Woman charged with theft again

[Kiyomori Taira]

Mar 25, 2011

Woman charged with theft again

By Elena Chong

Goh Lee Yin, 30, is back in court again for shop theft. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

A WOMAN who has been placed on probation twice before for shoplifting because of her mental disorder, is back in court again for shop theft.

But Goh Lee Yin's case was adjourned to May as her psychiatric report was not ready.

The 30-year-old engineer's lawyer, Mr Choo Si Sen, applied for the adjournment on Friday as he was still waiting for the report from the Institute of Mental Health.

Counsel and Goh asked the court to order the media not to publish her photograph but Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong rejected it.

Goh, who was previously diagnosed with kleptomania, has been accused of stealing a Gucci dress worth $3,199 from Gucci at Paragon on Dec 16, 2010.

She also allegedly stole a Chanel classic bag worth $4,790 from the Chanel boutique at Ngee Ann City on Feb 24, and a $610 Emporio Armani sweater at Meritus Mandarin Gallery in December 2010.

The maximum penalty for theft in dwelling is a jail term of seven years and a fine.

 

[Fornicator]

Well, I must say that this kleptomaniac has expensive taste!

I find it hard to believe that she does indeed have mental disorder, given the fact that items she was accused of stealing are bloody expensive.

What a waste, SYT some more. All the best to her.

Cheers.

 

[Toshiie Maeda]

May 19, 2011

Woman admits to stealing branded goods

By Elena Chong

Goh Lee Yin, 30, is accused of shoplifting $8,600 in items from upscale shops in Orchard Road. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

A WOMAN previously diagnosed with an uncontrollable urge to steal tried to leave a boutique after she was caught stealing a $4,790 bag.

A Community Court heard that Chanel store's security sensor alarm sounded when Goh Lee Yin, 30, left without paying for the item at Ngee Ann City on Feb 24 last year. When a staff approached her to check her belongings, Goh surrendered a handbag from a plastic bag and tried to leave but was detained.

Goh pleaded guilty on Thursday to the charge and another theft of a $610 sweater from Emporio Armani boutique at Mertius Mandarin Gallery in December. A third charge of stealing a $3,199 dress at Gucci will be taken into consideration when she is sentenced in July.

Her lawyer Choo Si Sen had asked for a day's jail plus fine each, while Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Kok Weng urged the court to impose no less than six weeks' jail in total.

DPP Wong gave a background of Goh who was last given 18 months' supervised probation by the High Court in 2007 after dismissing the prosecution's appeal against her one-day and $8,000-fine sentence for theft.

The latest psychiatric report on the former engineer stated that her thefts were 'unlikely to emanate from kleptomania''. Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong called for a pre-sentence report on July 6. The maximum penalty for theft is seven years and a fine on each charge.

 

[Dong Zhuo]

Jul 22, 2011

Woman jailed, fined for shop theft

By Elena Chong

Goh Lee Yin (above), 30, unemployed, had pleaded guilty in May to two counts of theft of a Chanel bag worth $4,790 and an Emporio Armani sweater costing $610 in February and December last year respectively. A third charge of stealing a Gucci dress was taken into consideration. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

A WOMAN previously diagnosed to be suffering from kleptomania was jailed for six weeks and fined $4,000 on Friday for shoplifting.

Goh Lee Yin, 30, unemployed, had pleaded guilty in May to two counts of theft of a Chanel bag worth $4,790 and an Emporio Armani sweater costing $610 in February and December last year respectively. A third charge of stealing a Gucci dress was taken into consideration.

But while the former engineer was out on bail awaiting sentencing, she offended again by stealing $83 worth of items from the NTUC supermarket at Ang Mo Kio Hub on June 24. She has been in remand since June 25 as her court bail was revoked. On Friday, she admitted to the NTUC shop theft.

Goh, the court heard, had been granted several chances at rehabilitation. For her offences in 2005 and 2006, she had been given probation by the High Court. She was last placed on 18 months' supervised probation in November 2007.

The prosecution asked Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong for at least 10 weeks' imprisonment on the three charges but her lawyer Choo Si Sen sought a six-week jail term saying she had learnt her lesson and could be rehabilitated. District Judge Ng backdated her sentence to June 25.

The maximum sentence for theft in dwelling is seven years and a fine on each charge.

 

[CheesePie]

Pretty engineer in trouble with the law again
Lianhe Wanbao

<cite style="display: block; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wu Li Ying, 30, is in trouble with the law yet again.</cite>
A young and pretty female engineer and kleptomaniac is in trouble with the law again.

Wu Li Ying, 30, has been caught for trying to cheat a woman of two branded handbags worth a total of $67,500.

Wu had struck a deal to buy two Hermes handbags from another woman, Wu Xin Ning, 21, through an online forum.

Wu Li Ying had led Wu Xin Ning to believe that she had already transferred the sum of $67,500 to the latter through the bank.

In return, Wu Xin Ning handed the two branded bags to Wu Li Ying.

Realising that she had been cheated, Wu Xin Ning, an Indonesian Chinese studying in Singapore, lodged a police report several days later.

In order to catch the cheat, Wu Xin Ning even devised and set up a trap to lure Wu Li Ying out.

Wu Li Ying had only been out of jail for three months when she had committed the crime.

She had earlier been jailed for six weeks in July this year when she stole again while out on bail.

Wu Li Ying was diagnosed with kleptomania when she was in primary three.

Kleptomania is a psychological condition that causes the sufferer to have irresistible urges to steal.

Wu has been convicted multiple times for theft and her family had even rallied around her to keep her from stealing again.

Her family accompanies and supervises her at all times, to and from work, and ensures she goes for treatments and takes her medication on time.

But their efforts have gone to waste with Wu's relapse.

Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 20 November 2011.

 

[CheesePie]

Serial shoplifter accused of online cheating denied bail

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Goh Lee Yin was denied bail and ordered to be remanded a week for further investigations into four cheating charges. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

By Khushwant Singh

A former engineer was denied bail and ordered to be remanded a week for further investigations into four cheating charges.

Goh Lee Yin is accused of not paying a woman who sold her two Hermes bags worth $67,500 in an online transaction in October.

The 30-year-old also failed to pay a total of $43,200 to two other women in September and November for four other Hermes bags.
She was charged with cheating last week.

Court papers state that Goh, now unemployed, managed to convince Ms Cindy Lestari, 21, that she had transferred the money to her bank account last month.

Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.
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