Is it even worth it? I am sure that he regretted that one minute and now has to spent the 14 years paying for it. Crime certainly does not pay.
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The New Paper
22 June 2008
Man gets jail, cane for raping drunk colleague
THE rape lasted a minute and he will pay for it with seven years of his life
Andre Yeo
THE rape lasted a minute and he will pay for it with seven years of his life. He will be caned for it too.
Foo Chirk Leong, 30, had raped his friend and former colleague in a hotel room on 1 Dec 2001.
Yesterday, in the Subordinate Courts, he was jailed seven years and given sixstrokes of the cane. In his mitigation, which was not read in court, his lawyer Gloria James wrote that Foo, who knew the victim from working in the same hotel, had assumed she liked him. She had often called him and they chatted for 20 to 30 minutes each time. On 30 Nov 2001, they went to their old workplace for drinks and both got drunk.
A few hours later, when he could not find her, he tried calling her handphone. Court documents revealed she had taken a taxi, but had dozed off after vomiting into a plastic bag. As the cabby could not get her address, he stopped a passing police car. As Sergeant Vincent Tan was trying to verify her identity, her handphone rang. It was Foo, who told Sergeant Tan he was her boyfriend. He was asked to pick her up at the Jurong Police Division.
In his mitigation, Foo said he had initially hesitated, but felt he should send her home as they had gone out together. When he picked her up in a taxi, he asked her for her address, but she was too drunk, so he told the cabby to take them to the nearest hotel, which was Hotel 81 Orchid at Lorong 8 Geylang.
In the hotel room, Foo tried to clean her up as she had vomited again. But he got aroused while undressing her and raped her. Court documents revealed he had raped her for a minute.
FIRST-TIME OFFENDER
Ms James urged the court to take into account that Foo was a first-time offender and was 24 at the time. He had also pleaded guilty. She said it was not a pre-meditated offence, but had happened when he had lost control of himself.
Ms James wrote that Foo had not spiked the victim's drink nor had he used violence against her. Foo also wrote a short letter of apology to his victim, which was included in his mitigation. His sentence was backdated to 17 Nov.
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Man gets jail, cane for rape 7 years ago
He escaped to Malaysia after crime in 2001
The Straits Times
21 June, 2008
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A NIGHT of heavy drinking back in 2001 left a 27-year-old woman so drunk, she hailed a cab and promptly fell asleep in it, without stating her exact destination. When she awoke the next morning, she found herself naked in bed in a Geylang hotel with her former colleague, with whom she had been drinking the night before.
A district court heard on Wednesday what happened in the intervening hours and closed the case by bundling the ex-colleague, Foo Chirk Leong, off to a seven-year jail term and six strokes of the cane for raping her on Dec 1, 2001.
He absconded to Malaysia after that and was arrested only last year. The court heard that when the taxi driver realised his passenger had dozed off, he called the police. It was while the police officer was going through the woman's belongings to verify her identity that Foo, then a 24-year-old bartender, called her cellphone. The police sergeant took the call and, believing Foo to be her boyfriend, asked him to pick her up from Jurong Police Division. Foo did so, and afterwards, took her in a cab to a hotel in Geylang, where he checked them into a room and raped her.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ferlin Jayatissa said the woman had asked Foo out for drinks the night before, and had left the pub without his knowledge when she became drunk. Foo's lawyer Ms Gloria James said her client realised he had committed a serious offence and pleaded for leniency. He could have been jailed up to 20 years and fined or caned.
THE rape lasted a minute and he will pay for it with seven years of his life
Andre Yeo
THE rape lasted a minute and he will pay for it with seven years of his life. He will be caned for it too.
Foo Chirk Leong, 30, had raped his friend and former colleague in a hotel room on 1 Dec 2001.
Yesterday, in the Subordinate Courts, he was jailed seven years and given sixstrokes of the cane. In his mitigation, which was not read in court, his lawyer Gloria James wrote that Foo, who knew the victim from working in the same hotel, had assumed she liked him. She had often called him and they chatted for 20 to 30 minutes each time. On 30 Nov 2001, they went to their old workplace for drinks and both got drunk.
A few hours later, when he could not find her, he tried calling her handphone. Court documents revealed she had taken a taxi, but had dozed off after vomiting into a plastic bag. As the cabby could not get her address, he stopped a passing police car. As Sergeant Vincent Tan was trying to verify her identity, her handphone rang. It was Foo, who told Sergeant Tan he was her boyfriend. He was asked to pick her up at the Jurong Police Division.
In his mitigation, Foo said he had initially hesitated, but felt he should send her home as they had gone out together. When he picked her up in a taxi, he asked her for her address, but she was too drunk, so he told the cabby to take them to the nearest hotel, which was Hotel 81 Orchid at Lorong 8 Geylang.
In the hotel room, Foo tried to clean her up as she had vomited again. But he got aroused while undressing her and raped her. Court documents revealed he had raped her for a minute.
FIRST-TIME OFFENDER
Ms James urged the court to take into account that Foo was a first-time offender and was 24 at the time. He had also pleaded guilty. She said it was not a pre-meditated offence, but had happened when he had lost control of himself.
Ms James wrote that Foo had not spiked the victim's drink nor had he used violence against her. Foo also wrote a short letter of apology to his victim, which was included in his mitigation. His sentence was backdated to 17 Nov.
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Man gets jail, cane for rape 7 years ago
He escaped to Malaysia after crime in 2001
The Straits Times
21 June, 2008
By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A NIGHT of heavy drinking back in 2001 left a 27-year-old woman so drunk, she hailed a cab and promptly fell asleep in it, without stating her exact destination. When she awoke the next morning, she found herself naked in bed in a Geylang hotel with her former colleague, with whom she had been drinking the night before.
A district court heard on Wednesday what happened in the intervening hours and closed the case by bundling the ex-colleague, Foo Chirk Leong, off to a seven-year jail term and six strokes of the cane for raping her on Dec 1, 2001.
He absconded to Malaysia after that and was arrested only last year. The court heard that when the taxi driver realised his passenger had dozed off, he called the police. It was while the police officer was going through the woman's belongings to verify her identity that Foo, then a 24-year-old bartender, called her cellphone. The police sergeant took the call and, believing Foo to be her boyfriend, asked him to pick her up from Jurong Police Division. Foo did so, and afterwards, took her in a cab to a hotel in Geylang, where he checked them into a room and raped her.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Ferlin Jayatissa said the woman had asked Foo out for drinks the night before, and had left the pub without his knowledge when she became drunk. Foo's lawyer Ms Gloria James said her client realised he had committed a serious offence and pleaded for leniency. He could have been jailed up to 20 years and fined or caned.
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I smell premature ejaculate.....a high price to pay i agree
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