Thursday, 22 Oct 2020 11:11 PM MYT
A month later, he robbed a 17-year-old student of his mobile phone on a public bus after threatening the teenager with a knife. He pleaded guilty to three charges of robbery, breaching a personal protection order and ill-treating an animal. The pair then went to a nearby automated teller machine where the teen withdrew S$500, which was his withdrawal limit.
Wong eventually sold the phone for S$720 and gave the secondhand phone shop assistant a false name, identity number and address to avoid being traced.DPP Ling said that the teen was a vulnerable victim and the phone was “probably the most valuable item in his possession”.The prosecution could have sought corrective training but decided not to, the prosecutor added.