Selina Lum
Law Corrrespondent at The Straits Times
Articles
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3 days ago |
straitstimes.com | Selina Lum
SINGAPORE - A 49-year-old man, who relentlessly slashed his wife outside a row of restaurants at Beach Road, was sentenced to 19 years’ jail and eight strokes of the cane on June 3. Cheng Guoyuan had pleaded guilty on May 20 to a charge of attempted murder over the vicious attack which took place at about 5.30pm on April 14, 2022.
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1 week ago |
straitstimes.com | Selina Lum
SINGAPORE – The High Court has upheld the acquittal of a Chinese company that was charged with bribery after two of its employees gave loans totalling $220,000 to a Land Transport Authority (LTA) deputy group director. In a written judgment on May 29, the court said there was insufficient evidence to show that the company’s top management was aware of or somehow complicit in the illegal acts.
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1 week ago |
straitstimes.com | Selina Lum
SINGAPORE – A maid abuser who appealed to the High Court to avoid jail time on grounds that she heard voices telling her to hurt the domestic worker, had her prison sentence more than doubled to seven years instead. Anita Damu, 57, was initially sentenced to two years and seven months’ jail in 2018, after a district judge accepted two psychiatric reports that she had abused the victim under the influence of auditory hallucinations. This explanation has since been rejected by the court.
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2 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Selina Lum
SINGAPORE - A Secondary 1 girl who was molested by her stepfather after he crept into her room at night immediately told her mother about the inappropriate touching. The victim’s mother warned her husband not to sleep together with the girl any more. Three years later, the man preyed on the girl again, filming her in the shower and escalating the abuse to a more intrusive act.
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2 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Selina Lum
SINGAPORE – A man who lived in a rented room with his wife molested his landlord’s daughter in her own bedroom when she was 12 to 13 years old. Loh Wai Seng, a 36-year-old permanent resident from Malaysia, was sentenced by the High Court to 3½ years’ jail and seven strokes of the cane on May 20. He pleaded guilty to a charge of committing an indecent act with a child and two charges of aggravated outrage of modesty.
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