32-year-old caught after posting pictures online of herself with employer’s valuables An Indonesian maid stole a Chopard ladies’ watch worth $35,000, a Celine snakeskin handbag that cost $7,500 and a pink Hermes crocodile skin wallet
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Britons rape trial: Second accused also says woman consented to sex
SINGAPORE: The second of three British men accused of gang-raping a Malaysian woman at Carlton Hotel in Singapore last year said the 22-year-old did not resist. In fact, “she was very sexually aroused”, Vu Thai
Read moreEx-MD jailed for smashing glass against man’s head
Frenchman Franck Louis Maurice Peltier pleaded guilty to causing hurt to a Briton at a pub in Amoy Street. A company managing director smashed a glass against a man’s head in a pub after the
Read moreSaudi diplomat who molested hotel intern loses appeal
The High Court dismissed as “completely unmeritorious” an appeal by a Saudi Arabian diplomat against his conviction and sentence for molesting a hotel intern while he was here on holiday with his wife and three
Read moreMan jailed for smuggling chewing tobacco, first conviction under amended law
SINGAPORE: A 32-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to four weeks’ jail on Thursday (Jul 20) for smuggling into Singapore chewing tobacco products with a street value of about S$9,200. Kavinthiran is the first person to
Read moreSuspect in Woodlands pellet-shooting incident arrested
SINGAPORE: A 49-year-old man suspected of firing pellets at cars at Woodlands has been arrested, police confirmed on Wednesday (Jul 19). In a media release, police said they were alerted to two cars that were
Read moreDrug mule who transited in Singapore with 43 pellets of Ice gets 25 years’ jail and caning
Adri Anton Kalangie was sentenced to 25 years’ jail and 15 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to importing not less than 249.99g of methamphetamine on Monday, July 17 2017 SINGAPORE – A
Read moreBoon Tat stabbing: Accused sent for psychiatric evaluation
Suspect’s family to get him a lawyer by next court date; victim cremated yesterday The man accused of murdering his son-in-law before a lunchtime crowd in the Central Business District on Monday was taken back
Read more1MDB probe: Ex-BSI banker gets 54 months’ jail for money laundering, cheating
SINGAPORE – A Singapore court jailed a former wealth manager of Swiss bank BSI for four and a half years on Wednesday for money laundering and cheating in a case linked to an investigation involving
Read moreBoon Tat Street murder victim sold ‘everything he owned’ to save business
The victim of the fatal Boon Tat Street stabbing managed to turn around a shipping business on the brink of bankruptcy during the 2007-2008 economic crisis. Mr Spencer Tuppani, 38, who was the chief executive
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