Posts tagged: crime
publichouse.sg:
We have lost faith in the system.
That’s how Mr Laurence Wong and Mr Paul Liew described their feelings about the way the police have handled the assault case which they were involved in.
Remember the US SEC’s indifference when a member of the public raised concerns over Madoff’s ponzi scheme for over 10 years?
Keivin Liwan Wai Yin was 19 when he had sex with the 15-year-old girl at his home in Hougang between June 1 and Oct 31, 2009.
The offence came to light when the victim reported to the police in February 2010 after she was found to be pregnant. She was admitted to hospital and had a miscarriage.
Sounds typical… but here comes the shocker:
A DNA profiling done showed that Liwan was not the biological father of the foetus.
Does that mean that the girl had multiple sexual partners? Then, why only this NSF got convicted?
The prosecution’s case against Roslan was based on the testimonies of three other men who had been arrested on the day of the crime. After these men were interrogated, Roslan was arrested on 18 July 2008, more than a month later.
Apart from the testimonies, there was no concrete evidence against Roslan. The phone number he allegedly used to arrange the drug deal was not registered to him. None of the CNB officers who had been monitoring the vehicles used could give evidence that Roslan had been there. Roslan had an alibi that his mother and step-brother supported.
Despite all this, he was still found guilty and sentenced to death. His clemency petition was submitted on 28 June 2011.
With so many troubling points of concern in Roslan’s case, can we really be sure that he is guilty? Are we not in danger of hanging a man who might really be innocent? And if we do hang a man who has been wronged, how will we ever make reparations to his heartbroken family and friends? How will we ever bring Roslan back?
Can I ever trust the legal system to be thorough and not kill innocent lives due to incompetence or technicalities?
The offences he committed were only parking ones. But when he failed to pay the fines and didn’t turn up in court after several summonses were sent to him, a warrant of arrest was issued against him.
More than 30 police officers, several sniffer dogs, five police cars and four red Special Operations Command riot vehicles were activated to search for the man, according to Shin Min Daily News.
That’s quite a lot of manpower deployed for a really trivial suspect. How about they actually work on the TPL case which is still in progress?
There’s a difference between not enough powers for police and not enough police presence. Don’t confusing the two or it’ll be fixing non-issues.
Can you spot the similarities between the teens charged in the article?
