SINGAPORE: He molested a 17-year-old girl in a lift outside her home and later assaulted her family members who came to her rescue when they heard her screams. For this, Hamzah Hambali will now spend 39 months behind bars and receive six strokes of the cane.
The 26-year-old waiter had entered a lift of an apartment block with the teenager who was on her way home at around 11.00pm on January 23.
The court heard that he grabbed her just as she was about to get out of the lift when it reached her floor. After pinning her down to the floor, Hamzah molested the girl, who screamed loudly.
When they heard her cries, the girl's mother and 16-year-old sister, who were at home, rushed towards the lift and found the teenager on the ground. The 42-year-old mother pulled her daughter up and the teenager retreated to a corner of the lift landing, crying.
The mother confronted Hamzah who was still in the lift, and demanded to know what he had done to her daughter. Instead of answering her, he rushed out of the lift and slapped her twice on the face. He then punched the woman's other daughter, who was standing behind her mother, on the jaw, before he fled the scene.
Hamzah has been in and out of court since 1999. In 2004, he was jailed for three months and given three strokes of the cane for vandalism.
Two years later, he was convicted of offences including housebreaking and was sentenced to five years' jail.
Source: Channelnewsasia
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