being caught in the act.

    Reading from the statement of facts, Deputy Public Prosecutor Ruth Teng said that Marliah lodged a police report that someone had thrown pork meat outside her flat in Tampines.

    On 18 June 2016, Marliah opened the door to let her daughter in, and she noticed what appeared to be a piece of raw meat outside her flat. She decided to view footage recorded in her CCTV, which she had installed outside her flat.

    The footage revealed that Lee had thrown the meat from a lift towards Marliah’s flat. Forensic investigations later confirmed that the meat was pork.

    The court also heard that on 14 June 2016, Marliah heard Lee shouting from her kitchen window. Marliah’s flat is located on the ninth floor while Lee was staying directly below her.

    When Marliah went to her kitchen, she saw Lee holding a bamboo pole with a female undergarment attached to the end of the pole and swinging it upwards, towards her kitchen window.

    Judge Tham ordered Lee to get a Mandatory Treatment Order suitability report from the Institute of Mental Health. Lee will be back in court on 25 May for sentencing.

     

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    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • 6 Months Imprisonment For Attacker OF Madrasah Students

    6 Months Imprisonment For Attacker OF Madrasah Students

    A single act of racially aggravated violence wounds the victim, and by extension, the collective interest of society, said a district judge on Friday (May 20) as he sentenced a former security officer to six months’ jail.

    Koh Weng Onn, who attacked three madrasah students on April 1 this year, had pleaded guilty to two charges — causing hurt with racial aggravation, as well as committing a rash act causing hurt.

    District Judge Mathew Joseph noted that 48-year-old Koh, who suffers from a disorder with delusions of persecution, had made 355 police reports since 2008, many of them against Malay and Indian subjects.

    “The racial pattern in these reports poses a risk of the accused getting into similar situations (again),” he said.

    According to court documents, Koh started to have a bad impression of Malays several years ago, when he confronted a group for allegedly talking about him, and claimed that they started to hit him until he ran away.

    Around 7pm on March 31 this year, Koh was walking towards a coffee shop at East Coast Road when he saw two Malay women cycling towards him. He took a chair and pushed it towards them, sparking a dispute.

    A male Malay cyclist, who was behind the women, started having a shoving match with Koh. The police were called, and the parties apologised to each other.

    The next day, he was walking towards the MRT station along Paya Lebar Road at around 7.22am, when he passed a 16-year-old student. He suddenly kicked her and swore at her in Hokkien, leaving his victim shocked by the sudden blow.

    A minute later, Koh passed a 14-year-old student, and swung a plastic bag containing a filled 1.5-litre bottle towards the side of her face.

    As he entered Paya Lebar MRT Station and rode the escalator down, he saw a group of girls riding the escalator in the opposite direction.

    Koh waited till all of them, except the last girl, had passed him, before swinging his plastic bag at the 14-year-old’s face.

    Koh later defended himself, saying that the sight of the three girls, all students of Madrasah Al-Maarif Al-Islamiah, reminded him of the encounter with the cyclists, and thus angered him.

    Calling for a sentence of six months’ jail, Deputy Public Prosecutor Ang Feng Qian noted that Koh had confessed that he committed the offences because the victims were Malay. He also chose the girls specifically because they were young and female, to reduce the chances of retaliation and reprisal, she added.

    Defence lawyer Sunil Sudheesan, who pleaded for a jail term of three months, said Koh’s delusions had contributed to his offences.

    Mr Sunil added that the fact that an anonymous entrepreneur from an Arab-Muslim family had stepped forward to seek legal help for Koh and offered to foot his bills showed that Singaporeans are not “short-sighted”.

    Mr Sunil said: “They know the difference between someone who is a racist and a bigot, and someone who has (a) mental illness.”

    District Judge Joseph noted that Koh’s family had apologised on his behalf previously. “In a world (divided) by sectarian strife, the exhortation to love your neighbour becomes exceedingly crucial. And it’s all the more important for a nation like Singapore,” the judge said.

    Koh’s older brother, Mr Muhammad Johan Koh, told TODAY that the family accepted the sentence, adding: “He knew he committed an offence and needs to face the consequences. After serving his sentence, he will resume his treatment at the Institute of Mental Health. We will get the help we need to get him better.”

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • IMH Resident Charged For Abusing IMH Employees

    IMH Resident Charged For Abusing IMH Employees

    When she was warded at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), she abused two employees there. She was then put in a welfare home, where she damaged a room and tried to commit suicide.

    Then, while being assessed at IMH to see if she was suitable for a mandatory treatment order, Joanne Lim Wan Ting punched a nurse.

    Yesterday, the 23-year-old was sentenced to five months’ jail for a string of misdemeanours, including two counts of voluntarily causing hurt and one count of wilfully destroying the property of a welfare home.

    Lim has borderline personality disorder, where one has difficulty regulating their emotions, but is understood to have been of sound mind during the offences.

    Last November, Lim punched and pulled the hair of IMH nurse Thein Thein Moe, 44, when the latter was trying to stop her from banging her head on a glass counter because she was angry the nurse could not immediately attend to her.

    In March, while living at the Angsana Home @ Pelangi Village in Buangkok Green, she was taken to a padded cell for safety reasons after shouting and throwing her food on the floor. Lim tore fabric off the wall lining and tried to strangle herself with it.

    On April 13, Lim punched the head of IMH senior staff nurse Lim Theng Theng, 61, multiple times because she was unhappy staying at IMH and the nurse would sometimes scold her for not behaving herself.

    At the time, Lim was being assessed for suitability for a mandatory treatment order.

    In court yesterday, Lim told State Courts judge May Mesenas that she was sorry and was unsure where she would be living after her release from prison. She also agreed to cooperate if she were to be admitted to a welfare home again.

    Asked about its standard procedures when staff members are assaulted at work, an IMH spokesperson said employees may lodge a police report.

    “The management of IMH will not tolerate any form of abuse on our staff, be it verbal or physical,” she said. “However, sometimes, patients who hit our staff may be very unwell and have no insight into their actions. In such cases, our staff would usually choose not to make a police report.”

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Muslimah Shares Story on Bipolar Disorder

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    SINGAPORE – Sanity and happiness, Mark Twain once wrote, is an impossible combination.

    In Yohanna Abdullah‘s case, it is all too true. She cannot afford to get too happy because that would trigger something in her brain and make her do outrageous things.

    Like sunbathing in her underwear in Kallang Park, singing, dancing and flirting with strangers in public, and even marrying a foreigner she met online but barely knew.

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    The 47-year-old publications executive has bipolar disorder, a mental illness characterised by severe mood swings, from depressed (“low”) to manic (“high”).

    Ms Yohanna has been diagnosed as Bipolar Type 1, which means she is prone to mania.

    “I am generally a modest person but when I am high, I’m uninhibited and say or do as if there is no wrong or right. Whatever is right is what feels right at the moment,” she says.

    She was diagnosed with the condition – which experts say is caused by many factors ranging from genetic to social – more than 15 years ago.

    The divorcee and mother of two children, aged 17 and 19, believes it was triggered by a combination of factors: mother-in-law issues, the stress of juggling work and motherhood, financial problems and the discovery of her former husband’s affair with a colleague.

    Her meltdown shocked many who knew her to be Miss Congeniality, an intelligent woman with a bubbly disposition and a promising future.

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    Chatty and articulate, Ms Yohanna is still grappling with the condition which turned her life into a roller-coaster ride, but says medication and the support of loved ones have helped her to manage it a lot better.

    She had only a brief attack last year. This was a far cry from two years ago, when she had to be hospitalised in the Institute of Mental Health on at least 10 occasions.

    Source: Asiaone