A maid who stole more than $60,000 worth of property from her employer's household was jailed for 14 months on Monday.

Indonesian Mellysa, 30, who goes by one name, admitted to five charges of theft from her employer and members of the family at a condominium at Draycott Drive between March and May this year.

Five other charges were considered during her sentencing, reports The Straits Times.

A district court heard that she started stealing shortly after she began working for Madam Karen Yip Ka Ling, 47, early this year.

A woman, who gained notoriety after she was filmed hammering an elderly man's vehicle with a steering lock, was fined RM5,000 or in default three months' jail.

The Sessions Court also ordered Siti Fairrah Ashykin Kamaruddin (pic), 30, better known as Kiki, to do 240 hours of community work.

In delivering sentencing, Session judge Zainal Abidin Kamarudin reminded the accused to uphold her good name as she was a lady and well-educated. 

Zainal Abidin said the accused was very lucky that the victim Sim Siak Hong was a good man and did not wish to pursue the matter.

The accused, who broke down during mitigation, had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 427 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to two years or a fine or both.

She was said to have committed the offence at the parking lot of UTC, Jalan Sekilau in Kuantan on July 14 at about 1.10pm. 

Siti Fairrah was recorded spewing verbal abuses and hammering the vehicle belonging to Sim, 68, with his steering lock.

The incident was triggered after Sim accidentally hit her brand new Peugeot.

A video of the incident, which was uploaded onto Youtube, instantly went viral, resulting in the public condemning her aggressive acts.

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Rebecca Loh, who made news last year for pushing her special needs son out a 5th floor window, killing him, has been diagnosed as "fit to plead" by the IMH and she intends to plead guilty.

Loh, 32, had a 9 year old son, Gabriel Loh, who suffered from multiple medical conditions including liver impairments, which left him in need of 24 hour care.

He was malnourished, jaundiced and had osteoporosis and the medical fees were just too much for Ms Loh who survived off her elderly mother's low income as she could not work because she needed to tend to her son every day.

After she pushed her son out the window, Loh was remanded at IMH for psychiatric assessment and was found to be suffering from post-schizophrenic depression at the time of the incident but they also found that she was "not of unsound mind" so she could plead.

She will plead guilty to the offence of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder, meaning that she will not be facing the death penalty.

Local inventor Mr Yiap Hang Boon, is suing the Housing Development Board (HDB) for infringing a patent that he holds for an external clothes drying rack that he designed back in 2003.

However, the HDB rejects the claim and wants to get the court to revoke the patent which was granted to Mr Yiap.

Mr Yiap claims that the external clothes drying racks used in some of HDB's newer developments in Sengkang, Toa Payoh Central and Queenstown have infringed his patent.

The HDB is claiming that they came up with the clothes drying racks themselves and did not copy Mr Yiap's design.

In fact, the HDB says that they had already been implementing the clothes drying racks consisting of a stainless steel frame with four poles fixed at an incline up to 1 and a half years before Mr Yiap filed for a patent on his design.

HDB explained that they came up with the new design following safety concerns being raised over the use of bamboo poles.  

Another possible defence for HDB is the fact that Mr Yiap did not bring the case to court within the 6 year limit.

A court case was first filed in 2006 about the possible patent infringement but he had previously been advised that he had no legal case.

A secondary 4 student has been sentenced to probation today for punching a Sec 2 student in the face and fracturing his nose.

Jason Lim Jia Sheng, 17, was ordered to do 120 hours of community service and also had to pay $1,364 for the medical expenses of the 14 year old victim.

On top of this, Jason must abide by a curfew and stay indoors between 10pm and 6am.

His parents had to sign a $5000 bond to ensure his good behaviour.

The incident happened in January this year when the students were queuing up at the school canteen.

The secondary 2 student had been lining up for about 15 minutes when one of Jason's friends came and cut in the queue in front of him.

When the victim protested, the older boy asked "You not happy ar?" then punched the younger boy in the face.

The younger boy also retaliated by punching the older boy but the fight was broken up by the other students.

Later, when the older boy told Jason about the incident, Jason went to find the younger boy and assaulted him, fracturing his nose.

Twenty-seven subjects were arrested following a 17-hour joint enforcement operation that commenced on Monday (July 21) at 9am.

Details of the raid were posted on the Singapore Police Force'sfacebook page, along with a photo of an arrest that was made.

In the post, SPF said that the operation was jointly led by Ang Mo Kio Police Division and Central Narcotics Bureau,.

And it was supported by officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the Secret Societies Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.

The officers conducted checks at public entertainment outlets and public housing estates in Sembawang, Yishun, Ang Mo Kio, Upper Serangoon Road, Punggol and Sengkang.

Of the 27 people arrested, 17 were arrested for drug-related offences, six were arrested for offences under the Common Gaming Houses Act, three were arrested for offences under the Societies Act and 1 was detected as a wanted person.

In addition, one public entertainment outlet was found to have breached the Licensing Conditions. SCDF also detected one fire safety violation in another entertainment outlet and will be following up on the necessary action.

From religious artwork to baby strollers, laptops and even the lease for an apartment in Tanjong Katong, a serial cheat paid his victims for a wide variety of items using cheques his bank accounts did not have the funds to honour.

Jobless Mohamed Amir Mohamed Tafel, 31, is believed to have sold off some of the goods, worth thousands, and pocketed the proceeds, reports The Straits Times.

On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to 14 charges against him. Besides cheating with the dud cheques and unrelated drug and criminal breach of trust offences, these also included that for unlawful possession of a knuckle duster, which resulted in six strokes of the cane.

Some 28 other assorted charges, also arising from crimes he committed between Feb 2012 and March this year, were taken into consideration.

A district court heard that the total value of losses involved in Mohamed Amir's crimes amounted to $12,417.20, most of which has not been recovered.

A former engineer who took upskirt videos of unsuspecting women on escalators at shopping malls and MRT stations was jailed for three weeks on Friday.

Teh Thian Seng, 51, now unemployed, is believed to be the first such offender with a psychiatric problem to be sentenced to jail, reports The Straits Times Online.

The father of two was also fined $8,500 after admitting to having 17 obscene video films at his Hougang flat in 2012.

He had also pleaded guilty to insulting the modesty of women at the underground passageway between Ngee Ann City and Wisma Atria shopping centres and the escalator of City Hall MRT station on Aug 25 that year.

Claiming a needy student needed to borrow money, a secondary school teacher convinced one of his students to hand over $4,000.
 
But the needy student did not exist, and the person facing financial difficulty was Low Yiming himself, reports The Straits Times.
 
On Tuesday, Low, 31, was jailed four months for cheating his former student on three occasions in 2011.
 
He pleaded guilty to one count, with another two taken into consideration.
 
Low was also fined $1,500 for an unrelated theft in dwelling charge, over $124.30 in products taken from Mustafa Centre last August.
 
The court heard that Low, then employed by the Education Ministry, had been deployed to the school in Bedok.
 
On a few occasions in 2011, Low had taught then-Secondary 4 student Lai Jinhua when Low stood in as a relief teacher in Mr Lai's class.

An odd-job labourer who slashed his elderly neighbour in the face with a screwdriver in a row over litter was jailed for four months on Thursday.

Oh It Meng, 49, originally accused of causing hurt with a dangerous weapon, pleaded guilty to an amended charge of hurting Mr Goh Tee Tee, 67, outside the victim's unit at Block 432 Bukit Panjang Ring Road on Feb 18 this year.

A district court heard that Mr Goh had returned home to find the corridor outside his unit had been cleaned and washed by the estate's cleaner, reports The Straits Times.

At about 6.15pm, he was watering his potted plants outside the flat when he saw some litter.

A maid who hit a retiree with a bamboo pole and stamped on her foot, causing her to fracture a bone, was sentenced to three months' jail on Tuesday.

Myanmar national Cing Sian Huai, 24, had pleaded guilty to inflicting the fracture on Madam Grace Toh Ah Bay, 66, on April 27 in the Bedok flat where she worked as a maid for Madam Toh and her mother, Madam Seah Cheng Poh, 93, reports The Straits Times.

The court heard that the incident happened before 9pm that day when Cing refused to continue cleaning after Madam Toh scolded her for not cleaning the dishes properly.

Cing said she did not want to continue working and insisted on returning to the employment agency but Madam Toh refused to unlock the gate.

Cing tried to force open the lock using a window wiper. When this failed, she started hitting the gate with a bamboo pole, breaking the wiper and pole in the process.

Madam Toh tried to calm Cing down but the maid hit her hand three times with the pole instead, stamping on her foot after the attack caused her to fall.

The attack left Madam Toh with bruises on her arms and a fractured metatarsal bone in the foot.

She was given two weeks' hospitalisation leave.

Walking past a Geylang coffee shop, a former inmate saw someone he recognised - an ex-prisoner he had a grudge against for squealing on him while they were in jail.

Jamsari Yusof, 51, confronted the alleged snitch, 43-year-old Gunasekaran Rengasamy, accusing him of being a "hantu" - prison parlance for an informer, reports The Straits Times.

Things got ugly when the three men who had been drinking with Mr Gunasekaran decided to turn against him.

In the ensuing fight, Jamsari fatally stabbed Mr Gunasekaran with a knife handed to him by one of the drinking buddies.

Yesterday, Jamsari found himself back in jail for 12 years, after he pleaded guilty in the High Court to culpable homicide, for kicking, punching and stabbing Mr Gunasekaran in the early hours of Feb 13, 2012.

Jamsari escaped caning because of his age.

After commiserating with one another about their lack of money following a clubbing session, three friends decided to steal some gold.

They hammered out a plan and executed it the next afternoon at a goldsmith shop in Yishun, making off with four gold bars worth $14,775.

The loot was sold off and the proceeds either spent on mobile phones or kept, reports The Straits Times.

Yesterday, Sivasakthi Kumaran Nagarajan, 22, who had picked the shop along Yishun Central 1, was sentenced to four months in prison after pleading guilty to theft in dwelling on July 4 at around 2.15pm.

I submitted my affidavit to the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today. In the affidavit, I countered that, “There is no transparency in the manner in which CPF monies were invested by the Government, MAS, Temasek Holdings and / or GIC.”

I also stated that, “The current situation where Singaporeans have been placed at a disservice, due to the lack of information from the Government, MAS, GIC and Temasek Holdings, is due to a lack of checks and balances within the Government and among the estates of governance. Such disservice is dishonourable and requires a thorough examination of the issues at hand. Only when these issues are dealt with rigourously and held accountable to Singaporeans where where the lives of Singaporeans will be truly safeguarded. This is where I have written in good faith from, and which I maintain, towards a just and equal Singaporean society.”

You can read the affidavit below.

Roy Ngerng Affidavit to Lee Hsien Loong 4 August 2014

A maid from Indonesia, Ariani, was jailed 12 months yesterday for stealing over $24,000 in cash from a drawer at her employer's house.

Her employer, Ms Tan Ee Mui, 53, had employed Ariani, 29, since 2011.

Ms Tan kept large amounts of cash in a locked drawer in her home but her maid found out where she kept the key to the drawer.

Periodically, Ariani had been taking medium amounts of cash from the drawer over the course of a year.

It was not until July this year that Ms Tan had noticed something was amiss.

Ms Tan had discovered that she was about $5000 short in the drawer and so she had confronted Ariani about the discrepancy.

Ariani broke down and admitted to stealing from the drawer.

The court heard that Ariani had accessed the drawer multiple times when Ms Tan was not home and each time she had taken about $1000 and remitted it back to Indonesia.

 She had taken from the drawer between April 2013 and May 2014. Once, she took over $3,200 from the drawer and remitted it to Indonesia.

The full amount of her theft had been discovered as she had an account with remittance agency Pay2Home, which kept records of all her remittances.

A total of $24,109.68 was stolen from Ms Tan and the money was no able to be recovered as it was already sent to Indonesia. Ariani made no restitution to Ms Tan so she was unable to get her money back.

The prosecutor had pushed for a 12 month sentence as Ariani had repeatedly stolen from her employer.

Ariani had apologised in court for her offences.

She could have faced a maximum sentence of 7 years in jail and a fine.

A primary school teacher from a primary school in Jurong West was sentenced to 1 year in jail and three strokes of the cane for molesting an eight year old student of his.

The eight year old girl was in his weekend tuition class when he told her to go to the back of the room to do some reading.

He followed the young girl to the back of the classroom and instructed the rest of the students to continue with their work.

At the back of the room, he proceeded to touch the girl's private parts through her clothes, while the rest of the class was unaware.

The incident occurred on October 19 last year.

The teacher pleaded guilty to the charge of molesting the child.

As the trial into the City Harvest Church leaders continued yesterday, it came to light that almost $5 million of Church building funds were used to fund Sun Ho's album related costs.

The prosecution showed that this money was used before any bond investments were made to Xtron.

It was also pointed out that the Xtron bonds were used to make it look like money was being transferred to Xtron as investments when in fact, there is no evidence to show that it was a serious investment.

The sham bonds were used to cover up the money which was already transferred in to Sun Ho's music career.

Sun Ho is the wife of Khong Hee, senior pastor and one of the six accused church leaders. She was the centrepiece of the crossover project, which was supposed to evangelise through pop music.

The prosecution also pointed to an email which showed that the Church's former finance manager, Serina Wee, had suggested hiding the costs of paying back the advanced rentals as travel and salary expenses.

"The idea of using Xtron bonds was so it could be presented as an investment, and hide the fact that you were using building fund monies to fund Sun's career," said Lead Prosecutor Mavis Chionh.

At the time, it was also clear that Xtron was a failing business and that Sun Ho's albums were losing money.

Based on this, the prosecution said that there was no basis for the church leaders to believe Xtron's huge sales predictions on Sun Ho's albums.

Xtron had earlier projected that Sun Ho's album sales would make S$16 million in 2011, and S$23 million in 2012.

A former cashier with pawnbroker Maxi-Cash who robbed his then-employer of $570,000 in jewellery and cash was on Monday sentenced to reformative training.

This is a strict regime in which offenders under 21 are kept behind bars for between 1½ and three years as they undergo structured rehabilitation programmes.

Jonathan Tan Jia Huang, 20, had asked the court to sentence him to jail, saying that he turns 21 in three weeks, and that a previous stint of reformative training had failed.

When District Judge Ng Peng Hong rejected the request, Tan said: "In that case, I will not change."

The judge replied: "The decision to change is yours."

Besides the robbery charge, Tan also pleaded guilty to stealing a wallet and using two other persons' NRICs to check into a hotel and sign up for a mobile phone plan.

Around 12.50pm on Jan 12 this year, Ng, who held keys to the cash drawer and the display shelves and cabinets storing gold and jewellery, grabbed the items when his colleague went to the toilet.

She tried to stop him when he tried to exit the shop on Tampines Central 1, but he pushed her aside, causing bruising on her arm, and headed on bicycle to a multi-storey carpark nearby.

A former business director of an ST Electronics subsidiary was sentenced to eight weeks' jail for corruption on Tuesday, reported The Straits Times.
 
Mark Edward Tjong was convicted of corruptly getting $57,387 from Mr Mujibur Rahman as a reward to appoint the 65-year-old Bangladesh national as an agent of ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) (STE) to help the latter with a project with the Bangladesh Police Department in August 2006.
 
Tjong, 48, was then employed by STE, an arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering, which is listed on the Singapore Exchange.
 
The American citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident was also ordered to pay a penalty of $57,387.
 
But his lawyers Shashi Nathan and Tania Chin successfully asked that the sum be stayed pending Tjong's appeal against conviction and sentence. 

A senior sales and marketing executive who recorded upskirt videos of two women in a supermarket was jailed for four weeks on Wednesday.

Leon Liang Yiwei, 25, who pleaded guilty to one of two charges, had placed his mobile phone in a shopping basket to record an unknown Caucasian woman followed by a 26-year-old woman at The Market Place in Paragon shopping centre on April 12 this year.

The court heard that he was shopping for groceries at the supermarket that evening when he saw a Caucasian woman in a green skirt and found her attractive.

He activated the video recording mode on his phone and placed it inside the shopping basket with the in-built camera lens facing upwards.

He walked close to the woman from behind and held his shopping basket underneath her skirt for about two seconds before walking away.