Iris Koh Given New Charge for Tearing up Statement While in Lockup, But is Finally Granted Bail

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Lin Jiawen
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Er, I thought only kids and dogs tear paper when you want to tell your teacher that your dog ate your homework?

Well, clearly not.

Iris Koh’s Charges

By now, everyone probably knows that Iris Koh is currently charged with an offence of criminal conspiracy to cheat, and is facing up to 20 years in jail if convicted.

Additionally, she was also recently charged with obstructing a police officer when she refused to sign the charges and, well, doing exactly what you’d expect from someone acting like a kid – tearing up both charge slips that were handed to her.

At this point, I’m really convinced that any child can listen to instructions better than her.

Apart from that episode, Koh also threw other tantrums and made a whole lot of excuses, such as trying to file a police report against her investigation officer instead of assisting with investigations, blah blah blah…

And if you’d like to refresh your memory after the Chinese New Year holiday with a full list of what she’s done, click here.

Her unruly behaviour, coupled with a few other factors, led to her lawyer’s appeal for her to be released on bail in time for the Chinese New Year holiday to be rejected.

(Okay, for those who’ve read the article linked above, I guess her lawyer’s behaviour could have also contributed to it.)

However, lo and behold, despite her recent additional charge, Koh has finally been granted bail after being remanded since 23 January.

Koh Finally Granted Bail

Just like her accomplices Jipson Quah and Thomas Chua, Koh was initially not granted bail and appeals to get her released on bail were all rejected.

Quah and Chua were released on bail of $20,000 and $15,000 respectively on Chinese New Year eve (31 January).

However, Koh remained in custody throughout the Chinese New Year holiday.

Today (4 February), Koh was offered bail of $20,000 after the prosecutor deemed that keeping Koh in custody to assist investigations was no longer necessary.

She was released on bail with a few conditions:

Firstly, she is not allowed to contact Quah, Chua or any members from Healing the Divide that are involved in this case.

Although Deputy Public Prosecutor Samuel Yap initially asked for Koh to not contact any members of Healing the Divide who might be prosecution witnesses, Lun challenged this stand by flagging the restriction as “openly broad” since the group has more than 6,000 members and Koh may not be aware that some members are accomplices.

Er, I thought she very intelligent one? You sure she cannot tell?

Lun then asked the DPP Yap to name the potential witnesses. However, DPP Yap said he was unable to do so due to the fact that investigations are still taking place.

Other than that, according to CNA, Koh is also not to interfere with any witnesses or obstruct the course of Justice. She is also not permitted to commit any offence when released on bail.

On top of that, she is required to surrender to custody for investigations and attend court when necessary.

I’m pretty sure these seem like pretty “duh” things, but I guess it’s better to list them out, lest Ms Koh’s intelligence is way too high to comprehend our language.

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Previously, her lawyer, Mr Clarence Lun, also cited that it was Koh’s husband’s “sincere wish” to spend Chinese New Year with his wife.

I guess at least they’ll get to spend Yuan Xiao Jie, the 15th day of CNY together?

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