A Facebook user shared how she had booked 9-seater Grab Coach for herself and her companions for $60, before asking the driver if she could ass two more pick up points to pick up the other passengers.

The driver told her that each pickup point would be $10, and the netizen agreed, before asking the driver if the final price is $60 (the original booking fare) + $20 (the price of the 2 additional pick-up points).

However, the driver didn’t reply her.

On the day of the pickup, she was surprised that the driver brought an additional “assistant” along with him and as a result, one of the woman’s friends had to take a separate grab to the airport by himself.

At the end of the journey, the driver charged them an additional $10 instead of the $20 for the 2 additional pick-up points, saying that it was because their luggage was “overweight”.

Here is what she said (SIC)

I wish to make a complain of this uncle who drives a nine-seater van.

I originally booked this vehicle on grab from the hotel to the airport for a total of $60 (as you can see from the transaction records).

I asked him if he could add two more points to pick up people, and he also said that one point was $10, which I also accepted,

so I asked him if it was 60+20=$80. He didn’t reply my messages, and I suspect it was on purpose (please refer to the conversation screenshot attached).

When came to that day, to my surprise, there were actually two “drivers”, one driver’s assistant took up a seat, which made us not enough seats,

and I have to get one passenger to travel to the airport via another vehicle himself.

This is not the end! At the destination, the driver charged us $30. Why was there an extra ten dollars?

He said it was because our luggage was overweight. The uncle should have asked for the total number of passengers, pieces of luggage, and explain all the hidden charges in advance, but he instead charge more money to his liking, which is deceitful.

I obviously booked a nine-seater, and without the driver there should be eight seats. This is a horrific experience and is indeed a malicious intent by the driver to earn extra cash. This is an extremely unsatisfactory ride and I call upon Grab to look into this matter.

A 14-year-old girl in Singapore, identified as “Ella” in court documents, pleaded guilty to 4 charges that included cheating and theft, as well as participating in risky behaviour such as drinking, vaping and engaging in obscene behaviour.

Her parents were found by the judge to be inconsistent in their parenting methods and deemed them not fit to supervise the girl’s rehabilitation, and she was sentenced on 6 April by a youth court to 21 months in the Singapore Girls’ Home – 5 other charges were considered during her sentencing.

According to a report by Channel NewsAsia, Ella had pleaded guilty to 4 charges including stealing cosmetic products from Watsons, and scamming other people on Carousell by posting listings but not delivering the goods.

She was also part of a group that attacked someone with a knuckle duster.

Her parents had contacted the Singapore Children’s Society back on 24 February last year, applying for the pre-Family Guidance Order (FGO) regime after she had broken a number of laws.

The organisation screened the 14-year-old girl and found that she had engaged in a few risky behaviours that included:

1. Underaged smoking and vaping
2. Consuming alcohol
3. Obscene behaviour
4. Associating with negative influences
5. Staying away from home
6. Going home late

The organisation found that Ella’s parents were inconsistent in their parenting, with the mother being open to professional advice and making an effort to impose discipline and routine on the girl, while the father was often switching between being strict and permissive.

The family was subsequently referred to another social service agency for therapy sessions but the girl failed to show up thrice without valid reasons.

She was also not interested in working on her studies and associated with the negative influences in her life because she placed more emphasis on having fun instead, straying away from her home for up to a week.

At the time, her parents were also going through a divorce, resulting in increased difficulties in managing their out-of-hand daughter.

The father also suddenly decided against applying for the FGO because Ella promised to go to school and abide by the curfew, but failed to keep her promises, with her behaviour getting worse instead – she allegedly posted photos of herself with love bites and tried to find a sugar daddy online.

Ella was charged in August 2022 and her mother posted bail for her before withdrawing herself as the bailor less than a month later, decided instead to send her to the Girls’ Home after she found 50 canisters of butane gas in her room.

Her father then posted bail for her instead and enabled Ella to go back to her old ways, with the mother later finding even more butane gas in her room.

She was then remanded at the Girls’ Home after having her bail nullified by the court in October 2022 but gave her another chance to be bailed out with a higher bail amount, provided she followed the stricter curfew hours.

However, she breached the bail conditions once again and ran away from home.

The judge noted that Ella had been referred to CPS 6 times last year and was a victim of dating violence while dating her ex-boyfriend, and she was also physically punished at home, where her father was seen on CCTV pulling her hair, kicking her stomach, slapping and cursing at her.

The mother then applied for a personal protection order and domestic exclusion, with proceedings for those applications still ongoing.

The father appealed against his daughter’s sentence to the Girls’ Home and asked for probation instead, saying that he will supervise her and chaperone her personally to and from school; however, it was rejected by the court, with the judge noting that Ella was non-receptive to community-based programmes.

22-year-old Delwin Neo Kah Keng, who was 19 at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty to a charge of rape after raping a drunk 18-year-old girl at a birthday party and even bragging to his friend about what he had done, sharing a photo of the victim.

He also pleaded guilty to 2 other charges under the Children and Young Person Act for getting a 12-year-old girl to engage in obscene acts with him in a separate case, with 9 other charges being considered during his sentencing.

He was sentenced on 6 April to 9 years and 11 months imprisonment, as well as 6 strokes of the cane.

Recap

22-year-old Delwin Neo Kah Keng had previously pleaded guilty on 31 January at the High Court to one count of rape, and two other unrelated charges for offences made against another victim.

Neo, who was 19 at the time of the offence, had insisted on sending a drunk 18-year-old girl home, and sent his friends a series of messages, including “am I too innocent to not even touch her?”

His friends warned him not to touch her but he still forced himself on the victim and raped her.

What happened?

Neo was a full-time NSF at the time, and on 20 November 2019, he met the victim at a birthday party in Clarke Quay that he had organised for a friend at a club.

The victim got drunk at the party at about 2am, and was lying down drunk on a sofa; Neo then took a video of her and sent it to a WhatsApp group chat for the party attendees.

He told the group at 2.20am that he was going to send the girl home and one of is friends told him not to do so, but Neo insisted.

A promoter at the club offered to send the girl home but Neo insisted of sending her home himself, booking a taxi along the way.

The two then arrived at about 3.30am at the girl’s flat where she lived alone, and after entering her home, the girl told him to lock the gate and throw the keys through the gate after he left.

The girl was inside her bedroom, thinking that Neo had left, and took off almost all of her clothes before falling asleep on the bed.

Neo asked her to perform several explicit acts on him at some point but was rejected by the girl who went back to sleep.

He then texted a friend at about 3.45am, saying that the girl was not wearing anything on the bed, before texting another friend at about 4am, saying “I might be a devil soon.”

He then proceeded to rape the victim, who woke up during the assault – he then asked her if it was “nice” for her and continued raping her despite her pleas for him to stop.

He eventually stopped and was chased out of the flat by the victim, and he then kept asking her if she was okay and told her not to tell anyone about what he did.

Later that evening, Neo texted the victim and apologised, and she replied that he had raped her, which Neo didn’t deny and asked her how the matter could be settled.

The victim then called the police the next morning to lodge a report against Neo, who was then arrested on the same day at about 11.40am.