Thief who preyed on elderly caught

A 33 yr old man believed to be involved in a series of snatch thefts against elderly victims in Hougang, Telok Blangah and Tampines housing estates was caught on Thursday morning.

Police arrested him at his flat in Block 467, Tampines Street 44 at about 6 am

On March 25 at 10 pm, the suspect snatched the handbag of a 77-year-old Chinese woman after entering the lift with her at Block 253, Hougang Avenue 3. The victim’s handbag contained cash, handphone and other valuables valued at about $300.

Preliminary investigations revealed that he was also involved in two other cases of snatch theft against elderly victims at Telok Blangah and Tampines Street 45 sometime in May. (story)

Elton John, Singapore, May 7

Sir Elton John loves Singapore so much he has requested a concert stop here for his latest Rocket Man Tour.

American concert organiser Live Nation’s senior vice-president for Asia, Ms Colleen Ironside, says: ‘As Elton John very much enjoys coming to Singapore, he asked if it was possible to arrange a show in Singapore en route to Australia for performances there.’

The English pop star last performed here in 1993 and 2001. The concert will be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on May 7. (story)

Monster sentenced to 26 yrs + 24 strokes

A 29 year old man who repeatedly raped his live-in fiancee’s daughter was finally caught out after he used his camera-phone to take video of himself molesting the girl. On Friday, the man, a vegetable packer who has previous convictions for sexual offences, was put behind bars for 26 years and ordered to be caned the maximum 24 strokes.

He cannot be named to protect the identity of the girl, now aged 11 and a primary six pupil.

The High Court heard that the man met the girl’s mother in 2004 when she was going through a divorce from her second husband.

Later that year, they got engaged and he moved in with her and her two children.

The girl was first raped in the first half of 2006, when she was nine.

She was sleeping in her room, running a fever, when he woke her and raped her.

She was too frightened to tell anyone about the assault.

Subsequently, he raped her four more times, between May 2006 and July 2007. (story)

Bird flu kills man in Vietnam

Bird flu has killed a man in northern Vietnam, marking the country’s first human case this year, health officials said Wednesday.The 32-year-old man from Tuyen Quang province, about 80 kilometres northwest of Hanoi, died last week, two days after being admitted to the national tropical disease hospital in Hanoi, said To Doan Hong of the provincial Preventive Medicine Centre.

Test results later came back positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus, he said. It was the country’s 48th death reported since the virus began raging across Asia in late 2003. (story)

Man arrested for indecent bikini exposure

Um, what? Some people have the strangest fetishes. I don’t even want to think of the “bits” hanging out. Eww. Gross. I bet he was all hairy too. YUCK! HAHAHA. Poor woman. Us men are not like that … mostly. Check my closet no pink bikinis … at least none that belong to me. AND I don’t wear them. I bet that guy is wishing he’d thrown out the “obscene” videos before the cops showed up. Move to the U.S. I’m sure he’d fit right in.

“A man who exposed himself by wearing a pink bikini was jailed a day and fined a total of $11,000 for insulting modesty and other offences. Tan Wen Zhong, 21, admitted to five charges, ranging from theft to outrage of modesty, between 2005 and this year.

He could not explain how he came to have those items. Police also found five video CDs containing four obscene films.” (story)