Crime

Nearly a month after Nicholas Lim Jun Kai’s voyeuristic offence of filming fellow NUS undergraduate Monica Baey in the bathroom of her student hall of residence came to light in the public eye last month, a 26-year-old male student was arrested by the Police on Sat (11 May) for allegedly committing a similar offence. The Straits Times reported the Police …

Revenge porn, voyeurism and “stealthing” will soon be classified as sexual offences under the Penal Code with the passing of the Criminal Law Reform Bill on Mon (6 May). The introduction of the Bill is in tandem with technological developments and the use of smartphones as a medium through which perpetrators often commit such sexual offences. Senior Parliamentary Secretary for …

A 46-year-old Bangladeshi national and former work permit holder, Younus was sentenced to nine months and two weeks’ imprisonment for harbouring one male Bangladeshi immigration offender on 30 April 2019, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority announced on Friday (3 May). The authority then conducted investigations and revealed that Younus had rented a unit at Serangoon Road by enlisting the assistance …

A seemingly simple case, involving a money mule in love scams, has engendered important questions of law of public interest which reached the highest court of the land on Friday (3 May). 49-year-old divorcee and real estate agent Osborn Yap was back in court on Friday morning, in a bid to reduce his jail term for offences committed under the …

Three men, aged between 26 and 44, have been arrested for their suspected involvement in the importation and possession of counterfeit mobile phones and components for the purpose of trade. Singapore Customs (SC) stated in a press release on Thursday (2 May) that it intercepted a consignment from China consisting of more than 500 pieces of mobile phone components believed to …

A 27-year-old woman was arrested for her suspected involvement in a series of e-commerce scams. The Police said in a press release on Monday (29 April) that it received several reports from victims who were purportedly cheated by an online seller who was selling Universal Studio Singapore tickets on Carousell between 5 and 9 January 2018. However, after payments were …

Following the high-profile sexual harassment case involving voyeur Nicholas Lim Jun Kai, who was merely given a 12-month conditional warning and an instruction to write an apology letter to Monica Baey – a fellow National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate student – for filming her whilst she was showering in her hall’s bathroom last year, a list of sexual misconduct …

9,188 bottles of duty-unpaid liquor were seized in an operation in a unit of an industrial building in Woodlands Close on Thursday (18 April). Singapore Customs stated that four men were also arrested for their involvement in duty-unpaid liquor activities. The officers of Singapore Customs suspected that a consignment of goods in the unit contained duty-unpaid liquor. Therefore, they moved into …

Sixteen men were arrested in the last two weeks for their involvement in duty-unpaid cigarette activities. In a Facebook post on Wednesday (24 April), Singapore Customs stated that the 12 Singaporeans, three Chinese nationals and a Malaysian were arrested in a series of operations conducted island-wide by Singapore Customs officers to clamp down on duty-unpaid cigarette activities. According to the …

Another incident involving voyeurism on university residential hall grounds has arisen as a 19-year-old man is being investigated for allegedly photographing another man in the shower at a residential hall toilet in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) last Sun (21 Apr). Police told The Straits Times that they had received a 999 call for assistance at around 1.11 p.m. on Sun …