Sep 17, 2010
Man on false e-mail charge
By Elena Chong
A 33-YEAR-OLD man was charged in court on Friday with sending a false message to the director of Criminal Investigation Department and two counts of insulting the modesty of a woman. David Arthur, who is Chinese, allegedly used another person's user-id to e-mail Senior Assistant Commissioner Ng Boon Gay of the CID and blind carbon copied to 35 other officers on Oct 13 last year.
Among other things, he challenged the police to arrest him and put him into prison. He is also said to have used four-letter words and claimed he had raped a girl and that the police could not catch him. In the other two charges, he is accused of insulting the modesty of a 31-year-old woman by sending her vulgar SMSes on Jan 23 at about 3.30am and 9.30am.
If convicted under the Telecommunications Act, he can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to three years or both. For insulting modesty of a woman, the maximum penalty is a year's jail and a fine. David was remanded for psychiatric assessment. His next court date is Oct 1.