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  • Probation Sentence Overturned, Voyeur Going To Jail

    Probation Sentence Overturned, Voyeur Going To Jail

    A man who was initially given probation for various offences, including filming family members of his girlfriend in the shower, making an up-skirt video, and possessing 10,574 obscene films, will be heading to jail after all.

    In his ruling on Tuesday (Mar 17), Justice Chan Seng Onn described the initial sentence as “manifestly inadequate” and ordered that Chong Hou En be jailed for 16 weeks.

    The prosecution had appealed against Chong’s sentence of 30 months’ split probation.

    The 29-year-old had been convicted of five counts of insulting the modesty of a woman by intruding on her privacy. Back in 2011, he was caught red-handed by a victim’s husband, filming an up-skirt video at IMM shopping mall in Jurong. The former labour relations officer had stuck a mini-camera to the tip of his shoe for this purpose.

    Following his arrest for that up-skirt video, subsequent investigations uncovered thousands of obscene videos in his computer.

    It was also found that Chong installed a camera disguised as a lighter in the toilet of his girlfriend’s parents’ home from August 2010. Thereafter, he filmed her older sister, his girlfriend’s two nieces, aged 10 and 12 at the time, and his girlfriend’s sister-in-law.

    Justice Chan noted that in sentencing Chong to probation, the district judge had placed considerable weight on medical evidence that Chong was suffering from the psychiatric condition of voyeurism.

    However, in his judgement, Justice Chan took into account aggravating factors such as the high degree of planning and premeditation in Chong’s acts, and the fact that there were multiple victims – two of them very young.

     

    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

  • Little India Riot Instigator Gets 3-Strokes Of The Cane

    Little India Riot Instigator Gets 3-Strokes Of The Cane

    A man who was involved in the Little India riot on Dec 8 last year was sentenced to receive three strokes of the cane on Friday (Nov 28), to add to a 25-month prison sentence he had earlier received.

    Indian national Samiyappan Sellathurai was previously sentenced to 25 months imprisonment on Aug 14 for his involvement in the riot.

    But Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Sellakumaran Sellamuthoo told the High Court before Justice Chan Seng Onn that Samiyappan’s imprisonment term was “manifestly inadequate”, given that the 42-year-old had not only participated in the riot, but had also instigated the crowd.

    “The respondent instigated others to help him remove a concrete slab that was used to pave the ground. The Respondent had tried to do so on his own but failed, as the slab was heavy and stuck to the ground. After the crowd joined in — in response to the respondent’s instigation — the concrete slab was dislodged.

    “During the time frame between 10.09pm and 10.19pm, the respondent threw a total of eight pieces of concrete in the direction of the public vehicles and public servants. The crowd, which prior to this was non-violent, followed the respondent’s lead and started to dislodge other concrete slabs, break them and used them as projectiles.

    “The respondent then continued his streak of creating chaos and unrest by inciting others to help carry a small metal rack and ram it against a side wall of the Little India MRT station,” DPP Sellakumaran told the court while showing a video of CCTV footage taken at the time of the riot.

    A total of 25 individuals have been charged in court since for their respective roles and involvement in the riot in Little India.

    Before meting out the sentence on the grounds that Samiyappan had instigated the crowds and also vandalised public property, Justice Chan said that Samiyappan was “considered lucky” that the prosecution had not appealed for a longer prison term.

    “Viewing the video, it is clear that the respondent was the ringleader and instigated the crowd. In this case of rioting, vandalism was involved. Not only vandalism but destruction of government property,” Justice Chan said.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com