Tag Archives: DRUGS

The ideas are hard to accept but he's right. People are still taking drugs despite knowing the risks. It means that our approach is useless, so it must change.

On the morning of Aug 9 last year, the man threw a plastic bottle at his daughter's face when she would not stop crying. He left the flat and was in a foul mood when he returned that evening as he had no money to buy drugs. He scolded his wife and startled their young daughter, who started to cry. Unable to pacify the baby, he then proceeded to forcibly shove the baby's head against a wall, knowing it to be likely that the baby would sustain grievous hurt. The back of her head hit the wall and she fell to the mattress below, and was quickly carried away by her mother. The man was carrying the baby at around 9 am the next day when he started to bite the child all over her left forearm and upper arm. The man also bit her ears at around 7pm that day. It was the wife's father who alerted the police about the abuse done by the man. Extensive injuries were noted all over the baby. Besides a fracture to the back of her skull, she also had multiple bruises and cuts to her face, torso and limbs.

The man had driven his vehicle into the lane, at the departure zone of Woodlands Checkpoint, at about 5 am. He damaged a metal fence and displaced a signboard, but no injuries were reported. The lorry was finally removed at about 10.50am. The lorry driver was later arrested for drug consumption, ICA have confirmed.

Indie rock band STRFKR, which hails from Oregon, USA, announced on its Twitter on Wednesday that the band would not be able to continue with its debut show here because the authorities had barred them from entry.

Suspecting the boy to be a hacker, Zaidi confronted the boy, who was himself high on methamphetamine, or Ice, at that time. Zaidi asked the boy to hand over his handphone, and the boy did as was told, as he was likely to be in a state of intoxication. Zaidi subsequently brought to boy back to his flat to "interrogate" him.

It was also reported that the suspect was sleeping in the corridors and staircase landing of the block for two years, before Roslan invited him to stay in his flat about six months ago. He had told his neighbours that he invited the man in as he pitied him.

In the latest twist to what has been, under all circumstances, a most unusual case, the Court of Appeal ('the Court') has held that its previous decision on case involving Nigerian national Ilechukwu must be reviewed.

In a twist of Shakespearean proportions, Mr Eugene Thuraisingam, the lawyer for death row inmate Ilechukwu, has used evidence produced by the Prosecution to argue for his client's acquittal. The Defence counsel made the case that the results of a psychiatric assessment conducted by one Dr Jaydip Sarkar from Institute of Mental Health (IMH), which was sought for by the Prosecution, exculpated the Defendant.

A vigil attended by family and friends of Prabagaran Srivijayan, a convicted Malaysian drug smuggler sentenced to hanging, was disrupted by Singapore Police Force officers yesterday night.

The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia calls on the Singaporean Government to halt the imminent execution of Malaysian national Prabagaran Srivijayan for a drugs related offence, and urges the Government to immediately instate a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.