Stalker who asked for photo of a girl’s private parts jailed for a year


SINGAPORE: An unemployed man who stalked a teenager for about a year and demanded photographs of her private parts was jailed for 12 months on Friday (June 17).

Lai Zhi Heng, 26, is the first to be convicted of unlawful stalking under the Protection from Harassment Act (Poha). He had repeatedly threatened to release the 19-year-old's nude photographs to people she knew if she did not comply with his requests to meet him and send him more nude photographs.

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