A MALAYSIAN burglar - who targeted his former workplace and got
away with $2 - was sentenced to two years' jail yesterday.
Ansar Anwar (above) was handed the minimum punishment under the
law after he had pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft by night
at a Sakae Sushi restaurant here.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Raja Mohan said the 24-year-old used
to work at the Bugis Junction eatery as a cleaner from 2007 to
2009.
On June 26 this year, he arrived in Singapore to look for a new
job and to borrow money from a friend, but he neither found work
nor his friend.
The father of two then decided to break into the restaurant to
steal.
The next day, close to midnight, he forced open the rear door of
the premises, with the help of an accomplice. He later made off
with the cash register.
-- ST