Apr 19, 2011
Two men get jail and caning for house robbery
By Elena Chong
TWO men were jailed on Tuesday for robbery.
Tay Chuan Bock, 48, a contractor, was given 31/2 years' jail and six strokes of the cane for robbing and restraining a housewife with five others at her house off Bukit Batok Road on Sept 22, 2010.
He and his accomplices jointly robbed the 42-year-old woman of $112,792 after tying her up, her eight-year-old daughter and Filipino maid.
Four of the men had entered the house by posing as National Environment Agency officers to check for mosquito breeding.
Donning overalls and surgical masks, they even brought along a fogging equipment operated by Low Soon Kwee, 38.
Low, unemployed, was also in court to plead guilty to a charge of robbing Mr Ang Yeow Chong, 42 - who is self-employed - of $1,000 and a bunch of keys at a carpark of Block 114 Teck Whye Lane in Aug 29, 2010.
He was sentenced to four years and 12 strokes of the cane. Two other charges of robbery - including the Sept 22 incident - were taken into consideration.
He has previous convictions for unrelated offences. The cases against two others, Ong Bee Han, 33, and Khoo Wei Chyi, 37, both unemployed, are pending. Two others are at large.