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| Man sentenced to jail, fine for stealing motorcycles and riding them without license |
| 19 Nov 2009 |
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By Shaffiq Alkhatib
A 23-year old man has been sentenced to three years’ jail and fined 4,000 dollars for stealing five motorcycles which he rode without a license.
Shukur Hashim stole the first motorcycle on 28th September this year.
The owner had left it at a multi-storey car park at 406A Admiralty Drive at around 830 am that day.
Shukur was there about 4 hours later and managed to start it after inserting a pair of scissors into the ignition.
Shukur stole four more motorcycles between 29th September and 25th October this year.
Only this time, he had accomplices to act as lookouts.
The motorcycles were taken from car parks in Yishun, Margaret Drive and Woodlands.
On 27th October, police officers arrested one of the accomplices who was in possession of one of the stolen motorcycles.
With the information gathered from him, officers managed to nabbed Shukur and another accomplice.
For theft of motor vehicles, those convicted can be jailed for up to seven years. |