SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man who despatched slices of pork together with letters to seven mosques was sentenced to fifteen months of jail on Monday (Could 11). He had additionally included particulars regarding a girl whom he held accountable for the non-renewal of his work contract.
Sixty-two-year-old Invoice Tan Keng Hwee pleaded responsible to 3 counts of wounding non secular emotions below the Upkeep of Spiritual Concord Act, in addition to to at least one rely of harassment below the Safety from Harassment Act. 5 extra prices had been thought of for his sentencing.
For knowingly wounding non secular emotions, Tan might have confronted a most jail sentence of 5 years, been made to pay a high quality, or each. For the cost of harassment, in the meantime, he might have been jailed for so long as six months, been fined a most of S$5,000, or each.
The backstory
In December 2024, Tan was employed as an operations assist officer, however by the next September, he was informed that he can be let go from his job. He believed that the lady, whose particulars haven’t been disclosed, was guilty for the corporate’s option to now not make use of him, CNA reported.
In his anger, he labored out a plan to ship slices of pork in letters to mosques that he picked out randomly. By together with the lady’s data within the letters, he deliberate that the recipients would flip their ire towards her.
He despatched the letters to seven mosques on Sept 15, 2025. Upon receiving the letters, the police had been referred to as. As a result of a workers member from one of many mosques additionally referred to as the lady, whose telephone quantity was within the letters from Tan, she additionally filed a police report.
Tan was arrested shortly afterwards and has been in remand since then.
Throughout his sentencing, Deputy Public Prosecutor Selene Yap referred to as for “a transparent sign” to be despatched that may deter different people from “partaking in such anti-social and divisive behaviour.”
She requested for a 15 to 18-month jail sentence for Tan, saying that his “actions threaten the very material of our multiracial and multi-religious society” as he had “primarily weaponised faith to get the end result he needed, which is to harass the sufferer.”
District Decide Sharmila Sripathy-Shanaz referred to as non secular and racial concord “the very bedrock” of Singapore’s public order and nationwide cohesion, and is due to this fact one thing that should be rigorously guarded.
She characterised Tan’s actions as calculated and deeply offensive, including that that they had been meant to take advantage of non secular sensitivities and wound the non secular emotions of the Muslim group. /TISG
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