Senior legal manager fined for stealing jewellery of landlord's wife
Published on Nov 05, 2012
Senior legal manager, Adrian Anand Ambrose, stole jewellery worth a total of $9,600 belonging to his landlord's wife while she was on holiday. On Monday, he was fined $4,000 for theft. --ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
By Khushwant Singh
A SENIOR legal manager stole jewellery worth a total of $9,600 belonging to his landlord's wife while she was on holiday. On Monday, Adrian Anand Ambrose, 36, was fined $4,000 for theft.
A district court heard that Ambrose, a Malaysian, was renting a room in Tai Hwan Heights in Upper Serangoon from Madam Vasanta Ramakrishnan's husband. On July 12 this year, the couple left for Spain. Five days later, Ambrose went into their room looking for valuable to steal as he was in need of money. The next day, he stole the six pieces of jewellery to two pawnshops.
Upon her return on July 23, Madam Vasanta, 49, discovered that the more expensive jewellery pieces she kept in a drawer in her room were missing.
Asking the court to impose only a fine, defence counsel Anand Nalachandran said that Ambrose had handed $4,068 to Madam Vasanta as restitution for her to recover her jewellery from the pawnshops.
Read the full story in The Straits Times on Wednesday (Nov 7).
