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Monday, 13 February 2012 23:28

Minister Teo should explain handling of Suntec City assault case

  • Written by  Andrew Loh
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The Suntec City assault incident involving three foreign men is now making the rounds on the Internet after The New Paper reported the assault in 2011, followed by online portals later on.

What frustrates and disappoints the public, particularly, are two things:

1.    The police's silence, even to the victims of the assault, in providing updates on the case.

2.    The police's seeming disinterest in pursuing the case so that justice is meted out swiftly, and the victims can have closure to the matter. It took more than a year before the assailants were charged in court, and it has been 22 months since the night of the assault.

The Suntec City attack was a vicious one carried out by three foreigners — New Zealander Robert Stephen Dahlberg, Australian Nathan Robert Miller and Briton Robert James Springall — in the evening of April 2010.

So far, only Miller has been brought to justice, with a three weeks sentence in jail. Dahlberg, rather inexplicably, was allowed to leave Singapore in July last year, just about a month after he was charged in court.

Springall too was apparently allowed to leave Singapore in September last year.

Both men have since absconded, leaving the victims of the attack finding the whole process incredulous.

The above article was written by Andrew Loh for Yahoo Singapore.

Read the full article here.

 


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Andrew Loh

Andrew Loh

Andrew's passion are social and political issues. His writings have been reproduced in other publications, including the Australian Housing Journal in 2010. Andrew also writes weekly for Yahoo Singapore which nominated him as one of Singapore's most influential media persons in 2011 and cited him for having "pioneered a new form of journalism in Singapore - the kind that dared to speak truth to power."

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4 comments

  • Comment Link Concerned Citizen Friday, 17 February 2012 17:12 posted by Concerned Citizen

    Hi Andrew, hope you are reading this comment. Some food for thought regarding this ST article I came across today.

    http://www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_767442.html

    The Filipino PR here was jailed for 1-month for throwing punches at a cabby and the Filipino was put to trial within 6 months of the attack.

    There's just alot of questions that needs to be answered and I hope someone can pick up on this in Parliament.

    Compare the punishment which the Filipino received against the punishment which Miller received, just doesn't add up. Miller inflicted much more grevious harm on the victims and attempted to get away in a stolen taxi, but yet only received 3 weeks jail.

    Someone, anyone, please save this country from the inequities.

  • Comment Link fkingclub Tuesday, 14 February 2012 22:15 posted by fkingclub

    most cases of assaults are handle in the least importance manner for fatality is not e key factor.

    Its extremely common that Caucasians assault locals here and often fled during civil suit for assaulting people under influence of alcohol is consider a brawl and its not regarded as a criminal offence. i personally had witness several fights between Caucasians(mostly Australians and NZ) and locals in disco,pubs,beach parties. The cause is always with foreigners harassing local women.

    How about those hooligans(some are even teenagers or young men with family issues) that fight in a brawl? Section 55 given, why these damn foreigners are not given the due diligence of our laws made? for our law is made to control the poor and not the rich. Singapore system is getting from worst to hell-no system. totally disappointed with the culture here. As a Singapore - i am not proud of our failing culture.

  • Comment Link BA Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:08 posted by BA

    Let's see how the taichi will go. Very likely the minister will be completely silent and if the opposition MPs are silent as well, alot of people will pack their bags more than ever and again ministers will be happier than ever, will just import lots of newbies into Singapore, which is one of their favorite past-times, mind you.

  • Comment Link M Caugilia Monday, 13 February 2012 23:38 posted by M Caugilia

    LOL... The minister has better things to do than to care for any individual's interest and well-being - such as how to appear to be doing some "big-picture" things to justify his millions... Disgusting!

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