Man who held sex-and-drug party
jailed
By KHUSHWANT SINGH
Tommy Lim Yong Thong, 30 was sentenced to 5½ years in
jail and five strokes of the cane yesterday.
A VOCAL instructor who is HIV-positive organised a sex-and-drug
party and also sold methamphetamine on the side to cover the cost
of treatment for his condition.
Tommy Lim Yong Thong's days of partying and pushing
drugs are now over. He was sentenced yesterday to 5½ years in jail
and five strokes of cane after pleading guilty to trafficking and
consuming drugs, and planning a sex-and-drug party.
The 30-year-old was arrested with two other men by
officers of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) at 1pm on May
26.
Lim, who worked at a music school, was then with
Diego Mark Jason Solares, 29, and De Tomas Camerino Efren Jr, 33,
both Philippine nationals, in a room at the Furama Riverfront
Hotel.
More than 40g of methamphetamine, or "Ice", was
found in the room.
Later that day, CNB officers returned to the hotel
to raid the room of Coert Isaac Stanley Parree, 42, and found Ice
and an improvised pipe. The Dutch national was then a flight
attendant with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Investigations then revealed that Parree had sent
Lim a text message on May 22 that he was in the Furama Riverfront
Hotel. Lim agreed to orgainise a "session", which referred to a
party involving sex and drugs.
The next day, he booked a room at the hotel and
invited Solares and Efren.
Lim admitted to bringing the Ice and giving it for
free to the two Filipinos, with whom he had sex. He also admitted
to selling the drug to his clients outside the hotel.
He bought it in batches of 25g from a man he knew
only as Mike, paying about $130 a gram. He then sold each gram for
$320.
Defence counsel Josephine Chee said her client's
medical condition had deteriorated and that he was "very weak".
District Judge Chay Yuen Fatt said the prison
doctor would determine if Lim can be caned.
The jail term was backdated to May 28, when he was
first charged in court and remanded.
Solares, who came here as a tourist; Efren, who
works as an insurance agent here; and Parree had been dealt with
earlier.
Top of the news, The Straits Times, Saturday, December 28 2013,
Pg A10
