For the threat, Gabriel Leong Yew Choong, 28, was jailed for six
months.
THEY had broken up after just four months together, and Gabriel
Leong Yew Choong wanted his former girlfriend back.
For the threat, Gabriel Leong Yew Choong, 28, was jailed for six
months.
After they split in September 2002, he telephoned her, e-mailed her
and pestered her with text messages. She neither answered his calls
nor replied to his messages.
After her repeated rebuffs, Leong promised her a birthday gift she
would not forget.
In October that year, she received two e-mail messages from him,
with attachments: two pictures of her in the nude that she'd once
let him take after they'd had sex.
One was a shot of her, topless and smiling at the camera. The other
showed her putting her clothes back on.
The titles were innocuous - Happy 20th Birthday and Screensaver For
The Office. But his message was chilling.
Leong, now 28 and a diploma student in a private school, had told
the woman, now 22, that he would circulate the pictures to her
friends if she continued ignoring him.
Yesterday, he admitted sending her the threatening e-mail messages
on Oct 28 and 30, 2002, and was jailed for six months.
Deputy Public Prosector Daphne Chang told a district court that the
pair had met in May 2002 and broke up that September. Despite the
calls and messages, it was not until the alarming pictures that she
went to the police.
In his mitigation, Leong's lawyer, Mr David Rasif, told the court
that Leong was trying to contact her because he discovered after
they broke up that two watches his grandmother gave him were
gone.
But she didn't reply and in 'a fit of anger', he e-mailed the
pictures to her.
'He did not upload the pictures to any website and only the victim
has seen them,' said the lawyer, adding that Leong was
remorseful.
He could have been jailed up to seven years and fined.
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