Lawyer charged with paying underage girl for sex

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Lawyer charged with paying underage girl for sex
Posted: 29 June 2012 1139 hrs

SINGAPORE: A former deputy public prosecutor, who has gone into private practice, was charged on Friday with paying an underage girl for sex.

59-year-old Spencer Gwee Hak Theng was charged with one count of paying the 16-year-old girl for her sexual services.

Gwee, who runs Spencer Gwee & Co at Beach Road, allegedly paid the girl S$300 for sex at Four Chain View Hotel at Geylang on July 19 last year.

The prosecution called for Gwee's passport to be surrendered.

But Gwee objected, saying he needed to travel to Hong Kong and Malaysia for business.

Gwee's lawyer, Mr Lawrence Ang Boon Kong, told the court that Gwee was not a "flight risk" as he has assets in Singapore.

Gwee is out on a S$10,000 bail. He will be back in court on July 27.

If convicted, he could be jailed up to seven years and fined.

- CNA/ck

 

[X-Wing]

Former DPP claims trial

By Chai Hung Yin

The New Paper
Monday, Jul 30, 2012

A former deputy public prosecutor (DPP) and lawyer charged with having sex with an underage Vietnamese girl will be claiming trial. Spencer Gwee Hak Theng, 59, was charged last month with having sex with the girl, who was 16 at the time of the alleged offence.

He allegedly paid $300 for sexual services on July 19 last year at Four Chain View Hotel at 757, Geylang Road Lorong 39.

He is the last of 11 men who have been charged in relation to a vice syndicate operated by a couple in Geylang.

A disclosure conference was set on Sept 24 and his $10,000 bail has been extended.

If convicted, he can be jailed up to seven years or fined or both.

This article was first published in The New Paper.

 

[StarshipTroopers]

16-year-old Vietnamese prostitute lied about her age to 60-year-old lawyer client

Published on Feb 19, 2013

The 16-year-old Vietnamese prostitute in the centre of a vice syndicate, testified on Tuesday that she had lied to lawyer Spencer Gwee Hak Theng (pictured), about her age. -- ST FILE PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

By Lim Yan Liang

The 16-year-old Vietnamese prostitute in the centre of a vice syndicate, testified on Tuesday that she had lied to lawyer Spencer Gwee Hak Theng, about her age.

The court heard that she had told Gwee - who is charged with having paid sex with a minor - that she was 19 years-old when he asked for her age prior to intercourse.

Gwee, a former deputy public prosecutor, however, did not ask to see her passport, and later paid her $300 for the encounter.

The minor, who was 16 at the time of the offence, cannot be identified due to a gag order.

Get a copy of The Straits Times for the full story.

 

[lianbeng]

lianbeng sentenced this lao cheekopek to do it to his own daughter lah!

 

[Hudson]

Moral of the story - do not try too young a girl.

Must check DOB before doing. MILF is a better bet.

 

[HyoRu]

Moral of the story - do not try too young a girl.

Must check DOB before doing. MILF is a better bet.

Sometimes dob maybe fake too. Thousands of ways to bluff their way thru.

 

[PWNED]

Gwee, charged with having paid sex with underage girl has case to answer: Judge

Published on May 28, 2013

Spencer Gwee Hak Theng (second from left), former deputy public prosecutor, leaves the Subordinate Courts on Feb 19, 2013, with his lawyer Subhas Anandan (left). Gwee, charged with having paid sex with a minor, took the stand on Tuesday morning. -- ST FILE PHOTO: NG SOR LUAN

By Lim Yanliang

Former deputy public prosecutor Spencer Gwee Hak Theng, charged with having paid sex with a minor, took the stand on Tuesday morning.

This after District Judge Toh Yung Cheong said that the prosecution had proven that Gwee had a prima facie case to answer to.

The 60-year-old is accused of paying an underaged Vietnamese prostitute $300 for sex in July 2011 at Four Chain View hotel in Geylang.

His lawyer, Subhas Anandan, had earlier submitted to the court that Gwee had no case to answer, as the state had failed to prove that the girl was below 18 at the time she met Gwee. This was because the police officer who cracked the vice syndicate she was working for failed to seize her IC - which she then claimed she lost - and the court had to rely on whatever she said her age was.

Get the full story from The Straits Times.

 

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Underage girl in vice case 'dishonest'

Spencer Gwee Hak Theng

By Lim Yan Liang
The Straits Times
Friday, Feb 22, 2013

SINGAPORE - On the first day of the trial of a former deputy public prosecutor charged with having paid sex on July 19, 2011 with a minor, the defence challenged the testimony and credibility of two witnesses.

During cross-examination on Tuesday, Mr Subhas Anandan argued that the investigation against Spencer Gwee Hak Theng, 60 - as carried out by the first witness, Inspector Yeo Kok Leong of the Specialised Crimes Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department - was "biased" and "completely malicious".

Mr Anandan questioned why Inspector Yeo, 40, did not record detailed information during his investigations, as required by the Criminal Procedure Code, and could not recall correctly when he first called the accused to a police station.

He also alleged that the police officer tried to bully Gwee into coming to the station even though his client was sick and had a medical certificate.

"I am suggesting to you that from the beginning to the end of the investigation, you were very hostile to the accused, and you were bent on charging him," said Mr Anandan.

However, it was revealed during re-examination that Gwee had refused to hand over his cellphone for forensic examination, and also turned down Inspector Yeo's suggestion to let digital forensics experts examine his phone in his presence, for text messages pertinent to the case.

Inspector Yeo also told Deputy Public Prosecutor Terence Chua that before the investigations he did not know Gwee, and did not bear him any grudges.

The then 16-year-old Vietnamese prostitute, whom Gwee allegedly paid for sex, then took the stand and admitted she had lied to Gwee that she was 19. However, she said, Gwee never asked to check her passport.

But Mr Anandan accused the girl of consistently being dishonest, and asked if she could be mistaken about Gwee being her customer. She said she was sure.

The girl - who cannot be named because of a gag order - said she met Gwee on July 17, 2011, when she sat with him at the V2 pub in Geylang. The next day, she saw Gwee at the pub again, and he gave her $40 for her companionship the previous night.

But when she told the court that Gwee spoke to her in Vietnamese, and asked for her name and number in Vietnamese, Mr Anandan said no such conversation could have happened.

Turning to Gwee, he asked: "Do you speak Vietnamese?"

To which Gwee replied sarcastically from the dock, with his eyebrows raised: "No, Russian."

The girl also said that after they had sex, Gwee paid her from his car, a four-door sedan that was either white or grey.

But the defence pointed out that Gwee drove a two-door BMW that was dark grey.

 

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Victim 'spoon-fed' evidence: Former DPP on trial for having paid sex with minor

The Straits Times
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

SINGAPORE - Former deputy public prosecutor who has been charged for having paid sex with an underaged prostitute, Spencer Gwee, charged that the investigation officer had "spoon-fed" the then-16-year-old Vietnamese girl facts gleaned from him over two "general interviews" and that evidence was then put together in a "re-construction".

Get the full story from The Straits Times.

Underage girl in vice case 'dishonest'

SINGAPORE - On the first day of the trial of a former deputy public prosecutor charged with having paid sex on July 19, 2011 with a minor, the defence challenged the testimony and credibility of two witnesses.

During cross-examination on Tuesday, Mr Subhas Anandan argued that the investigation against Spencer Gwee Hak Theng, 60 - as carried out by the first witness, Inspector Yeo Kok Leong of the Specialised Crimes Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department - was "biased" and "completely malicious".

Mr Anandan questioned why Inspector Yeo, 40, did not record detailed information during his investigations, as required by the Criminal Procedure Code, and could not recall correctly when he first called the accused to a police station.

He also alleged that the police officer tried to bully Gwee into coming to the station even though his client was sick and had a medical certificate.

"I am suggesting to you that from the beginning to the end of the investigation, you were very hostile to the accused, and you were bent on charging him," said Mr Anandan.

However, it was revealed during re-examination that Gwee had refused to hand over his cellphone for forensic examination, and also turned down Inspector Yeo's suggestion to let digital forensics experts examine his phone in his presence, for text messages pertinent to the case.

Inspector Yeo also told Deputy Public Prosecutor Terence Chua that before the investigations he did not know Gwee, and did not bear him any grudges.

The then 16-year-old Vietnamese prostitute, whom Gwee allegedly paid for sex, then took the stand and admitted she had lied to Gwee that she was 19. However, she said, Gwee never asked to check her passport.

 

[lianbeng]

Underage girl in vice case 'dishonest'

"no rotan leh! hehe..."