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A cabby , who received $2,000 to allow his taxi to be used in a staged accident, was jailed for six months on Thursday. Loh Siaw Kum, 55, pleaded guilty to conspiring to cheat Prime Car Rental and Taxi Services by lodging a false accident report and deceiving the taxi company into pay $7,100 to H.C. Auto for the repairs to his taxi. A district court heard that an acquaintance, known only as Ah Lam, had recruited Low for the scam. The cabby was present when an accomplice deliberately drove the taxi into the rear of a car which then collided into another vehicle ahead of it along Lorong Lada Hitam off Mandai Road on Sept 27, 2009 . Ah Lam then passed the particulars of the "drivers" and the registration numbers of the two cars to Loh and told him to report that the accident happened at 8am on Sept 28 along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5. The cabby was also to say that he had three passengers aboard. He filed the accident report at the offices of Prime the next day and was directed to send his vehicle for repairs to the H.C. Auto workshop in Sin Ming Industrial Estate. These came to $7,100.

Dalvey stabbing case: Poly student gets 16 years, 16 strokes By Khushwant Singh, Court Reporter Choking back tears, Navin Jatin Batla told the High Court on Wednesday that he was not going to deny or justify the offences. He said: 'Doing so will be a bigger crime.' Instead, the 23-year-old Indian national asked for a lenient sentence. 'If not for myself, then for my mother as she has sacrificed everything including selling her house to pay my legal costs,' he added. As the anxious mother watched from the public gallery, Justice Kan Ting Chiu sentenced her only son to a total of 16 years and 16 strokes of the cane for stabbing his ex-girlfriend's father and two maids in June 2006. The judge told Batla: 'You came here to do a course in marine engineering sponsored by a major shipping company in India. By committing the offences... you have brought tragedy onto yourself and your widowed mother and destroyed everything.' Batla, with his hands clasped in front of him, sobbed quietly. Things were looking bright when he arrived here in October 2005 to study at the Singapore Polytechnic. A month later, he met Ms Mumta Manik Shahani, 38, a Web designer, at the One Night Stand pub in Clarke Quay. Two weeks later, they were intimate and he would often sneak into her house to spend the night with her. Her father found out and told her to stop seeing the much younger Batla. She broke up with him on June 29 and an upset Batla bought two knives, four cans of lighter fuel, and cable ties that could be used as restraints. Using a key given to him by Ms Shahani, he stole into the bungalow in the exclusive Dalvey estate off Stevens Road soon after midnight on June 30. He then went on his stabbing spree. Asking for leniency, Batla's lawyer, Mr BJ Lean said that his client loved Ms Shahani and her 10-year-old son and wanted to marry her. 'The break-up sent him deep into depression and made him commit these crimes,' Mr Lean said. The lawyer also produced a report from a psychologist in Mumbai, who had treated Batla since 1997. Batla's mother, Madam Pooja Batla, 51, who has flown down regularly from Mumbai since Batla was arrested in June 2006, told reporters that she accepted the sentence as her son had done wrong. 'It's been a long wait and now this part is over and I can only look forward to his release,' she said. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...53.html?vgnmr=1 Luckily put away from society, else he may hv turned up and made local poly look like Coumbine High School.

June 30, 2008 Delusions drove hawker to rape stepdaughter By Khushwant Singh SUSPECTING that his wife and stepdaughter had installed spy cameras in the flat, hawker Tam Yong Onn decided to give them something to film by raping his 20-year-old stepdaughter. The 43-year-old hawker was jailed for 21 years with 21 strokes of the cane on Monday after he pleaded guilty to molesting and raping the young woman, and taking amphetamine. The High Court on Monday was told that the man was suffering from paranoid delusions caused by smoking Ice. Tam had met his wife in 2002. She and her daughter from her first marriage then moved into his flat and he married her in July 2006. She later gave birth to another daughter. On June 27 last year, he was at home with his stepdaughter while his wife was manning their food stall. The stepdaughter told police that at about 3pm, she saw Tam examining the television and air conditioning unit in the master bedroom. He then went out with something in a red plastic bag. When he returned, he started cutting another plastic bag into ribbons. Tam then confronted her and showed her the back of a wall-mounted clock. He insisted that a round object - the size of 10 cent coin - was a spy camera. He insisted on checking her cellphone as he claimed that she was recording him. When he returned the phone, she called her mother to say that her stepfather was acting strangely again. Moments later, Tam dragged her into the master bedroom, and tied her hands and ankles with plastic strips. He ignored her assertions that there were no cameras or bugs and taped her mouth with masking tape. He told the victim: 'Since all of you want to film me, I will make love to you and let all of you see.' He then molested and raped her. When his wife got home, Tam insisted that his stepdaughter was a member of an organisation out to harm him and he wanted her to feel remorse for the rest of her life for being unfaithful to him. He then called the police. http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/...ory_253142.html

June 12, 2008 Serial molester gets 14 years detention and 18 stroke By Elena Chong A MOLESTER who preyed on more than 20 young girls and women in the Marsiling and Woodlands areas was packed off to jail for 14 years and ordered to be given 18 strokes of the cane on Thursday. Mohammed Ismail Ariffin, 36, unemployed, pleaded guilty last month to 10 charges of outrage of modesty, aggravated molestation and insulting modesty between September 2006 and February this year. His victims were between nine and 53. A Community Court heard that Ismail, who suffered from mild mental retardation, would either touch the victim's buttocks or smell their armpits to release himself. The offences were committed at HDB lifts, staircase landings and even in the victims' homes. He was arrested on Feb 12. Fourteen other charges were taken into consideration. His lawyer, Mr Noor Mohamed Marican, assigned by the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore, said his behaviour was not normal. Ismail, he said, was suffering from the adverse influence of taking Romilar pills - used mostly to suppress coughs. Pleading for leniency, he urged Community Court judge James Leong not to impose a long sentence on Ismail but to send him for medical treatment and rehabilitative programme. Ismail has previous convictions since 1991 for drug- and sexual-related offences. In 1996, he was givne six years and six strokes for aggravated molestation. Judge Leong sentenced him to 14 years' preventive detention and caning. --------------- Not even have penetration.. lidat also kena 18 stroke.. sounds a bit harsh.

Man sues govt for RM6.9m over excess caning A Singaporean is suing the government for around S$3mil (RM6.98mil) in damages for mistakenly caning him three more strokes than he was sentenced to, court documents showed yesterday. Dickson Tan, 21, who was jailed for nine months and sentenced to five strokes of the cane last year for helping an illegal moneylender, was beaten eight times instead as a result of an administrative error. According to court documents filed by the plaintiff on Wednesday, Tan attempted to point out the error before his caning on March 29 last year, but was told that the

Quoted from ST Forum http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Sto...ory_208772.html <Feb 21, 2008 Seven measures to stop drink driving I APPLAUD last Sunday's police action in curbing drink driving. It is one of the worst crimes on our roads. Here is how I suggest we rid our roads and highways of drink driving: # Caning: Minimum 12 strokes for first-time male offenders; # Fine: $50,000 for first-time offenders; # Confiscate vehicles on the spot and permanently; # Driving ban: Minimum 10-year bar for first-time offenders; # Shame them: Posters of offenders in public places; # Campaigns: Advertise the new penalties in the media; # Community work: Offenders to give talks in schools about the dangers of drink driving. A fund should be set up from the fines collected and sale of confiscated vehicles to help seriously injured victims or the families of victims of fatal accidents. Ace Kindred Cheong Shiang Hoow> What do you guys think ?? Too much ?