Pizza deliveryman on trial for rape of 16-year-old girl

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Pizza deliveryman on trial for rape of 16-year-old girl

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, 30, is accused of masquerading as a police officer and raping a teenage girl, after spotting her and her boyfriend behaving intimately at a staircase landing.

By Vanessa Paige Chelvan
Posted 24 May 2016 19:07 Updated 26 May 2016 07:17

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, accused of impersonating as a cop and raping a 16-year-old girl, at Supreme Court on May 25, 2016. (Photo: Robin Choo/TODAY)

SINGAPORE: A pizza deliveryman who allegedly masqueraded as a police officer and raped a 16-year-old girl in October 2013 went on trial in the High Court on Tuesday (May 24).

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, 30, allegedly saw the girl and her boyfriend behaving intimately at the staircase landing of a Woodlands block on Oct 9, 2013. He stopped the couple and demanded they produce their identity cards, telling them he was a police officer, prosecutors said.

Worried that Firman would report their actions to their parents and school, the couple, both 16, said they complied. Firman then led the girl away from her boyfriend and asked her what she would give him in return for keeping silent. The teen offered Firman money for helping her, but he raped her instead, prosecutors said.

Firman denied the rape and two other charges for sexual assault and impersonating a police officer, despite the fact that his semen was found on the victim’s clothes and panties.

The prosecution is expected to call on a witness who heard a male voice say “officer” and saw Firman walking away with the victim on Oct 9. The witness also came across the victim’s boyfriend “pacing nervously” on the ground floor of the block. The pair then searched for the victim for an hour but to no avail, the prosecution said.

The girl’s boyfriend, who is also expected to testify, eventually found her at Woodlands Bus Interchange with Firman. A family friend of the victim, who was also at Woodlands Bus Interchange, is expected to testify the girl was “scared, distraught and sobbing”, said prosecutors.

According to the victim’s family friend, the teen said Firman had raped her and that she had not struggled as she had been in “a state of fear” and did not want Firman, whom she believed to be a police officer, to tell her parents about her relationship with her boyfriend.

The prosecution added Firman’s mobile phone was sent for forensic analysis upon his arrest, and records show he had researched rape and fellatio on Oct 10, a day after the rape.

- CNA/mz

 

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Witness a pervert, claims man accused of raping teenage girl

Firman (right) said that on the day of his alleged offences, he found Mr Tung touching himself while the teenage couple were having sex.PHOTOS: ST FILE

Published May 28, 2016, 5:00 am SGT

He also alleges police tortured him after his arrest, and teenage girl initiated intimacy

Selina Lum

A man accused of raping a teenage girl after posing as a policeman said the lift technician who asked to see his police warrant card was a "pervert".

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, 30, said that on the day of his alleged offences, he found Mr Tung Shue Kiong crouching at the stairwell on the 12th floor of Block 362, Woodlands Avenue 5, touching himself while the teenage couple were having sex.

He said it was not the first time Mr Tung had done so, and cited a previous encounter where he had caught the 57-year-old man "peeping at somebody".

Firman, taking the stand yesterday, also said that, after his arrest, he told the police his "conscience is clear" but was tortured by two officers, who "bashed" him against the wall, then stripped him naked and poured ice water on him.

Breaking down in court, he added that the officers showed him a CD of surveillance footage as well as a DNA report, and asked him to confess to the crimes.

As for the 16-year-old girl, he said she had initiated physical intimacy and performed a sex act on him but he pushed her away "gently" when she wanted to sit on him.

Firman, a former pizza delivery man now working as a fire safety consultant, faces one charge each of rape, sexual assault and impersonating a police officer.

He allegedly committed the offences on Oct 9, 2013, and was arrested two days later, after his identity was established from DNA samples taken from the girl's clothes.

Yesterday, Firman gave a version of events completely at odds with those given by the alleged victim, her then boyfriend, and Mr Tung.

The prosecution's case is that after observing the teen couple having sex, Firman told them he was a policeman and asked for their identity cards. He then sent the boy away before taking the girl to a nearby block, where he raped her.

Mr Tung said he sensed that something was amiss when he saw Firman and the girl. He searched five blocks of flats, and eventually found Firman and confronted him at Woodlands bus interchange.

But Firman painted Mr Tung as a dubious character who has a habit of loitering suspiciously around the neighbourhood. He said on the day in question, he was on his motorcycle when he spotted Mr Tung. He said he parked his motorbike and tailed Mr Tung, who took the stairs.

Firman, who was captured on surveillance video walking backwards into the lift, said he took the lift to the 12th floor. He spotted Mr Tung on that floor and, later, he stumbled on the couple as he walked down the stairs. Firman said Mr Tung left the stairwell when Firman said "there are police officers around".

Firman said he asked the couple for their age and they showed him their identity cards. The boy then left, leaving Firman alone with the girl. Firman said she asked him to accompany her home and when they were at Block 359, told him to walk up the staircase with her.

After telling him that she "used to go around these blocks doing sexual activities", she moved in to kiss him and touched his groin. He was "shocked", he said.

After Firman's arrest, police extracted 46 images from his phone, most of which were screenshots of Internet searches on rape.

He said his wife had used his phone to research the topic as she had been raped after his friend had spiked her drink. Firman is expected to be cross-examined by the prosecution on Tuesday.

 

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Man who posed as cop and raped 16-year-old girl sentenced to 12½ years' jail and 11 strokes

Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew was sentenced to 12½ years' jail and 11 strokes of the cane by the High Court for posing as a policeman and raping a 16-year-old girl. ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

Published Jul 13, 2016, 5:23 pm SGT
Selina Lum

SINGAPORE - A former pizza deliveryman was on Wednesday (July 13) sentenced to 12½ years' jail and 11 strokes of the cane by the High Court for posing as a policeman and raping a 16-year-old girl he had "caught" having sex with her boyfriend in a HDB stairwell in Woodlands.

The wife and two-year-old daughter of Muhammad Firman Jumali Chew, 30, were in court as he was first found guilty of, then sentenced for, three charges of rape, sexual assault and impersonating a police officer.

The prosecution's case is that after observing the teen couple having sex at Block 362, Woodlands Avenue 5, Firman told them he was a policeman and asked for their identity cards. He then sent the boy away before taking the girl to Block 359, where he raped her.

A bystander, lift technician Tung Shue Kiong, said he sensed that something was amiss when he saw Firman and the girl at Block 362. After getting the story from the boyfriend, Mr Tung searched five blocks of flats and eventually confronted Firman at Woodlands bus interchange.

The girl made a police report that night and Firman's identity was established from semen on her underwear. It emerged on Wednesday that he has past convictions for housebreaking, theft and fraudulent possession of property.

During the rape trial, Firman claimed that the girl had led him up the stairs at Block 359, pulled down his zipper and sexually violated him while he looked at the ceiling with his arms by his side.

Firman also painted Mr Tung as a pervert. He claimed that he caught Mr Tung crouching at the stairwell, touching himself while peeping at the teen couple having sex.

On Wednesday, Judicial Commissioner Hoo Sheau Peng said Firman's account was "completely unbelievable, incredible and inconsistent" with objective evidence and the testimony of other witnesses. On the other hand, the victim's testimony was "clear, coherent and consistent".

The judicial commissioner dismissed Firman's accusations against Mr Tung as "unsubstantiated". She also found that Firman's claims of being tortured by the police after his arrest to be unfounded.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sharmila Sripathy-Shanaz had sought a sentence of 13½ years' jail and 11 stokes of the cane. "The evidence reveals a guile and cunning sexual predator who manipulated an innocent teenager into satisfying his depraved lust," said the DPP.

Firman's lawyer, Mr Ravinderpal Singh, asked for 10 years' jail instead, noting his low IQ and his delusional beliefs of persecution and jealousy.

 

[Lizzert]

Wah, this Firman rapist is really something..say witness is cheekopek pervert and
gGo to court dress macham Queens Council, carry folded Jacket stylishly slung over bent arm.
Wasted talent, should have been in local politics