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  • Life Imprisonment And Death Sentence For Two Involved In 2010 Kallang Murder

    Life Imprisonment And Death Sentence For Two Involved In 2010 Kallang Murder

    Two men from Sarawak, Malaysia, convicted of murder for the brutal 2010 slashings here at Kallang were finally sentenced on Monday, with one headed to the gallows and the other jailed for life.

    Micheal Garing, 26, and Tony Imba, 36, were part of a gang that went on a robbery spree, severely injuring three victims and killing a fourth man.

    Both Michael and Tony were found guilty of murder last year after a 12-day trial the year before. It has been almost another year before they learnt their fates.

    Michael, whom High Court Judge Choo Han Tek had said that evidence showed was the one who had struck the dead man, was given the death sentence.

    Tony will be serving life in prison and given 24 strokes of the cane.

    Michael’s lawyer, Mr Ramesh Tiwary, said his client will be appealing his sentence.

    The pair and two accomplices had attacked and robbed the four men in the Kallang area from late in the night of May 29, 2010 until the early hours of the next day.

    Before the fatal assault on 41-year-old construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai, they set upon two construction workers from India – Mr Sandeep Singh, 27, and Mr Egan Karuppaiah, 46 – and Singaporean Ang Jun Heng, 22.

    The dead man had a fractured skull, a severed left hand, a slash wound across his neck and a back wound so deep that his shoulder blade was cracked.

    One accomplice, Donny Meluda, 23, is at large. The other, Hairee Landak, 22, was sentenced to 33 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane for armed robbery with grievous hurt. He testified in the trial.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • LTA May Take Action Against SMRT for Allowing ACS (I) to Five Charter MRT Trains Without Approval

    LTA May Take Action Against SMRT for Allowing ACS (I) to Five Charter MRT Trains Without Approval

    SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is looking at taking “appropriate action” against SMRT after Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) chartered five MRT trains to transport students and teachers to a rugby match on Tuesday (Aug 26).

    MediaCorp’s 938 Live reports that more than 3,000 students, staff and other supporters such as parents and alumni match were to be ferried to the match in time for its 4pm kick-off. The hired trains travelled from One-North station to Stadium MRT station at seven-minute intervals.

    LTA said SMRT did not seek its approval before agreeing to provide the service to ACS(I). “Under the Circle Line licence, SMRT has to seek LTA’s prior approval for the provision of train services that are not open to the general commuting public,” LTA said in a statement.

    LTA said it has also reminded SMRT that its primary focus must be to ensure good service delivery to the commuting public at large.

    The ACS(I) principal had explained that chartering trains was more convenient than hiring 80 buses for the same price. Still, the resulting photos of trains flooded with a sea of yellow shirts and the sight of the school motto “The best is yet to be” flashing on LED signs on board set tongues wagging on social media.

    The ACS boys beat St Andrew’s Secondary School 28-8 in the National C Division Rugby final.

    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/acs-i-rugby-train-ing-lta/1331292.html

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  • 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