WAS it intentional or not?
Two years ago, Patrick Loo Shun Wen reached across the mattress
where his girlfriend and her friend were sleeping and touched the
latter's breast.
The 27-year-old sales executive later pleaded guilty to molest
and was sentenced to six months jail.
But on Tuesday, during Loo's appeal hearing, a High Court judge
questioned whether he really intended to molest the woman, then 18,
at all.
In the end, Justice V. K. Rajah set aside the jail term and
fined Loo $1,000 instead, with the judge describing it as a bizarre
case.
'Despite the fact that you have pleaded guilty, it's unclear to
me what had actually taken place because you were in bed with your
girlfriend with whom you wanted to get intimate with,' said Justice
Rajah.
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