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A 55-year-old man, who was accused of sexually assaulting his stepson when the younger man was between eight and 17 years old, was yesterday acquitted of 13 charges involving various sexual offences.
But he was convicted of two other charges, for stalking his stepson s girlfriend and for criminal intimidation by pointing a chopper at his wife and threatening to kill his stepson.
The man, a former supermarket storekeeper, was sentenced to a year s jail on these two charges. The jail term was backdated to Dec 3, 2018, when he was remanded in custody.
In clearing the man of the sexual offences allegedly committed between 2007 and 2015, High Court Judge Chua Lee Ming listed numerous and extensive inconsistencies in the stepson s account.
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The High Court has dismissed a civil suit against the Attorney-General, a deputy attorney- general and five prosecutors by a Malaysian drug runner who was spared the death penalty last year.
Justice Chua Lee Ming granted the defendants application to strike out Gobi Avedian s suit last Thursday, saying his claim was unsustainable.
The defendants are the office of the Attorney-General, current Attorney-General Lucien Wong, deputy attorney-general Hri Kumar Nair, deputy chief prosecutor Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir, and prosecutors Tan Zhongshan, Nicholas Wuan, Chin Jincheng and Chong Kee En.
Gobi, through his then lawyer M. Ravi, had sued the defendants and deputy attorney-general Lionel Yee in November last year. The suit against Mr Yee was later dropped.