Property Agent Fined $4,200 for Stalking His Insurance Agent After She Rejected His Romantic Advances

When someone you’re romantically interested in rebuffs your advances, there are a few normal ways in which you can react:

1. Go home and cry into your pillow
2. Start dating again
3. Call your love interest repeatedly, sent her gifts, and stalk her

If option 3 sounds a little insane, well, that’s because it is. But that’s exactly what one property agent chose to do.

And yesterday (25 Feb), he paid the price for it.

Harassed Insurance Agent After She Rejected His Romantic Advances

The property agent, Lee, met the victim at a Prudential insurance roadshow in 2017. They met up later to discuss insurance policy matters.

He developed an attraction towards her in late 2018 and made his feelings known to her in a face-to-face meeting.

She rejected him, saying she just wanted to maintain a professional relationship with him.

The man must have been watching romance movies from the 70s at the time because he seemed to think that persistent harassment is the key to overcoming rejection.

The 31-year-old began calling the victim and sending gifts to her at her workplace.

This put the insurance agent in a tough spot; she couldn’t block his number because she still had to advise him on matters about his insurance policy.

Moreover, terminating their professional relationship would adversely affect her work performance.

So, she simply avoided his calls and pleaded with him to stop sending gifts to her work as it could get her in trouble with her superiors.

But Lee did not stop.

Over the next seven months, he called her 11 times and sent her at least 44 messages. He even threatened to terminate his insurance policies with her in some of his messages.

Stalked Her on Three Occasions 

He also stalked her on three occasions.

The first incident occurred on 16 July 2019, when she was walking to Novena MRT Station. She saw him walking in the opposite direction and he began to trail her.

She said she couldn’t speak to him, but he followed her onto the train and to her workplace.

He only left when she told him off outside the building.

Then, on 8 Nov 2019, Lee saw her meeting two clients at a café in Tanjong Pagar.

When she was leaving with the clients and a colleague, Lee approached her and refused to stay away.

She had to ask her clients if she could follow them back to their home for her safety.

And this is supposed to sweep her off her feet?

Lee followed them and waited at the void deck of the client’s house for some time, but eventually left.

The last incident took place on 11 Feb 2020, when the victim ran into Lee at Newton MRT Station while with two colleagues.

She told him to leave them alone but he insisted on following them.

This prompted one of the colleagues to call the police.

Lee even followed the victim into a lift when she tried to escape. She then took another lift but he tailed her until she went to a security post to get help.

Fined $4,200 for Stalking

Yesterday, the 31-year-old was fined $4,200 after pleading guilty to one charge of unlawful stalking.

He initially wanted to claim trial, meaning he wanted to dispute the charges.

For his offence, Lee could have been jailed up to a year, fined up to S$5,000, or both.

If there were a guidebook on how not to react to romantic rejection, this guy could write several volumes.

If someone rejects our romantic advances, let’s just cry into our pillows and move on like a normal person.

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