David James Roach, a 31-year-old Canadian national robbed a Singapore Standard Chartered Bank outlet from Holland Avenue back on July 7 2016.

He was 25 years old when he committed the crime. Earlier today he was sentenced to a jail term of 5 years along with 6 strokes of the rotan.

During the robbery, he told the bank’s teller that he has a gun and the teller who was being threatened by was a pregnant lady and comply with his orders as she was afraid. After handing over approximately $30,000, David makes the run to Changi Airport and flies to Thailand.

The reason why the conviction took so long was caused by his money laundering activities in Thailand which landed him in jail for 14 months. After his release, he was extradited to Britain where he faced a legal battle against extradition to Singapore. Singapore reassured the British authorities that David will not be canned after his extradition in Singapore. However, the sentence he received included 6 strokes of the rotan.

Although David has tried everything he can to prevent the extradition to Singapore he failed to do so and he was extradited to Singapore early last year, during the course of his stay in Singapore he appealed multiple times against the British High Court to revoke the extradition.

37-year-old Leow Wei Liang received an additional charge earlier today(July 7) for animal cruelty. On May 2, he took a penknife and slashed a cat at a carpark located at around 11 am. at Block 352A Ang Mo Kio Street 21.

When the court was in session, Leow pleaded and begged not to go to jail and asked for his released.

Since April at least 10 cats were found with knife cuts on their bodies and the area where the injured cats were discovered are located in the vicinity of Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1.

If anyone is aware of any animal abuse case please contact AVS at 1800-476-1600

If Leow is convicted of animal cruelty he will max up to a maximum jail term of 18 months and/or fin of SGD$15,000.

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A girl is seeking advice after she “made the discovery of the century” and found out that guys can sit down and pee as well.

Here is her questions and doubts

How do you guys see a man who sits to pee?

Due to covid, my boyfriend and I often video call each other and sometimes the timing can be a bit inappropriate like when he uses the toilet, but it doesn’t affect our sweet conversation cuz we cannot smell each other.

But there’s one thing that bothers me and makes me curious, it’s the first time for me to learn that guys can sit and pee and he forbids me to ask other guys. But this question keeps haunting my mind until I couldn’t sleep at night and I want to seek answers from you guys.

I would be very glad if any gentlemen here could answer me. Thank you!

According to Shin Min Daily News, a man was once again charged after serving his prison sentence for having sex with an underage sex worker.

44-year-Gao Yong Wen was charged on Tuesday (July 6) for having sex with a minor on 18 March 2020 at around 7 PM. He allegedly paid a 16-year-old girl SGD$100 to have sex with her.

Gao is currently out on bail for SGD$20,000.

He will be back in court on August 3 2021.

What could he face?

The offence of having commercial sex with minors under 18 is found under Section 376B of the Penal Code: “(1) Any person who obtains for consideration the sexual services of a person, who is under 18 years of age, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, or with fine, or with both (Source: www.singaporecrimminallawyer.com)

As this is not Gao’s first offense he will be looking at a higher or the maximum punishment.

Two men were caught printing $100 counterfeit Singapore bills and a total amount of $17,500 was seized. One of the men used the bill to place TOTO and horse bets at a Singapore Pools outlet.

According to the Police media release, a 63-year-old man used one of the counterfeit bills to place a bet at a Singapore Pools outlet located in Ubi. On Sunday(July 4), another man was arrested with the counterfeit bill on him along with drug paraphernalia.

On the same day, a 27-year-old and 44-year-old man were arrested and $17,500 in counterfeit banknotes were seized. The 44-year-old man will be in court and face charges for counterfeiting currency the 27-year-old man is still assisting in investigations.

If the man is found guilting of counterfeiting banknotes he can face up to 20 years in jail and fined.

For possession of counterfeit banknotes, one can be jailed up to a maximum of 15 years, those found with equipment or materials to forge banknotes can be jailed up to a maximum of 20 years.

A netizen shared a story about an encounter that she had with a supernatural entity.

She wrote that ever since she was young, she’d had the innate ability to see ghosts and could apparently communicate with them.

Essentially, she has the “third eye”.

But as she grew older, she stopped seeing spirits (not very often anyways).

She said that one night while she was sleeping alone at home, she woke up in the middle of the night to use the toilet.

As she walked past the kitchen to get to the toilet, she saw a black figure that looked like a woman, outside her window.

Thinking that it was her neighbour, she didn’t pay attention to it and proceeded to use the toilet.

When she came out of the toilet, she suddenly felt a chill as she realised that this was her kitchen window and there was no walkway or corridor outside it.

And she was living on the 12th floor.

She noticed that the figure was looking at her and felt like she (the figure) could see her (the woman) looking at her.

The figure then asked her in Malay:

“You can see me?”

Before it disappeared.

Images source: True Horror Stories POV YouTube and The Curtain Expert (Images used for illustration purpose only)

A man spoke what many of us feel like when taking the public transport, whether taking the train or bus some of us will always encounter some aunties that will always rush up to the train or bus.

Sometimes it is so annoying that we feel like shoving them away.

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A 38-year-old man allegedly took upskirt videos of a woman at Clementi MRT station and was spotted by Transcom officers.

He was subsequently arrested.

The incident happened on 6 July at about 7.20am.

The female victim was on the escalator as the time of the offence and the man was spotted in the act by the Transcom officers before being detained and arrested.

He is believed to have been involved in other similar cases of voyeurism at several other MRT stations.

At the time of writing, police investigations are still ongoing.

Images source: Google Maps and SG Uncensored file photo

The Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) announced earlier today that from 15 July onwards, staff working in higher risk settings will be required (made compulsory) to take the Fast and East Test (FET) Rostered Routine Testing (RRT).

Those in higher risk settings include:

• Staff working in dine-in F&B establishments
• Staff working in personal care services, including facials, spas, massage, hairdressing etc
• Gyms/fitness studios

MOH earlier announced that Over The Counter Antigen Rapid Tests (OTC ARTs) would be made available at local pharmacies from 16 June onwards.

Images source: Quidel and Unsplash