Gov still talks about rule of law after Richard Yong?

• robertteh

  23 Jun 07, 14:06

  [quote="We Sue Men"][size=18]
  June 21, 2007
  
  Ex-steward cleared of molestation charges
  
  A FORMER flight steward was cleared on Tuesday of two counts of
  molesting a woman colleague after the court allowed the matter to
  be compounded.
  
  Mr Francis Gerard Han Khai Meng, 34, now an assistant director with the
  People's Association (Now I know what people meant when they say,
  " I am making a 'strategic career move' "...), was charged in March this
  year with two counts of outraging the modesty of the 24-year-old woman
  on board a Singapore Airlines flight on April 26, 2004.
  
  On both counts, he was said to have grabbed her right hand and placed
  it on his private part. He had also earlier been accused of insulting her
  modesty twice that day. It is not known why he was charged only this
  year.
  
  His case was originally fixed for a three-day hearing before District Judge
  Roy Neighbour.
  
  Yesterday, Assistant Public Prosecutor Simran Toor told the court that the
  alleged victim and the accused had agreed on terms for composition of the
  two molestation charges, and the prosecution had no objection.
  
  As part of the settlement, Mr Han gave $10,000 to the victim as
  compensation, apologised to her in open court, and will publish an apology
  in The Straits Times. He was given a warning on the two charges of insult
  of modesty.
  
  Mr Han was acquitted of these charges after the prosecutor withdrew
  them. The alleged victim, who was in court yesterday, declined comment.
  
  Outraging of modesty, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation
  are charges that can be compounded. Composition is the same as an
  acquittal. The alleged victim and prosecution must agree to this but the
  judge has the final say. [/size]
  
  This Han Khai Meng was a Returning Officer in GE2006.
  
  http://www.elections.gov.sg/gazette/20060420f.pdf
  
  So, I think he must have some very good connections.
  May be, he is one of the PAP inner circle people?
  Who really knows?
  
  Does BigCannonKing's MP knows? Good to have friend, hah?[/quote]
  
  Earlier, Phey Yew Kok slipped the dragnet of the law. Then came some influential pianist and high-profile drug offender. Lately NKF Richard Yong.
  
  It looks like the high-profile offenders can have special corridor to slip off because they are well connected. The ministers still want the world to believe their policy to ban public rallies or free speeches spoken in the course of electioneering is for maintenance of law and order or rule of law as publicized to the whole world in the tiff with peaceful WTO demonstrators.
  
  If this is not governing by justification and hypocrisy then what is?
• dragg

  23 Jun 07, 14:20

  molest can be settled out of court?
  
  
• Atobe

  23 Jun 07, 14:45

  Connections ???
  
  The People's Association is part of the Government, it is a statutory board with the Chairman being the PM himself.
  
  This is a very unusual case that a criminal offence can be ''privately compounded'' in this case, while NKF's Durai conviction of cheating cannot be compounded with a fine, but for justice to be executed with a custodial sentence.
  
  While so much was spent to trace the movement of Francis Seow across the USA - for no other purpose except to discredit him - not a single cent, or an iota of effort, was expended to trace Phey Yew Kok for his role in the dubious massive expenditures during the construction of the Big Splash along the ECP.
  
  In the process, the testimony from this dubious character in Phey Yew Kok led to the conviction of a young Tan Wah Piow, who was then the President of the NUS Students' Union, and had led the students in assisting some industrial workers in their dispute against their trade union headed by Phey.
  
  Is there any rule of law, when justice is given to the privileged - who can afford justice ''the minutes charged by the judiciary and its facilities used'', while the underclassed can only hope for their cause to be heard ?
  
  
  
• googoomuck

  23 Jun 07, 17:14

  Wonder if the pervert Eng Wah Wooh was the same Eng Wah Wooh , SingaporeÂ’s UN representive in 1996.
  
  A man was yesterday convicted of insulting the modesty of a woman doctor by insisting that she look at his semen while in her consultation room. Eng Wah Wooh, 43, was S$2000 and jailed for one day. (Straits Times 14 Sep 2003 )
  
  Second Committee - 3 - Press Release GA/EF/2726 8th Meeting (AM) 18 October 1996
  ENG WAH WOOH (Singapore) said a four-point agenda had evolved for the December meeting of the World Trade Organization to be held in his country: a review of the implementation of the Uruguay Round and addressing problems encountered in its implementation; a review of the built-in agenda of the Uruguay Round agreements with a view to starting a preparatory process for implementation; further liberalization initiatives; and finally, how emerging new issues could be addressed. There was consensus on the first two items on the agenda, but less on the last two. The built-in agenda of the Uruguay Round agreements constituted the main framework for the future work programme.