SINGAPORE: The grandson of the founder of department store OG was fined S$3,500 on Monday (Jul 15) for harassing the husband of his lover at the time.
SINGAPORE: The grandson of the founder of department store OG was fined S$3,500 on Monday forKelvin Liu Chin Chan, 44, was found guilty of one charge under the Protection from Harassment Act, in a private prosecution case brought by civil servant Desmond Tay Kwang Ju, 40.Liu sent photographs and made telephone calls to Mr Tay, the husband of his lover - identified only as Madam Lin - between June 2016 and January 2017. Liu is now married to Mdm Lin.
Mr Tay had found out that his wife was having an affair with Liu in 2016 when Liu's wife at that time contacted him.He then hired a private investigator to check on his wife, who denied that she was cheating on him. Liu said that he had sent the picture as he had been drinking that day and was in"a state of bad judgment".
"But all is fair in love and war and the courts are not the forum to police matters of the heart," said the defence counsel."This long-drawn private prosecution has already cost much time and expense, and on that account could itself be said to have been means of getting back at , rightly or wrongly."
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