A MAN who molested three female students by lifting up their skirts and grabbing the buttocks of two of them was jailed for 12 months yesterday.

Tan Wen Zhong, 23, who pleaded guilty, preyed on the women who were returning home late at night or in the wee hours of the morning.

The unemployed man first struck on March 11 when he followed a 20-year-old woman into a lift in Tah Ching Road in Jurong West.

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