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
why sent to IMH?