A 35-year repeat offender, Eswaran Selvarajoo, who had only been released from prison a year ago, was sentenced to 12 days and four days’ imprisonment for multiple offences for outrage of modesty, theft and breaching his Prisons remission order.
Here are some brief, available facts on the case:
- He pleaded guilty to 3 charges. He had previous convictions for offences including drug offences and theft.
- He was sentenced to 4 weeks’ imprisonment for outrage of modesty choffencearge, 8 weeks’ imprisonment for the theft offence and 4 days’ imprisonment for breaching his remission order. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively.
- One day after he had just been released from Prison (in relation to an 8 week imprisonment term for using criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging his duty, and for threatening a public officer), he molested a woman near West Mall shopping centre in Bukit Batok Central Link.
- A few days later, the stole 2 cans of beer valued at $7.60 from a FairPrice supermarket at Block 280 in Bukit Batok East Avenue 3.
More information on the case may be found here.