Man on false e-mail charge

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Sep 17, 2010
Man on false e-mail charge

By Elena Chong

A 33-YEAR-OLD man was charged in court on Friday with sending a false message to the director of Criminal Investigation Department and two counts of insulting the modesty of a woman. David Arthur, who is Chinese, allegedly used another person's user-id to e-mail Senior Assistant Commissioner Ng Boon Gay of the CID and blind carbon copied to 35 other officers on Oct 13 last year.

Among other things, he challenged the police to arrest him and put him into prison. He is also said to have used four-letter words and claimed he had raped a girl and that the police could not catch him. In the other two charges, he is accused of insulting the modesty of a 31-year-old woman by sending her vulgar SMSes on Jan 23 at about 3.30am and 9.30am.

If convicted under the Telecommunications Act, he can be fined up to $10,000 or jailed for up to three years or both. For insulting modesty of a woman, the maximum penalty is a year's jail and a fine. David was remanded for psychiatric assessment. His next court date is Oct 1.

 

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Man jailed for sending false info, lewd SMS


Man jailed for sending false info, lewd SMS
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 09 November 2010 1439 hrs
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SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old man was on Tuesday jailed for a month for sending false information via e-mail to the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department and texting a lewd message to a woman's mobile phone.

David Arthur, who is unemployed, sent the e-mail to Senior Assistant Commissioner Ng Boon Gay on October 13 last year.

He had signed in with another man's name, admitting that he had supposedly committed rape and taunted the police by saying they would not be able to catch him.

He also copied the same e-mail to 34 other officers from the Singapore Police Force between 1pm and 2pm that day.

The court heard that he had sent it out as he wanted to sabotage the man whom he had named in the so-called confession.

Arthur had earlier visited the man, who is the sales director of an investment firm, for a job interview on October 8, 2009.

He later felt that the man was arrogant during the meeting and unfit to be a director at the company.

Arthur, who used to be a temporary staff member at the Singapore Business Federation, then made his way to his work place during lunch hour to send the e-mail.

The slim, fair-complexioned man also admitted he had sent an obscene text message to a 31-year-old woman.

He had been to her company for a job interview in June 2009. But they had found his behaviour to be abnormal and the interview was terminated.

The marketing manager received the message while she was in a flat in the River Valley area at around 9.30am on January 23.

For sending the false information, Arthur could have been jailed up to three years, fined up to S$10,000 or both.

For insulting the woman's modesty, he could have been jailed up to a year and fined.

-CNA/wk