Man who drugged elderly women at polyclinics to steal from them gets 7 years' corrective training

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SINGAPORE: A serial thief previously jailed for drugging elderly women to steal from them was sentenced on Friday (Aug 7) to seven years' ...

and causing women to take stupefying drugs, with five other charges taken into consideration for sentencing.

Oh has a string of previous convictions including similar offences, with two of these convictions involving identical modus operandi. He offered her the drug zopiclone, a hypnotic drug used for short-term treatment of insomnia, and said it would relieve her neck pain. She took the drug and became light-headed.

A day later, the victim's granddaughter saw Oh outside the family's flat with a bunch of keys, but he had trouble finding a key to match the door.

 

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