Ex-public servant jailed 6 months for stalking girlfriend
A district judge found the officer guilty and jailed him for six months. (Yahoo file photo)
A former public servant was jailed six months on Wednesday (29 June) for unlawfully stalking his girlfriend.
Adrian Goh Guan Kiong, 38, is said to have done so by engaging in acts to harass and humiliate the 25-year-old woman.
According to media reports, the married man got to know the woman at the end of 2011 and they were involved in a relationship shortly after. The relationship continued after the woman started to work in a government department.
Goh had taken nude pictures of the woman with her consent but promised not to circulate them.
However, their relationship soured over the woman’s close relationship with several male colleagues, which led to the couple quarreling regularly.
His anger with the woman increased after he found out that she was going to Malaysia with a male colleague.
On 31 July 2015, Goh was having lunch with the woman at Causeway Point and she had passed her mobile phone to him. Goh then excused himself and went to a toilet.
Goh transferred the nude photos he had taken to the woman’s phone and sent four images to her work chat group on WhatsApp. He deleted the images from her phone after transferring them.
He followed up with messages to the chat group, saying that the images were sent to the wrong group, and later deleted the messages. Goh went back to his girlfriend and returned the phone to her.
The woman discovered about the pictures and messages and confronted Goh, who denied doing it.
Goh also created a fake email account and emailed the woman’s superior in August last year, alleging that she and a colleague had engaged in sex while at work, even though he was aware that there was no such relationship.
Knowing that the woman’s father was a staunch Christian, Goh posted a letter to him to say that she was engaging in pre-marital sex with two men.
The victim then made a police report on 3 August last year.
Pleading for leniency, Goh said in his mitigation letter that he was sorry and what he did was totally out of character.
Goh was the second person ever to be convicted of unlawful stalking under the Protection of Harassment Act. A 26-year-old man was sentenced on 17 June to 12 months in jail for a similar offence.
The maximum penalty for stalking is a $5,000 fine and 12 months’ jail.
