Kids, dun anyhow use the "burn house, beat mother" peekture
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Seven months' jail for his part in car saleswoman's death
Thursday • October 25, 2007
Nazry Bahrawi
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HIS recklessness while driving a sports car caused the death of his passenger, a car saleswoman. For that rash act, Regan Lee Da Wen (picture), 26, will now have to spend seven months in jail and will be banned from driving for 10 years.
Two years ago, he was behind the steering wheel of a Mazda MX-5 during a test drive when his vehicle flew over a road divider along Upper Paya Lebar Road, crashing into a BMW and a van on the other side of the road.
Although he escaped with minor injuries, the crash resulted in the death of car saleswoman Angelia He Xueli, 22.
While he was initially charged with causing a death, Lee later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of committing a rash act, which carries a maximum sentence of two years' imprisonment, or fine, or both.
In his mitigation plea, defence lawyer Julian Tay, who had argued for a jail term of not more than three months, said Lee had lost control of the car while negotiating a bend in the road. The lawyer described the road as "uneven, sandy and covered with metal plates due to construction works" for the Circle Line.
But court documents also said that Lee was driving at more than 90kmh — about twice that road's legal speed limit.
Mr Tay said his client had offered "his full and unqualified apology" to the deceased's family.
In April, the online motoring community had expressed anger that Lee was allowed to drive while investigations were in progress.
The reaction came after Lee wrote in an online motoring forum that he was on the lookout for a fast car, and could not decide between a Subaru WRX and a Volkswagen Golf GTI.
But Mr Tay said his client's comments, as reported in The Straits Times, were "taken out of context" because Lee had been shopping for a car before the accident, but shelved his plans to do so for more than a year due to the "trauma" he experienced because of the accident.
Mr Tay added that Lee's family has received hate mail and threats "ranging from burning down their house to beating up his mother".
A lawyer told Today that in his view, the seven-month jail sentence seemed "a little bit harsh". However, the lawyer added, in Lee's case, there could have been aggravating factors, such as the fact that he was driving above the legal speed limit.
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Whoa... This picture so famous ah...
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well, they're right in a way.. when he was born, the doctor shoulda slapped his momma
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Wah piah,seven months still say harsh
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this case is still going on?
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CHANGE TO RHK HIS HOUSE AND KFK HIS MOTHER LAH
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This means someone from SGF is harassing him
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i've seen that image long b4 in other forums lar...besides i'm pretty sure that smuck has made quite a number of haters due to his unrepentent act even after the accident..Originally posted by dbowie:This means someone from SGF is harassing him -
wah nice one...Originally posted by chillz88: -
I feel bad for the mother.
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i feel bad for freedom fighter's mum now.
i feel like giving her a tight slap! -
more photoshoped peekture pls!!!!!!!!
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for wat? she should b happy since she is able to step out her house alive everyday..Originally posted by Slipshade:I feel bad for the mother.
feel bad for the victim mother instead.. -
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yi ren zhuo shi, yi ren dang.
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but now is ren ming yi tiao bu jian diao.Originally posted by Hello Kitty:yi ren zhuo shi, yi ren dang. -
The reporter is too dense to figure out that the image is a metaphorical representation.
No wonder we're 147th. -
yang3 er2 bu4 jiao4, fu4 mu3 zi1 guo4!Originally posted by Hello Kitty:yi ren zhuo shi, yi ren dang.
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Originally posted by DriftingGuy:
Looks like some soft core porn film. -
I think i watched before. THINKOriginally posted by seotiblizzard:
Looks like some soft core porn film. -
Originally posted by toyota-corolla:I think i watched before. THINK
LOL.
i cant read the title.