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Police NSF gets jail, cane for raping teen caught having sex with boyfriend
As a policeman, he was supposed to uphold the law.
But full-time police national serviceman Muhammad Shazwan Sapuwan abused his authority and threatened a young couple to do his bidding.
Then a Special Constable Corporal, the 21-year-old wore his police warrant card to frighten the teenage couple after he caught and photographed them having sex on a staircase landing at a Housing Board block.
Threatening to take them to a police station, he told the couple he would let them go only if they let him record a video of the then 16-year-old girl performing oral sex on her boyfriend, also 16.
Even though the frightened couple complied, Shazwan proceeded to rape the girl while the boy looked on helplessly.
Yesterday, Shazwan, now 23, was sentenced to jail for 18 years and 15 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to one count each of rape, sexual assault by penetration, outrage of modesty and extortion.
A second sexual assault by penetration charge involving the girl, one count of cheating and three other extortion charges were taken into consideration.
The court heard that Shazwan had other victims.
On separate occasions in 2014, he snuck up on two couples behaving intimately at HDB staircases and recorded them on video.
After introducing himself as a police officer, he cheated one of his victims out of $200 in August that year and extorted cash totalling $1,720 from another the following month.
The court heard that on Oct 24, 2014, Shazwan tailed the 16-year-old couple to a staircase landing and photographed them having sex.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Sellakumaran Sellamuthoo said the girl had met her boyfriend after school at around 1.45pm that day and they went to a block of flats in the north-western part of Singapore.
They went to a staircase landing on the seventh storey where they got intimate and the girl performed oral sex on the boy.
Shazwan, who had followed the pair, spied on them from the eighth storey. He snapped two photographs of the couple.
When they were done, Shazwan came forward. He wore a lanyard displaying his police warrant card.
DPP Sellakumaran said he was also wearing a Jurong Police Division Headquarters polo T-shirt and a pair of blue police pants.
Shazwan took down the teenagers' particulars and told them they had committed an offence of "public nudity".