SINGAPORE: The prosecution is seeking two years' jail for a former Head of Department for English at Woodgrove Secondary School who was found guilty of misappropriating about S$40,000 that was collected from students for learning materials., after contesting two counts of criminal breach of trust as a public servant in a trial where all 20 teachers in the department testified.After hearing submissions from both sides, the judge adjourned sentencing to next month.
The offences were discovered when the school's lower-secondary head for English asked the bookshop seller for a copy of the invoices and realised that she had been told to hand them only to Maslinda. She later found discrepancies between the amounts collected by the teachers and the amounts in the invoices.Maslinda was investigated by officers from the Ministry of Education and the police. She admitted in police statements to spending the money but said it was not on lavish items.
Ms Chew replied that there was"no proof" that the money had been spent on those items, adding that Maslinda has"shown no remorse throughout the conduct of this trial and in her mitigation".