by Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 22 September 2010 1420 hrs
SINGAPORE: A 36-year-old man has been charged with
committing an act of vandalism by cutting a state flag and two
Youth Olympic Games flags on April 20, 2007.
Lim Keng Choon allegedly vandalised the items, belonging to the
Town Council at the third floor of Block 202, Compassvale Road at
around 8.30am that day.
Lim will be remanded at the Institute of Mental Health for a
psychiatric evaluation.
He will be back in court on October 6.
If found guilty of vandalism, Lim can be fined a maximum of S$2,000
or jailed up to three years and receive at least three strokes of
the cane.
-CNA/wk