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Worker doing flat upgrading ended up molesting student
A construction worker who was carrying out upgrading work at an HDB flat, but ended up molesting a 20-year-old student who lived there, was yesterday jailed for seven months after losing his...
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Rapist witnessed past assault on same girl
He was 15 when he raped a 13-year- old girl after having seen an alleged gang leader sexually assault her.Alson Tan Yu Seng assaulted the victim with the help of two others who held her down.The...
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Man who lifted girl's dress jailed 4 months
He acted like a friendly neighbour, offering to buy ice cream for the young girl.But driver Rosli Hassan, 55, lifted the eight-year-old girl's dress and then gave her money for ice cream to buy her...
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Ex-Certis Cisco man admits squeezing trigger in gun play
He did not think his revolver would fire when he toyed with the weapon while on duty as an auxiliary police officer at the Tuas Checkpoint.On the second day of his trial for committing a rash act to...
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Rape lie: Woman gets detention order
A woman's rape claim last year sparked a police probe which lasted about seven hours before she admitted she had lied to cover up the fact that she had casual sex.Esther Chua, 30, was sentenced to a...
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5 years' jail, 10 strokes for molesting two girls
He molested a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a lift in 2012 but was never caught.Four years later, Dexter Louis Wong, 35, molested another teenager in a Housing Board lift lobby near where he lived and was...
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Man admits evading NS for a decade
The prosecution is pushing for a five-month jail term for a 28-year-old man who yesterday pleaded guilty to defaulting on his national service (NS) for a decade.Not only did Jonathan Tan Huai En reap...
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Jail for serial cheat who duped 18 people
A woman perpetrated various scams against 18 victims and conned them out of a total of about $551,000 over 31/2 years.Only $9,642 of the losses has been recovered, a district court heard.Anita Siah...
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Security guard jailed for repeatedly punching daughter
A security guard punched his teenage daughter multiple times one evening for missing a night cycling event he had signed her up for.The accused had subjected the 14-year-old student and her stepmother,...
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Jail for serial cheat who conned close friend of over $460k
A serial cheat tricked his victim of about $463,000 over a period of seven months by cooking up stories of his mother being terminally ill, his daughter being kidnapped overseas, his mistress...
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Jailed: Cabby who's provoked into attack
His fellow cabby pushed, punched and even taunted him.Furious, Choo Ng Lye Choon , 65, lashed out at Mr Lim See Ann, 47, with a blade and cut him.Yesterday, Choo was sentenced to one week's jail and a...
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Man used 'secret video' app in upskirt crimes
Taking advantage of an app that allows people to secretly record videos on their phones, a 29-year-old man took 39 upskirt videos of women at various places - from supermarkets to MRT stations.For his...
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$352k extortion bid: Man jailed, caned
A former mobile phone shop worker conspired to extort US$250,000 (S$352,000) from his friend's fiancee after a money exchange deal went sour.Yesterday, Benjamin Ling Jialiang, 26, was jailed for two...
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Plastic surgeon fined $13,000 for computer misuse
A plastic surgeon was fined a total of $13,000 on Monday for installing a spyware program on his laptop to intercept data belonging to his then wife, and unlawfully accessing data in the Singapore...
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Legless body in suitcase: Duo to hang for murder
Two men from Pakistan, who came to Singapore to sell tissue paper, were yesterday sentenced to hang for murdering a compatriot to recover money that they had lost to him in a game of cards.The duo,...
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Man jailed for gruesome killing of fiancee: Mum had never met daughter's killer
For Madam Chen Yoke Mooi, yesterday was the first time she had laid eyes on her daughter's killer Gabriel Lee Haw Ling.The housewife knew that her daughter Elsie Lie Lek Chee was dating him, but...
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Decision on Amos Yee's asylum bid expected in two weeks
A decision on the application for political asylum in the United States by Singaporean teenage blogger Amos Yee is expected in two weeks."After hours of testimony from numerous witnesses, Amos Yee's...
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Police NSF stole three gold bars from retiree
A police full-time national serviceman who lost money in stocks and soccer betting stole three 100g gold bars worth a total of $13,800 from an 84-year-old retiree, a court heard.Tan Bing Ren, 21, was a...
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Cosplay fan fined $1,000 for causing alarm
A cosplay enthusiast who enjoyed dressing up as a law enforcement officer caused such alarm with a replica weapon that 50 real police officers were mobilised to track him down.Timothy Tan Zhiyu, 26,...
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Row over power supply: Three years' jail for slashing landlord
A mentally ill woman, angry with her landlord for switching off the main power supply, slashed him in the forearm with a paper cutter.Mr Wong Keng Woo, 76, died about 11/2 hours later from acute...
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