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Man jailed for bomb hoax
Singapore
Selina Lum
11 March 2005
Straits Times
English
(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
He wrote hate notes with bomb warning and handed them to SMRT employee saying he saw them being dropped by another.
MAK Hoy Meng, 29, went up to an SMRT employee and gave him two handwritten notes that declared there was a bomb at one of the stations.
The restaurant supervisor told Mr Yeow Meng Chai that he saw a man drop the notes and even described the fellow in detail.
But under questioning by the police, he admitted he had written them himself and there were no bombs.
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations to trying to hoax Mr Yeow about a bomb last month, and was jailed for 2 1/2 years.
He admitted that at the time he tried to fool Mr Yeow, he was disgruntled with the police and society in general, because he had been charged with theft and was out on bail.
The theft charge - stealing $50 from a restaurant - was taken into consideration during sentencing.
A district court heard that at about 8pm on Feb 4, Mak approached Mr Yeow at the Jurong East MRT station, and handed over notes which said, 'I WANT TO BOMB SINGAPORE People today OR 2moro I HATE All THE SINGAPORE People HATE!!!', and 'CAN you ALL FIND the BOMB IN BETWEEN 8 HR START for 2000PM GIVE you ALL the CLUE THE BOMB is A ONE of the MRT STN NEAR left side find it BUSTER'.
He described the man who dropped the notes in detail, down to the brand of the bag he was carrying. His story came apart when his description differed in later versions.
By then, police officers had searched extensively for the man. However, trains were not stopped.
District Judge Aedit Abdullah said that while the disruption caused was not as serious as that in previous instances, it called for a deterrent sentence.
The maximum punishment is five years' jail and a $100,000 fine.
Last April, more than 200 commuters were evacuated from a North-East Line MRT train and Singapore Armed Forces explosive experts were called in when an SBS Transit customer service officer left a box and note on the train with a threatening message.
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Selina Lum
11 March 2005
Straits Times
English
(c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
He wrote hate notes with bomb warning and handed them to SMRT employee saying he saw them being dropped by another.
MAK Hoy Meng, 29, went up to an SMRT employee and gave him two handwritten notes that declared there was a bomb at one of the stations.
The restaurant supervisor told Mr Yeow Meng Chai that he saw a man drop the notes and even described the fellow in detail.
But under questioning by the police, he admitted he had written them himself and there were no bombs.
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty under the United Nations (Anti-Terrorism Measures) Regulations to trying to hoax Mr Yeow about a bomb last month, and was jailed for 2 1/2 years.
He admitted that at the time he tried to fool Mr Yeow, he was disgruntled with the police and society in general, because he had been charged with theft and was out on bail.
The theft charge - stealing $50 from a restaurant - was taken into consideration during sentencing.
A district court heard that at about 8pm on Feb 4, Mak approached Mr Yeow at the Jurong East MRT station, and handed over notes which said, 'I WANT TO BOMB SINGAPORE People today OR 2moro I HATE All THE SINGAPORE People HATE!!!', and 'CAN you ALL FIND the BOMB IN BETWEEN 8 HR START for 2000PM GIVE you ALL the CLUE THE BOMB is A ONE of the MRT STN NEAR left side find it BUSTER'.
He described the man who dropped the notes in detail, down to the brand of the bag he was carrying. His story came apart when his description differed in later versions.
By then, police officers had searched extensively for the man. However, trains were not stopped.
District Judge Aedit Abdullah said that while the disruption caused was not as serious as that in previous instances, it called for a deterrent sentence.
The maximum punishment is five years' jail and a $100,000 fine.
Last April, more than 200 commuters were evacuated from a North-East Line MRT train and Singapore Armed Forces explosive experts were called in when an SBS Transit customer service officer left a box and note on the train with a threatening message.
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