The 50-year-old Indian origin man in Singapore was jailed for 11.5 years on Thursday for committing armed robbery at a petrol station and admitting to drug consumption and possession.
Visvanathan Vaidvelu had pleaded guilty a week after running away in the middle of his court hearing while out on bail. He held responsible for committing armed theft at a Shell petrol station in Higher Bukit Timah Highway in 2017.
Vadivelu, who was unrepresented, told District Decide Kan Shuk Weng on Thursday that he was mentally unwell and that he fled from the court docket on September 17 after he heard voices telling him to go home. However, later his mom alerted police, who arrested him from his flat. He was taken again to court docket on September 19.
When Vadivelu informed Decide Kan that he wanted to be sentenced to the Institute of Psychological Well being (IMH), she replied that being despatched to IMH just isn’t a sentencing possibility.
He robbed a petroleum station on July 31, 2017, the time when he was unemployed, as he was “desperate for money”. Also, he had a packet of powdery substance which was later discovered to consist of diamorphine or pure heroin. Additionally, his urine samples confirmed traces of the drug methamphetamine, generally oftentimes known as Ice.
The armed theft might be imprisoned for as much as 10 years and given no less than 12 strokes of the cane. These over 50 years previous can’t be caned.
