A 28-year-old deliveryman fall in love with a 47-year-old married woman and did everything for her but ended up in jail. The duo met when the 28-year-old was working as a deliveryman. When the married woman told the man that she needed funds for her business turnover, the deliveryman did not hesitate to lie to his parents and younger sister to cheat over SGD$150,000.
28-year-old Lai Zi Ying pleaded guilty to four counts of cheating and he was sentenced to 15 months in prison yesterday.
It was said in the court hearing that the defendant is working as a delivery man when he met the married woman Guo Shujun while making his deliveries in July 2016.
Guo Shujun was married at the time with two children. She claims that she was in the business of selling bags and began to hire the defendant to perform deliveries. The two eventually fall in love even though the defendant knew that the other party has a family and still carried on the forbidden relationship.
According to the police investigation, Guo Shujun claimed that her business was in need of money and asked Lai to find a way to “borrow money” from his parents.
In order to deceive his parents to give him the money, the defendant fabricated various lies, saying for a while that he needed money to buy a car, and for a while that he needed money for school fees.
Further investigation revealed that Guo Shujun had instigated the defendant to deceive her sister into “investing”, but in fact all the money went into Guo Shujun’s pocket.
Investigations revealed that the defendant’s parents and sister were defrauded of a total of SGD$150,454 and he has only repaid about SGD$23,000.