The Woffles Wu case has opened a Pandora’s box for the judicial system in Singapore with subsequent offenders of similar offences now using it as a precedent to appeal against a jail sentence.
Now, pastor Steven Yang from Eternal Life Baptist Church is using the Woffles case to appeal against his jail sentence of two weeks for giving false information under the Customs Act.
Yang’s lawyer Peter Ong drew similarities to Woffles’ case to question ed if the Senior District Judge had placed previous sentencing precedents “on an altar and obsessively worshipped them”.
In both cases, the false information given was to evade a small speeding fine or a “small amount of excise duty on petrol”, said Mr Ong. Full story
