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Jailed for molesting his two teenage sisters
An unemployed man was sentenced to 11 months in jail yesterday for molesting his two teenage sisters and insulting the modesty of the younger one.The 22-year-old pleaded guilty last month to touching...
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Jailed for slashing brother in the face
A man who slashed his elder brother's face with a knife, causing a 10cm-long wound, was jailed for 12 months yesterday.Jasman Sertrosentorno, 44, a warehouse assistant, pleaded guilty to causing his...
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Airport manager jailed 42 months for siphoning nearly $500,000
SINGAPORE - An airport manager who misappropriated almost $500,000 was jailed for 42 months on Monday (Oct 24).Lim Guan Tee, 61, was employed by Asia-Pacific Star (APS), a subsidiary of SATS, when he...
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Man guilty of slashing estranged wife's throat
The father of a one-year-old infant, desperate to stay in Singapore and to see his daughter, slashed the throat of his estranged Singaporean wife who had rebuffed his demands, the High Court heard...
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Woman used cut-&-paste trick to steal $1.5m
A cut-and-paste job was all it took for Kuah Bee Eng to siphon $1.5 million from her employer's bank accounts.The former accounts assistant, who forged 25 funds transfer forms and transferred the sum...
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Choa Chu Kang murder trial: Businessman denies killing wife's ex-lover
A 56-year-old businessman on trial for murdering his wife's former lover in the back of a borrowed van took the stand yesterday and denied killing the much younger man.Chia Kee Chen, who faces the...
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Jail and ban for bus driver in accident that killed cyclist, 87
After stopping at the non-signalled junction, Pow Teck Keng kept a lookout for oncoming traffic before moving off again.But the 59-year-old bus driver looked only to his right side and did not see Mr...
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Choa Chu Kang murder trial: Accused says he had not thought of revenge
On the last day of the trial of a 56-year-old businessman accused of murdering his wife's former lover, prosecutors asserted that a mystery man he had sought to pin the crime on did not exist.Chia Kee...
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Businessman gets 5 months' jail for passport offence
Once ranked by Forbes as the 70th richest man in China, Mick Davies, better known as Lan Shili, dabbled in everything from real estate, tourism and telecoms, to even starting an airline. But the fall...
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Jailed: Loan-shark debtor who stole $4.4m in goods from firm
After his company refused to help him with a loan, Rajagopal Tashnamurthi decided to steal from it.What he took, however, was worth far more than the $30,000 he needed to pay back loan sharks.He came...
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2 jailed for using cloned ATM cards to withdraw cash
A pair of Romanian men were yesterday sentenced to up to three years in jail for stealing $75,000 from ATMs by using cloned cards, with the judge stressing the need for a deterrent sentence."The ease...
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Fined for trying to influence witness' testimony in court
An operations manager of a bus chartering firm who sent SMS messages to a prosecution witness, in a bid to influence her testimony in court, was fined $6,000 yesterday.Ng Ang Heng, 59, who works for...
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ICA officer jailed for molesting colleague
On the pretext of discussing breast cancer, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer molested his female colleague while she was manning a counter at Woodlands Checkpoint during heavy...
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Pimp jailed 4 years for array of crimes
A 24-year-old man who pimped six women to provide perverted sexual services went on a crime spree that included breaking the law in eight ways.Wong Jun Siang even sold soiled bras, panties and socks...
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Ex-ST Marine CEO in graft scandal jailed 10 months, fined
SINGAPORE - A former ST Marine chief executive officer and president implicated in one of the largest graft scandals in corporate Singapore was on Friday (Dec 2) sentenced to 10 months' jail and a...
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Stockbroker fined $2,000 for kicking football against boy's legs 3 times
SINGAPORE - A man was fined $2,000 after kicking a football against a nine-year-old boy's legs three times to teach him a lesson.Keith Tan Chee Siang, 36, was upset because the boy had earlier kicked...
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Temple volunteer jailed over $210k theft
He was a volunteer and committee member of the Jin Ying Tang Temple, giving his time to help out at events. But behind the veneer of doing good, 45-year-old Lim Kok Tiong proved to be nothing more than...
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He used money for poor to buy luxury goods
While needy families were deprived of money meant for them, Chia Kwang Hwee, 33, splurged on luxuries, including spending more than $5,000 on goods from Louis Vuitton boutiques.For nearly three years,...
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Man slashed in face over rivalry for woman's love
A man who accepted cash to slash the face of a married man's love rival was part of a well-planned mafia-like attack that also involved five others.Nur Muhammad Irwan Mohd Ngat, 29, was indirectly...
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Man in mob face-off with police officers gets 10 weeks' jail
An aggressive crowd of up to 100 people in a Geylang back lane prompted a plainclothes policeman on an anti-vice raid to draw his revolver for his safety, a court heard.The sergeant pointed the...
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