A woman who conspired with her boyfriend and his twin to steal from her own family was sentenced to probation while the other two received a jail sentence.
22-year-old Tiffany Tan Hwee Shaun, the one who came out with the plan and conducted the theft only receive a 15-months sentenced with a SGD$5,000 bond in place of her good behaviour.
How it happened
Only 10 July 2020, Tan rented two vehicles a BMW for her own transport and another Suzuki to store the stollen goods.
The next day while her father and brother were not home, Tan brought her mother out for supper so that the house would be empty. She later pretended that she forgot her mobile home and rush back home to execute the plan.
Tan’s boyfriend would then accompany her mother so she would not return home serving as a “lookout”.
The boyfriend’s twin brother went to the unit with Tanto start stealing, they took her a safe which contains a Rolex watch and stole an envelope containing SGD$34,000 in cash along with Louis Vuitton merchandise, gold jewellery and all the piggy banks in the house.
How they got caught
The Police arrested all three of them after reviewing the CCTV footage of the building and showed them dragging the merchandise into the lift.