#Jail prank call serial

READ: Man who has been prank calling police since 2000 sentenced to 3 years' jail

While doing so, he noticed a public payphone nearby and began making numerous nuisance calls to the 999 police hotline while drunk. He went to a supermarket nearby and bought nine more bottles of beer, which he went to a nearby void deck to drink. He immediately went to a coffee shop in Hougang to drink alcohol, downing more than 10 large bottles of beer from lunch time. The court heard that Pay was released from Changi Prison on Jun 6 this year after being incarcerated for similar offences.

Pay, who is unemployed, pleaded guilty to eight charges of making annoying phone calls to emergency telephone numbers, with another 24 charges taken into consideration. Sentencing him to three years of imprisonment, the court also ordered an additional enhanced jail term of 66 days for breaching his remission order.SINGAPORE: A recalcitrant prank caller who has been in and out of court since 1996 made 31 nuisance calls to the police on the day he was released from prison.įor that, 59-year-old Pay Kiaw Keng was sentenced to 21 months' jail on Tuesday (Dec 11). However, the judge told Singh that his alcohol problem was a result of learned behaviour and his offences committed while he was in a state of intoxication were very serious, as they affected an important public service. Singh, who was unrepresented, apologised and pleaded for a lighter sentence. 'His underlying problem is alcohol use disorder,' said Lim, adding that any nuisance calls made to the police deprive people in distress of timely police intervention.ĭistrict Judge Eddy Tham observed that Singh's 'main issue is that of drinking' and 'after drinking, the accused gets into all kinds of trouble'. Lim asked for a jail sentence of three years and nine months, noting that Singh reoffended while out on bail and breached his remission order, which makes him liable for an enhanced jail term. Singh has been reoffending since 2000, with the most recent conviction in 2016, when he was sentenced to two-year jail term, the prosecutor said. Three empty beer cans were also recovered from his possession, it said.ĭespite this, Singh made another 15 calls to the police, all in one day, later that month. The police traced Singh's phone call location and arrested him that day, according to media report. He knew this message to be false, Deputy Public Prosecutor Daphne Lim said. In one of his calls, he told the operator: 'You are stupid.' He also said: 'I put one dynamite to the immigration house.' On June 10, Singh called the police using a public phone at a void deck of an apartment block in Chai Chee housing estate. The latest incidents occurred over two days in June, with Singh making two calls on the first day and 15 on the second. Gurcharan Singh, a 61-year-old cleaner, usually made the '999' emergency calls after drinking alcohol, the court heard.

#Jail prank call serial

An Indian-origin Singaporean serial prank caller was sentenced to three years of imprisonment on Thursday for repeatedly making nuisance calls to the police, despite being jailed for the same offence previously.