The general consensus in the last 18 hrs is that the AGC made a massive boo boo. This is not a situation where a few ignorant chaps were making uninformed comments. This is not a case where people with agendas trying to tarnish the reputation of the courts. This is also not situation where there has been an organised and coordinated effort to demean the courts.
This is in effect a spontaneous reaction from many quarters and from people from all walks of life. This is a case where a taxi driver was robbed of his taxi, driven in a dangerous manner resulting in an airport worker being killed. A violent robbery followed by an unnecessary death of an innocent person.
And yes the sentence was unusual or more precisely very unusual in the eyes of the layman. Was the reaction unexpected? I think not. Minister of Home Affairs, had to explain at great lengths the Woffles Wu case with little success. The mystery remains. The editor with the state controlled press was let off with a fine as result of an error by a judge after killing a motorcyclist while on her handphone. Then the PRC businesswomen with means who submitted forged document to gain entry to Singapore was successful with her appeal and was fined while the usual sentence was a term in prison. And the list goes on and on and the common thread holding all these interesting cases is that the person is either connected or a foreigner.
So what should the authorities or AGC should have considered and done before the legal threats were issued.
1) The comments were from many quarters and therefore even a moron would have realised that this cannot be malicious or mischievous or organised. A genuine expression of concern from the court of public opinion. In this case the well worn adage of seeing Justice being done went right out of the window.
2) Examine internally why this case drew such a strong reaction in such a spontaneous manner and if the case from the moment the accused was charged to the sentence was done right. If he was mad, why proceed with the charge. He was medically found sane at the time of the incident yet got a huge discount for being mad. So is he mad or not?
3) Issue a statement explaining the case and why a sentence of that nature.
Honestly I wonder which moron came up with the idea of issuing legal threats to so many parties and making a fool of the AGC and the Govt.
This is in effect a spontaneous reaction from many quarters and from people from all walks of life. This is a case where a taxi driver was robbed of his taxi, driven in a dangerous manner resulting in an airport worker being killed. A violent robbery followed by an unnecessary death of an innocent person.
And yes the sentence was unusual or more precisely very unusual in the eyes of the layman. Was the reaction unexpected? I think not. Minister of Home Affairs, had to explain at great lengths the Woffles Wu case with little success. The mystery remains. The editor with the state controlled press was let off with a fine as result of an error by a judge after killing a motorcyclist while on her handphone. Then the PRC businesswomen with means who submitted forged document to gain entry to Singapore was successful with her appeal and was fined while the usual sentence was a term in prison. And the list goes on and on and the common thread holding all these interesting cases is that the person is either connected or a foreigner.
So what should the authorities or AGC should have considered and done before the legal threats were issued.
1) The comments were from many quarters and therefore even a moron would have realised that this cannot be malicious or mischievous or organised. A genuine expression of concern from the court of public opinion. In this case the well worn adage of seeing Justice being done went right out of the window.
2) Examine internally why this case drew such a strong reaction in such a spontaneous manner and if the case from the moment the accused was charged to the sentence was done right. If he was mad, why proceed with the charge. He was medically found sane at the time of the incident yet got a huge discount for being mad. So is he mad or not?
3) Issue a statement explaining the case and why a sentence of that nature.
Honestly I wonder which moron came up with the idea of issuing legal threats to so many parties and making a fool of the AGC and the Govt.
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