52-year-old Woo May Hoe, had allegedly pretended to be an Indian goddess and made her devotees consume faeces, according to TODAY.

Among her victims include a 43-year-old, whom she is being accused of pulling out her teeth and pouring essential oils into her eye.

Woo was served with 40 additional charges on 6 October and is facing 50 charges in total, including cheating, causing hurt by means of a harmful substance, as well as causing grievous hurt.

Woo has been remanded since October 2020, when she faced her first 10 charges, and had another 40 charges brought against her last week.

The number of her alleged victims has also increased from 8 to at least 14.

Woo had allegedly forced 5 people to swallow human faeces as their “punishment” while she was pretending to be an Indian goddess.

She is also being charged with cheating several victims out of millions of dollars, with the money supposedly for her to buy them cows as a form of a donation to cleanse the victims of their “sins”, and improve their health and their parents’ health.

One of the victims had given Woo $500,000 for the above reasons, as well as another $2.5 million between 2013 and 2015, after Woo said she needed money for a “Balaji” temple in Vellore Village, India.

Woo then demanded funds to expand a school at the Vellore Village in India, and the victim gave her another $3.5 million.

Woo then targeted the same victim again, this time cheating her of $12,000 in 2020 by saying she needed to settle her debts with loan sharks in Malaysia after borrowing money from them for a landed property at Bedok Road.

Woo is also being charged with conspiring to cheat banks into disbursing mortgage loans of between $185,000 to $4.6 million for several properties.

She is also being charged with assaulting a 43-year-old woman by making her jump from the 2nd storey of Ubi Techpark, resulting in the victim fracturing both her ankles.

SHe also extracted the victim’s tooth using pliers, stabbed her forearm with scissors, used canes to hit the victim’s vase and injure her eye, used a paint roller brush to hit the victim in the head and head and resulting in her little finger fracturing.

She also used an “Isagenix” bottle and hit the victim on the head as well as twisted her ear, causing bleeding; pouring essential oils into the woman’s eye and resulting in a “corneal abrasion”, telling another woman to yank out her teeth and using a mop to hit her backside.

Woo is scheduled to return to court on 17 November for a pre-trial conference and is currently in remand, with her bail being set at $200,000.

25-year-old China national Xu Zi Zhou, who is on a student pass, was fined $5,000 on 10 October for flying a drone at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to take photos of his girlfriend and her friend.

He had pleaded guilty to one count of operating an unmanned aircraft without a valid activity permit within 5km of Tengah Aerodrome, with 2 other charges relating to the regulations of unmanned aircraft operations being considered during his sentencing.

What happened

Xu had purchased a DJI Mavic Air 2 drone from Shopee on 28 May 2021.

he then took the drone, which weighs 568.5g, and carried out a few test flights around his school at NTU, before meeting his girlfriend at her friend at NTU’s Yunnan Garden on 1 June 2021.

He used the drone to take photos and videos of his girlfriend and her friend at the garden, and the drone was detected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore to be flying at a maximum altitude of 518.37feet above sea level, as well as being within 5km of Tengah Aerodrome.

Officers from CAAS were then dispatched to Yunnan Garden, and they then saw Xu operating the drone, before asking him to land the machine.

According to the drone’s flight logs, Xu flew it 5 times that day, with the total flight time being 18 minutes.

According to CAAS’ regulations on unmanned aircraft activities, a Class 2 permit is required for activities with the drone under various conditions – such as if it is used to recreational purposed and is below 25kg in weight, if it is within 5km of any military airbase or civil aerodrome, and it is being flown at an altitude of higher than 200 feet above sea level.

Xu would have been required to fly the drone in accordance with the regulations, if he had applied for the permit.

The Police have arrested a 37-year-old man for his suspected involvement in a case of loanshark harassment.

On 6 October 2022, the Police were alerted to a case of loanshark harassment along Lorong M Telok Kurau where a car was splashed with red paint and a debtor’s note was placed on the window of the car. Through ground enquiries and with the aid of images from Police cameras, officers from Bedok Police Division established the identity of the man and arrested him on 7 October 2022. One mobile phone was seized as a case exhibit.

The man will be charged in court on 8 October 2022 under the Moneylenders Act 2008. For first-time offenders, the offence of loanshark harassment carries a fine of not less than $5,000, and not more than $50,000, with mandatory imprisonment of up to five years, and mandatory caning of up to six strokes.

The Police have zero tolerance against loanshark harassment activities. Those who deliberately cause annoyance and disrupt public safety, peace and security, will be dealt with severely in accordance with the law.

Members of the public are advised to stay away from loansharks and not to work with or assist them in any way. The public can call the Police at ‘999’ or the X-Ah Long hotline at 1800-924-5664 if they suspect or know of anyone who could be involved in loansharking activities.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
07 October 2022 @ 11:30 PM

The Police will be charging ten errant massage establishment operators for their suspected involvement in operating unlicensed massage establishments. 

During enforcement operations conducted by Clementi Police Division, the Police found 10 exempted massage establishments to have breached the exemptions conditions under the Massage Establishments (Exemption) Order 2018. The exempted massage establishments purportedly installed curtains, partitions, or rooms inside the premises, which allowed for massages to be administered in private, which were not in adherence to the Massage Establishments (Exemption) Order 2018.

Operators of exempted massage establishments are required to comply with all the exemption conditions under the Massage Establishments (Exemption) Order 2018. Failing to comply with any of the exemption conditions will result in the operators being deemed as operating an unlicensed massage establishment.

Ten operators of the exempted massage establishments found in breach of the exemption conditions will be charged in court on 10 October 2022 for the offence of carrying on a business of providing massage services in an establishment for massage without a valid licence, under Section 5(1) of the Massage Establishments Act 2017.

Individuals found guilty of carrying on a business of providing massage services in an establishment for massage without a valid licence under Section 5(1) of the Massage Establishments Act 2017, may be liable to a fine of $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both. Repeat offenders found guilty of operating an unlicensed massage establishment may be liable to a fine not exceeding $20,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both.

The Police will continue with our regular enforcement checks on massage establishments and perpetrators will be dealt with in accordance with the law. 

PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
09 October 2022 @ 9:00 PM