Former DPP Spencer Gwee found guilty of paid sex with underaged prostitute
Published on Jul 12, 2013
Former deputy public prosecutor Spencer Gwee (above) has been charged with paying for sex with an underage prostitute. Gwee was on Friday, July 12, 2013, found guilty of paid sex with an underaged prostitute. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Lim Yan Liang
Lawyer and ex-DPP Spencer Gwee was on Friday found guilty of paid sex with an underaged prostitute.
Judge Toh Yung Cheong said the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, and found the 61-year-old guilty of one charge of having paid the Vietnamese prostitute $300 for sex at Four Chain View Hotel in Geylang on the evening of July 19, 2011.
In his written grounds, the judge addressed several key areas of Gwee's defence, including his claim that he did not speak Vietnamese and never had a conversation with the girl, even though there were telco records of SMSes exchanged between their phones.
"The communication between (the girl) and the accused was more or less limited to requesting sexual intercourse; (she) was not claiming that the accused recited the Iliad or the Odyssey," said Judge Toh.
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