By Elena Chong
A YOUNG man who threatened to circulate a video of a free-lance prostitute if she failed to give him money was jailed on Friday.
Allan Khoo Wenbo had threatened to injure the 21-year-old student's reputation by sending her the SMS at Bencoolen Hotel 81 on July 6 last year if he was not paid $3,000. The 24-year-old unemployed man had engaged her services through a pimp and used the identity card of one Ong Yao Liang to check into the hotel at Bencoolen Street that day.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Thiagesh Sukumaran said that while the woman was taking a shower, Khoo rummaged through her handbag and obtained her particulars and address.
When she came out, they had sex. After that, the woman asked him to take her for a holiday. Enraged, he decided not to pay her. He stole her $800 mobile phone when she was in the shower and sold it for $280.
As he was leaving the room with the stolen phone, Khoo sent the woman a text message demanding $3,000, failing which he would expose the video. She lodged a police report.
Khoo also admitted to having 86 obscene films in July 2008, as well as to video-recording himself having sex with his ex-girlfriend at his grandfather's flat in Bedok North Avenue 2 in February last year. District Judge Jasbendar Kaur, who took five other charges into consideration, sentenced him to a total of nine months jail.
