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SINGAPORE - A CABBY who provided transport to three Indonesian robbers was sentenced to three years and 12 strokes of the cane on Monday for abetting in the robbery.
Rosaidil Dollah, 41, admitted to intentionally aiding Ahmad Yani, 41, Lutpi Amir, 39, and Mohammad Rizky, 37, to commit robbery at a house at Riverina View in Pasir Ris on July 7.
The court heard that on July 5, Rosaidil had picked up the three from Jalan Besar as previously arranged and drove them to a housing estate in Bukit Timah to recce the homes were targetting to rob.
The next day, Rizky again contacted Rosaidil to pick them up. This time he drove them to Pasir Ris where the trio robbed businessman Daren Ng Chih-Ming, 39, of $84,418 worth of property.
The trio, donning gloves and masks, entered the house through a back door by climbing over the fence of the house. Each of them then took a knife from the kitchen before confronting the victim and his wife in the master bedroom. Other family members were rounded up and taken to the master bedroom. They tied up the victim.
After the heist, Rosaidil came and picked up them up. He was rewarded $200 and was also given a bag of jewellery to sell. He later sold them and gave the proceeds to Yani and received a share of it.
The three robbers have each been sentenced to 4-1/2 years' jail plus 12 strokes of the cane. Another man, Mohamad Hailmy Mohd Saad, 34, who had similarly provided transport to two of the robbers last year, was given three years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane.
Rosaidil had another similar charge and two counts of disposing stolen jewelleries considered during sentencing.
Rosaidil's lawyer Peter Fernando said his client, a father of two, succumbed to temption as he owed several loansharks about $5,000.
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