Jailed: Man who got drunk and called cops 31 times on day of prison release
A man who was released from Changi Prison after serving time for numerous crimes – including making harassing calls to emergency services – called the police hotline 31 times later the same day.
At the State Courts on Tuesday (11 December), Pay Kiaw Keng, 59, was jailed for a total of 21 months, having pleaded guilty to eight out of 32 charges – one count of disorderly behaviour and 31 of making harassing calls to emergency telephone numbers.
On 6 June, after his release from jail, Pay immediately went to a coffee shop in Hougang Street 91 at noon to drink. He drank more than 10 large bottles of beer of different brands there for a few hours.
Pay then bought 9 large bottles of beer from a supermarket nearby and went to a void deck in the area to continue drinking.
He went to a public payphone and made numerous nuisance calls to the police hotline, muttering incoherently while he was drunk.
Pay then went to his brother’s home for a while before going out to buy more beer. Later, just before 11pm, he went to the 7th floor corridor of his brother’s block and started to make a lot of noise. His brother, who had locked him out because he was irritated with Pay, called the police.
Two policemen saw Pay behaving in a disorderly manner, smashing various items along the corridor. Pay kept shouting and screaming, and claimed that his brother had sold his birth certificate.
The officers arrested Pay, who had been released early from prison under the conditional remission scheme.
As Pay had breached the conditions of his remission, he had to serve the remaining duration of his previous prison sentence – which would have run for another 142 days, from 6 June to 25 October.
Pay, who has had more than 10 sets of convictions for making nuisance calls or sending false messages, was jailed for 14 months last year for the same offences.
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