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3 molested drunk student
By Khushwant Singh
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_599258.html
SHE knew one of them and left her friends to join the three men for drinks at Boat Quay sometime after midnight three years ago.
When the pub closed, the 17-year-old student accompanied them to Dozo Restaurant at Valley Point Shopping Centre. The Japanese food outlet was closed but as its manager then, Eric Wong Meng Cheong, had the keys.
During the 20-day trial that ended in October, a district court heard that she got drunk there and Wong, 33, touched her private parts while Gregory Goh Boon Hong, 29, and Yue Waita, 30, put their hands under her clothes and touched her breast.
On Thursday, Wong was sentenced to 15 months in jail and six strokes of the cane. The other two were jailed for 10 months with three strokes of the cane.
Goh's lawyer Edmond Pereira told reporters that all are appealing against conviction and sentence. Wong's lawyer is Mr Wee Pan Lee while Yue was unrepresented.
The woman knew Goh as he was the assistant manager at a restaurant she visited. Yue was a management trainee there.
On Nov 24, 2007, she ran into Goh, Yue and Wong while clubbing. She joined them in a drinking game where the loser had to finish his or her glass. At Dozo, she grew increasingly unsteady and vomited. The men then molested her.
The trio admitted being with her at Dozo but said that they merely carried her after she became too unsteady.
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By Khushwant Singh
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_599258.html
SHE knew one of them and left her friends to join the three men for drinks at Boat Quay sometime after midnight three years ago.
When the pub closed, the 17-year-old student accompanied them to Dozo Restaurant at Valley Point Shopping Centre. The Japanese food outlet was closed but as its manager then, Eric Wong Meng Cheong, had the keys.
During the 20-day trial that ended in October, a district court heard that she got drunk there and Wong, 33, touched her private parts while Gregory Goh Boon Hong, 29, and Yue Waita, 30, put their hands under her clothes and touched her breast.
On Thursday, Wong was sentenced to 15 months in jail and six strokes of the cane. The other two were jailed for 10 months with three strokes of the cane.
Goh's lawyer Edmond Pereira told reporters that all are appealing against conviction and sentence. Wong's lawyer is Mr Wee Pan Lee while Yue was unrepresented.
The woman knew Goh as he was the assistant manager at a restaurant she visited. Yue was a management trainee there.
On Nov 24, 2007, she ran into Goh, Yue and Wong while clubbing. She joined them in a drinking game where the loser had to finish his or her glass. At Dozo, she grew increasingly unsteady and vomited. The men then molested her.
The trio admitted being with her at Dozo but said that they merely carried her after she became too unsteady.
[email protected].
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_509289.html
Apr 1, 2010
Mark Chow fined $6,000
By Elena Chong
A FORMER television actor and model agency owner was fined $6,000 on Thursday for molesting a former pub operations manager three years ago.
Mark Chow Yee Sze, 30, a 1994 Mr Teenage Singapore, had been found guilty earlier of touching the then 25-year-old woman all over, including her breast, while she was resting in the office of the downtown pub on Jan 10, 2007.
The woman was unwell and had taken some medication before she reported for work at the pub on the evening of Jan 9 that year. Subsequently, she went to her office to rest.
Chow was captured on the pub's CCTV doing various things to the woman, such as tickling her palm, stroking her cheek and patting her butt, while she was lying on the sofa. In his defence, he denied molesting her and told the court that he was merely trying to wake her up.
District Judge Sarjit Singh agreed with defence counsel Subhas Anandan that the touch of the chest was a fleeting one, and a stiff fine would do.
Chow still has four molestation charges involving one woman and three criminal intimidation charges, which will be mentioned in the same court on April 21. He could have been jailed for up to two years or fined or caned or received any two such punishments for the offence.
