Serious Foreign Diplomat Jailed For Sexually Assaulting Intern! Guess His Nationality!

[JohnTan]

SINGAPORE: A Saudi diplomat was found guilty on Wednesday (Feb 1) of molesting a 20-year-old student interning at a hotel he stayed at while on holiday in Singapore last year.

Beijing-based diplomat Bander Yahya A Alzahrani, 39, was convicted on three charges of sexual assault after an eight-day trial, during which he claimed the victim had conspired with other hotel staff to frame him and extort money from him.

District Judge Lee Poh Choo rejected Alzahrani’s defence, finding that the victim had no reason to falsely implicate him. On the contrary, the victim’s account had to be “dragged out” of her, as she worried the episode would be “interpreted negatively”, and that she would be seen as “unsuitable for the hotel industry”, the judge said.

The court heard that on Aug 14 last year, Alzahrani cornered the victim in the bathroom of his Sentosa hotel room, where he sexually assaulted her for about 15 minutes.

He restrained the victim by hugging her, before groping her, kissing her face and neck and rubbing himself against her. He also forced her to touch him.

Judge Lee said that the fact that the victim did not shout for help or attempt to escape should not diminish her case. “There is no template for how a victim should or must react. It was obvious to me that the victim was timid and new to the real and harsh world”, she said.

She also said the victim should not be faulted for minor discrepancies in her evidence as it was “most unfortunate" that the police officers assigned to interview the victim were male and the woman was too embarrassed to detail what Alzahrani had done to her.

The diplomat meanwhile, was “not a credible witness”, the judge said, pointing out that it was only towards the end of the trial that Alzahrani claimed the victim had fallen on him and that he had placed both hands on her back to support her.

Alzahrani is expected to be sentenced on Friday. For using criminal force on the victim, he could be jailed for up to three months and fined up to S$1,500. For aggravated molest, he faces between two to 10 years’ jail and caning.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...ssaulting-hotel-intern/3483836.html?cid=fbcna

 

[cocobobo]

Hope justice is served.

I'm curious could he apply for diplomatic immunity if found guilty?

 

[mojito]

He diplomat in Beijing not Singapore so diplomatic immunity does not apply.

 

[Cottonmouth]

Flog him like a bloody swine.
80 lashes.

 

[JohnTan]

If we followed islamic laws, that woman would have long ago been jailed and flogged for illicit sex while the good man can go free with his reputation intact. This is a travesty!

 

[fupikee]

Flog him like a bloody swine.
80 lashes.

Let's bet.....this Saudi most likely only get a fine, maybe just $3,000, and a by the way warning from the judge...next time want free fuck, go fuck your own maid...not any maid in the hotel....

Anyone else want to bet?

 

[wikiphile]

If we followed islamic laws, that woman would have long ago been jailed and flogged for illicit sex while the good man can go free with his reputation intact. This is a travesty!

That is Good Ol' Sharia law you Islamphobic swine! :oIo:

This is a travesty of Islamic justice, the man wasn't given a fair trial as there were no four witnesses who witnessed the act!

 

[Cottonmouth]

Let's bet.....this Saudi most likely only get a fine, maybe just $3,000, and a by the way warning from the judge...next time want free fuck, go fuck your own maid...not any maid in the hotel....

Anyone else want to bet?

Heng you didn't bet.

Saudi diplomat swine/molester gets 26 months and one week in jail, 4 strokes of the cane in hotel Sinkie girl molest case.


Bander Yahya A. Alzahrani, 39, was convicted on Wednesday (Feb 1) of wrongfully restraining a young intern while molesting her twice and of using criminal force on her.

ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

Elena Chong

SINGAPORE - A Saudi Arabian diplomat molester who was convicted of twice molesting a sweet young hotel intern and using criminal force on her was sentenced to 26 months and one week in jail and four strokes of the cane on Friday (Feb 3).

Bander Yahya A. Alzahrani, who is attached to the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Beijing, is appealing against his conviction and sentence and $20,000 bail was allowed. (APPEAL YOUR MOTHER'S CCB!)

He has not left Singapore after his arrest as his passport has been impounded as part of bail conditions.

The 39-year-old father of three was on holiday here with his family when the offences were committed at a hotel in Sentosa on Aug 14 last year.

He was found guilty on Wednesday (Feb 1), after an eight-day trial, of kissing the 20-year-old intern on her neck and face and groping her nehneh while hugging her in the bathroom of the hotel room.

He was also found guilty of similarly kissing and groping her nehnehs a seond time while causing wrongful restraint to her; as well as forcing her to touch his cock.

District Judge Lee Poh Choo sentenced him to 26 months' jail and two strokes of the cane on each molestation charge, and one week for the criminal force charge. One of the molestation sentences and the criminal force sentence will run consecutively.

In her oral grounds, the district judge had found the victim to be "unusually convincing" and had no motive to falsely implicate Alzahrani.

She rejected the defence assertion that the whole incident was a set-up and that the victim conspired with other staff to bring those false allegations against him to extort money from him.

The victim had in fact been reluctant to divulge anything as she was "confused" and did not know what to do. She had said to a colleague, who had noticed the victim's distress and unusual behaviour, that the guest had told her this was a "top secret" between them.

Cajoled for hours by her colleagues, the victim eventually told and demonstrated her version of events to various persons, including the front office manager and a security executive, at different times that day.

The maximum penalty for aggravated molestation is between two and 10 years plus caning on each charge. For using criminal force, the maximum penalty is three months' jail and a $1,500 fine.

Deputy Public Prosecutors Kenny Yang and April Phang had asked for 27 months' jail and two strokes of the cane while the defence asked for the minimum 24 months' jail and one stroke for each molestation charge.

For using criminal force, the prosecution asked for two weeks' jail while the defence asked for a fine.

 

[maxxi]

Molestation case how can SPF not have female office during 1st response?

Ridiculous!

Saudi like to give lashes for crimes so caning Sinkie style is a nice epilogue to this case.