Yap Seng Gim, 45, was given eight months' jail on Wednesday Jun 30 for his crimes. He pleaded guilty to three counts of insulting a woman's modesty, with another three charges taken into consideration. According to his lawyer, Yap lost his wife in a traffic accident in while they were trying to work through a rocky patch in their marriage. Six years later, his father died of cancer. This argument did not cut ice with the judge, who pointed out that Yap remarried his current wife in

The year-old Singaporean was sentenced on Thursday June 3 to 16 weeks' jail after he pleaded guilty to two voyeurism charges. He stood behind the teenager as they were going up an escalator and used his mobile phone to record an upskirt video. A passer-by saw him committing the offence, but station manager Ahmad Ghuzali Rashid, 33, was alerted about the incident only the next morning.

SINGAPORE - There have been "too many" upskirt cases and it is important to keep sending a message that this sort of behaviour will be met with a sufficiently deterrent sentence, said a district judge, as he jailed a man 24 weeks on Thursday Sept 28 for taking such videos of strangers and a colleague. This is a menace especially in crowded Singapore where women have to take MRT and forced to stand cheek by jowl," he said. He found it "disturbing" that despite sentences that have been given and media reports of these cases, these cases continue to come to court. Teo, 40, was a senior bank officer when he committed 62 charges of insulting the modesty of mostly unknown females at places such as NTUC FairPrice supermarkets, Watsons pharmacies, and the MRT, between January and July He admitted to 17 charges of insulting modesty on Thursday with 45 others taken into consideration in sentencing.