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Actor Edwin Goh denies hitting Ukrainian model ex-girlfriend Darina Sheremet​

Singapore-based Ukrainian model Darina Sheremet said her ex-boyfriend Edwin Goh hit her in the face and stole her money. PHOTOS:_DARINA_SHEREMET_,EDWININJA/INSTAGRAM
Suzanne Sng

June 28, 2023

SINGAPORE – Local actor Edwin Goh has denied hitting former girlfriend Darina Sheremet, a Singapore-based Ukrainian model, as well as taking her money.
She had made the accusations after he posted a video on Tuesday, in which he claimed she had been unfaithful to him during their relationship.
Goh, 28, and his current girlfriend, influencer-actress Rachel Wan, 27, were answering questions on their new YouTube channel when he spoke about his ex: “Sometimes things between couples, they don’t work out, but (in) this instance, she was actually unfaithful.”
The former couple broke up in August 2022 after three years together and Goh revealed in March that he was in a new relationship with Wan.
Netizens began commenting on Sheremet’s most recent Instagram post, which was of her 21st birthday celebration on Tuesday, after the video was uploaded.
In the comment section, she was asked if she had cheated on him and she replied: “He hit me in the face, stole my money, etc.”
A few commenters chimed in to say they witnessed him hitting her in Bali and that the police were called.

Sheremet continued to reply to other comments, saying that she had evidence, and also posted on Instagram Stories, writing: “Of the many topics he could have talked about, he chose to bring up why we broke up but decided not to tell the truth.”
“I was not unfaithful and did not cheat on him,” she added. “There is a real reason we broke up. He and many others know that reason and I chose to keep quiet about it in order to not further hurt his career, but I will say this: No woman deserves to be physically beaten or even verbally abused by a man. Ever.”
A couple of hours later, Goh released a lengthy statement on Instagram Stories: “I had chosen to address (my breakup) with the intent of providing some closure on this issue as there were many speculations. I did not mean to disrespect Darina and with hindsight, I realised that I should not have shared publicly as this was a private matter between us.”
He added: “While Darina and I had our disagreements, I did not use physical force on her. Our relationship ended after our argument in Bali.”
He also addressed the money matter, saying: “After we broke up, she was unable to return to Singapore following the expiry of her visa, and I had helped to pack and send her belongings back to her. I had also assisted to deposit her existing cash in Singapore into my account and transferred these to her. Even though we had already broken up, I had just wanted to help her and put the past behind us.”

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However, Sheremet refuted that in another comment on her Instagram account, writing: “I had to beg him for months for my money back that he took. He used the funds to pay the fine for his drink-driving charge and for him to go to the Philippines and I have screenshots that prove the months I had to beg for my own money. It took almost a year and I had to even ask his mum.”
Goh was convicted of drink driving on Oct 13, 2022, and was fined $6,500 and disqualified from driving for three years.
Goh and Wan are moving to Australia on Saturday, he revealed in his Instagram Stories post, and he also said that he would be taking a break.

 

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Singapore Idol ex-judge Ken Lim given 1 more sexual offence charge; 5 alleged victims so far​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Sep 20, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim Chih Chiang was on Wednesday handed one more charge of insulting a woman’s modesty, involving a fifth alleged victim.
Lim, 59, is now accused of six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation.
He was the executive director of record label Hype Records when he allegedly committed the offences.
For his latest charge, Lim was at the company’s business address in Henderson Road at around 7pm on or around July 25, 2012 when he allegedly uttered the words to a woman: “Are you a virgin...What if I have sex with you right now?”
He was said to be speaking to her about a career in music at the time.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will be on Friday.
Separately, between 1998 and 1999, while at his home, he purportedly played his first alleged victim a porn video which showed a woman engaging in penetrative sex with multiple men.

During the same period at the Hype Records office, he allegedly said to the same woman that she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her with this.
Between 1999 and 2002 at Hype Records, he purportedly asked a second alleged victim whether she was a virgin, how could she write deeper songs if she was sexually inexperienced, whether he could be her first sex partner, and how she pleasured herself sexually.
During that period, he also allegedly asked her to write out her sexual fantasies as homework and offered himself as a sexual partner to fulfil her sexual fantasies.
In 2013, at Hype Records, he allegedly told a third person if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something. He also allegedly made the gesture of unbuckling his belt and removing his belt strap.
Lim was first charged on March 20 with one count of molestation.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman by touching her breast on Nov 23, 2021, at the Hype Records office.
For each count of insulting a woman’s modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined.
And for molestation, an offender can be jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or receive any combination of such punishments.
Lim cannot be caned as he is over 50 years old.

 

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Singapore Idol ex-judge Ken Lim given 1 more sexual offence charge; 5 alleged victims so far​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Sep 20, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim Chih Chiang was on Wednesday handed one more charge of insulting a woman’s modesty, involving a fifth alleged victim.
Lim, 59, is now accused of six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation.
He was the executive director of record label Hype Records when he allegedly committed the offences.
For his latest charge, Lim was at the company’s business address in Henderson Road at around 7pm on or around July 25, 2012 when he allegedly uttered the words to a woman: “Are you a virgin...What if I have sex with you right now?”
He was said to be speaking to her about a career in music at the time.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will be on Friday.
Separately, between 1998 and 1999, while at his home, he purportedly played his first alleged victim a porn video which showed a woman engaging in penetrative sex with multiple men.

During the same period at the Hype Records office, he allegedly said to the same woman that she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her with this.
Between 1999 and 2002 at Hype Records, he purportedly asked a second alleged victim whether she was a virgin, how could she write deeper songs if she was sexually inexperienced, whether he could be her first sex partner, and how she pleasured herself sexually.
During that period, he also allegedly asked her to write out her sexual fantasies as homework and offered himself as a sexual partner to fulfil her sexual fantasies.
In 2013, at Hype Records, he allegedly told a third person if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something. He also allegedly made the gesture of unbuckling his belt and removing his belt strap.
Lim was first charged on March 20 with one count of molestation.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman by touching her breast on Nov 23, 2021, at the Hype Records office.
For each count of insulting a woman’s modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined.
And for molestation, an offender can be jailed for up to two years, or fined or caned or receive any combination of such punishments.
Lim cannot be caned as he is over 50 years old.

This kind of fuck face

 

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智强=sex maniac

 

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Lawyers of Ken Lim, S’pore Idol ex-judge, succeed in having his 7 charges heard in separate trials​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Nov 17, 2023

SINGAPORE - Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim, who faces seven charges of sex offences involving five women, is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one alleged victim.
This development came about after District Judge Wong Peck rejected the prosecution’s application for all seven charges to be handled together in one trial.
The defence had objected to the application earlier, arguing that the alleged incidents happened over many years, and it would not be fair to their client to lump them together.
Delivering her decision on Friday, the judge said there would not be practical benefits for a joint trial.
She added she was persuaded by the defence’s arguments, noting that the women did not know each other and that the alleged offences took place over vastly different time periods.
Lim, 59, is accused of sexual offences involving five alleged victims from 1998 to 2021.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on Nov 23, 2021. The prosecution said she was then talking to him during a work interview.

He allegedly insulted the modesty of four other women.
Between 1998 and 1999, he allegedly showed a pornographic video to a female artiste under his management, who was between 19 and 21 years old then.
He allegedly told her she was sexually inexperienced and he could help her.

Lim allegedly made lewd remarks to another female artiste under his management between 1999 and 2002. She was then between 18 and 20 years old.
In one instance, he purportedly asked the girl if he could be her first sex partner. He is also accused of offering to be her sexual partner to “fulfil her sexual fantasies” on another occasion.
In July 2012, he allegedly asked a 26-year-old woman: “What if I have sex with you right now?”
The prosecution said she was then talking to him about a career in music.
In 2013, Lim allegedly made sexually-charged remarks to a 24-year-old woman who was an artiste working with him.
According to the prosecution, he allegedly told her “that if she could have sex for nothing, why not have sex for something”. Lim allegedly unbuckled his belt then.
In their submissions, Deputy Public Prosecutors Gail Wong and Sruthi Boppana said Lim got to know the women while he was the director of Hype Records.
The DPPs said he allegedly committed the offences within a work context, against artistes or women he was then engaging.
They told Judge Wong the charges were part of a series of alleged offences of a similar nature.
They had argued that the handling of his charges in a joint trial would limit any prejudice to Lim that may be caused by multiple trials.
In their submissions, the prosecution said: “Crucially, the common thread binding the present charges together is the modus operandi adopted by the accused, showing proximity of purpose.
“From the relationship of the victims with the accused...and the location of the offences - all in the office save for (one charge), it can be reasonably inferred that he committed the offences in his position as the director of Hype Records.”
Lim is represented by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, Mr Paul Loy and Mr Calvin Ong. They objected to the prosecution’s application to combine the seven charges into one trial.
The lawyers stated in their submissions: “The application is a transparent attempt to colour the learned trial judge and prejudice Mr Lim by parading a chorus line of unrelated complainants, each of whom relates to entirely separate alleged incidents.”
The lawyers argued the prosecution was trying to strengthen weak charges by colouring the perception of Mr Lim’s character.
They added: “We submit that this is deliberate, mischievous, and highly prejudicial to Mr Lim.”
The team from Wong Partnership told the judge there was no suggestion any of the complainants were related and/or know of each other.
They added: “The locations in which the alleged offences were supposedly committed are not consistent. Importantly, the supposed modus operandi of the offences are different; neither do the charges all arise from the same offence.”
The defence argued the charges relating to each individual complainant span entirely distinct and separate timelines.
Lim’s pre-trial conference will take place on Dec 8.

 

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‘I owe it to the other girls’: One of Ken Lim’s alleged victims comes forward after 11 years​

Former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim arriving at State Courts on May 6. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Samuel Devaraj

MAY 06, 2024

SINGAPORE – It was in a record label office in 2012 that former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim allegedly asked the singer and songwriter if she was a virgin, and what would happen if he had sex with her right then.
Unaware that this was a crime, the woman kept silent for more than a decade.
But, after she was made aware that Lim had been charged over similar offences, she decided to come forward and report the matter to the police.
On May 6, the singer-songwriter took the stand in a trial against Lim.
Lim, who is facing six counts of insulting a woman’s modesty and one count of molestation, is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one of his five alleged victims.
There is a gag order in place to protect the victims’ identities.
In her opening statement on May 6, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong said the victim who took the stand that day had met Lim twice in his office in 2012 after being introduced by a mutual contact.

Lim had been the executive director of record label Hype Records at that time.
DPP Wong said the victim had already released her first music album by the time she met Lim, and she had gone to him for music career advice.
Thirteen days after the second meeting, the prosecutor said Lim had asked the victim how she was doing and if she was still traumatised.

“We will show that he was referring to his last meeting with the victim where he had uttered the words ‘are you a virgin’ and ‘what if I have sex with you right now’ in the office carpark,” said DPP Wong.
She added that the victim had told her then boyfriend and present husband, as well as her father and sister, what Lim had said to her after the meeting.

Lim last communicated with her in January 2013, when he told her about a new talent show she should consider, DPP Wong said.
She added: “Around this period, she told her voice coach that Ken Lim was dodgy, and also told her drummer Ken Lim was sleazy to her, as they will testify.”
DPP Wong said the victim was relieved that she had not been molested and did not report the matter. She had not known that uttering sexually inappropriate words is a crime.
The prosecutor said that, without help from Lim, the victim released a second album, started her own music school and wrote other songs.
She said that it was only in June 2023, when she saw a news article on Lim’s charges over saying sexually insulting words to other women, that she realised what he had said to her was a crime, and she lodged a police report on that same day.
DPP Wong said the victim had flown in from London, where she is now based, “to give evidence because, in her words to her sister: ‘Maybe I owe it to myself and all the other girls... now that I am older and wiser’”.
Lim is represented by a team of lawyers from WongPartnership including Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, Mr Paul Loy and Mr Samuel Navindran.
At the beginning of the hearing on May 6, one of the issues raised was whether the alleged victim should be giving evidence in-camera, which would mean that the public would not be able to sit in the courtroom as she testifies.
According to the Criminal Procedure Code, if an accused is charged with a sexual offence, the court must order that the evidence of a witness who is an alleged victim be given in private, if the victim does not want to testify in open court.
The court also has the discretion to hold any hearing in private.

Arguing for in-camera testimony, DPP Wong said insulting one’s modesty is now considered a sexual offence following amendments to the law that came into effect in 2020.
She added that the alleged victim in this case wished to give her evidence in-camera.
Objecting to the application, Mr Tan said insulting the modesty of a woman was not considered a sexual offence at the time it allegedly took place in 2012.
He also said that the alleged victim is currently not vulnerable.
He added that, if she was prepared to make a serious allegation against Lim, she must be able to stand up and give her evidence in public.
This is so that his client would have the opportunity to not only “exonerate himself in the eyes of the court, but in the eyes of the public”.
District Judge Wong Peck granted the prosecution’s application.
Mr Tan then asked if Lim’s wife could remain in court, to give emotional support to him as the witness took the stand.
DPP Wong said this was an unusual request but said she did not object to it, and Lim’s wife was allowed to be present.
The rest of the public gallery was cleared at about 10.30am for the victim to take the stand.

 

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Woman upset after Ken Lim allegedly asked her sex-related question, ‘dissed’ her songwriting​

Ex-Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim (right), who was the Hype Records executive director, faces seven charges involving five women. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

MAY 10, 2024

SINGAPORE – One of the women who accused former Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim of insulting her modesty had testified that they met on July 25, 2012, during which he “dissed” her songwriting and allegedly asked her a sex-related question.
Even though she had given her testimony earlier this week in proceedings that were not open to the public, excerpts of what she had told the court emerged when defence lawyer Paul Loy grilled her husband, who took the stand on May 10.
The husband told the court that the woman, who is identified in court documents as V5, was upset when she later told him during a phone call about a sex-related question Lim had allegedly asked her during the meeting.
Lim, 60, is now on trial after he allegedly insulted her modesty.
Earlier this week, V5 testified that Lim had also said she did not have what it took to be a singer. He was the executive director of record label Hype Records at the time.
In earlier proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutor Gail Wong said that the woman, who is now a singer-songwriter based overseas, had gone to Lim for advice on a musical career.
V5 had testified that she found the criticisms upsetting and later spoke to her boyfriend on the evening of July 25, 2012, after the meeting.

The man, who is now her husband, told the court on May 10 that she was upset during the phone call.
He also testified that according to V5, Lim had asked her: “What if I have sex with you right now?”
The husband said: “She was upset after what happened and the question she was asked. The experience was distressing to her.”

V5, who was 26 at the time of the alleged offence, cannot be named due to a gag order. Details about her husband also cannot be disclosed, to protect her identity.
A team from Wong Partnership, led by Senior Counsel Tan Chee Meng, is representing Lim during the trial.

On May 10, Mr Loy, one of the defence lawyers, asked the husband of V5 if he knew through the phone call on July 25, 2012, that Lim had told V5 she did not have what it took to be a singer.
The husband replied that he could not recall. Among other things, he also could not recall if V5 told him that Lim had criticised her music.
Mr Loy also asked him: “Did she tell you during this call that she was in a blur and did not know what was happening?”
Again, the husband said that he could not remember.
When Mr Loy asked if his recollection was “hazy”, the husband replied: “I wouldn’t use ‘hazy’. It’s what I remember.”
However, the husband recalled that V5 had told him during the phone call about Lim’s alleged sex-related query.
According to the man, he went to sleep after the phone call.
The court heard that V5 sent him a text message around 9.30am the next day, and he replied: “Got meeting now, talk later.”
The husband also told the court that there was no suggestion she was upset at the time.
When DPP Wong re-examined the husband later in the day on May 10, the latter told the court: “She was not looking to be signed (to Lim’s record label)... She realised she didn’t enjoy performing on a big stage.”
Lim faces seven charges involving five women and is expected to undergo five different trials, each involving one alleged victim.
He is accused of molesting a 25-year-old woman at the Hype Records office in Henderson Road on Nov 23, 2021.
He allegedly insulted the modesty of four other women, including V5.

Between 1998 and 1999, Lim allegedly showed a pornographic video to a female artiste identified as V4, who was between 19 and 21 years old then and under his management.
Lim allegedly made lewd remarks to V2, another female artiste under his management, between 1999 and 2002. She was then between 18 and 20 years old.
In 2013, he allegedly made sexually charged remarks to V3, a 24-year-old woman who was an artiste working with him.
The trial continues.
Offenders convicted of insulting a woman’s modesty can be jailed for up to a year and fined.