Caught after angry dad tracks him down

IT WAS a harmless game of hide and seek, and she was covering her eyes with one hand and counting down when she allegedly felt someone pulling her arm.

But when she lowered her hand, five-year-old Annie (not her real name) realised with a shock that the
person standing next to her and holding her arm was not her cousin, but a foreign worker.

Her cousins, who saw the incident, dashed home to get help from the adults.

In the meantime, Annie managed to break free from the man's grasp. He then left quickly.

The incident happened on Saturday evening when Annie and her cousins were playing in the eighth-storey corridor of an HDB block in Bishan, where they had gone to attend a wedding.

Annie's father later spotted a man matching his daughter's description sitting at a pavilion near the void deck of the block where the incident happened.

When the police arrived, the suspect was sitting in the pavilion, with his face resting on the table.

A police spokesman said the suspect, a 25-year-old worker from India, has been released on bail.

The police are investigating this as a case of wrongful restraint.

For more details, read today's The New Paper.

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