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Teen Sentenced to Reformative Training for Trafficking Kpods and Kicking Elderly Woman

From CNA · () English

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  • A teenager in Singapore received at least 12 months of reformative training after pleading guilty to seven offences, including trafficking etomidate and kicking an 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair.
  • Prosecutors cited repeated offending, breaches of probation and work as a runner for a money laundering group in seeking a deterrent sentence.
  • The court also barred him from holding or obtaining a driving licence for two years after his release.

A Singapore teenager who kicked an 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair, trafficked Kpods and committed other offences has been sentenced to at least 12 months of reformative training. He cannot be named because he was under 18 when some of the offences took place.

The teenager pleaded guilty to seven charges, including trafficking etomidate and transferring benefits from criminal conduct. Another 17 charges were taken into consideration. His other offences included working as a runner for a money laundering group, withdrawing S$19,000 from six UOB bank accounts, and driving without a licence.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Ernest Goh described the offences as “extremely serious in nature” and said they occurred over a substantial period from Feb. 28 to Oct. 16, 2025, often while the teenager was on bail. Prosecutors argued that probation was not realistic because he had previously breached a probation order, was detained at the Singapore Boys’ Home and reoffended less than a year after his release.

extremely serious in nature

· Ernest GohThe deputy public prosecutor described the teenager’s offences in written submissions.

District Judge Kamala Ponnampalam found him suitable for reformative training and said he required targeted intervention. She also disqualified him from holding or obtaining any class of driving licence for two years after his release. The judge said she reduced the prosecution’s requested three-year ban as a concession to his status as a youth offender, but warned that the concession would not be available if he reoffended.

Court documents said the teenager bought a “ghost car”, a vehicle without a valid Certificate of Entitlement, for S$2,500 after seeing an advertisement on Telegram. He drove it at least six times, including once at 95 kmh on a road with a 70 kmh limit. On Oct. 15, 2025, after consuming etomidate, he drove to Ang Mo Kio to pick up his 16-year-old girlfriend before heading toward Causeway Point.

A sentence of probation would not give sufficient effect to the significant degree of deterrence required in the present case

· Ernest GohThe prosecutor argued that probation would not adequately address the case.
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