S’pore will continue war on drugs as drug-related crimes plague countries: Shanmugam

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S’pore will continue war on drugs as drug-related crimes plague countries: Shanmugam
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The Minister for Home Affairs highlighted violent crimes, even involving children, here and abroad.

Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam said Singapore was in the midst of a war on drugs, and must do all it can to protect innocent lives.

The man had taken methamphetamine in the morning that Umaisyah died. He and his wife got upset with the girl for playing with her faeces after soiling her diaper, and they slapped her. Umaisyah’s father was sentenced to 21½ years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for culpable homicide, while her mother was sentenced to 14 years’ jail for ill-treating her children and perverting the course of justice.'A single hanging of a drug trafficker is a tragedy; a million deaths from drug abuse is a statistic'Gabriel Lien Goh, then a 22-year-old full-time national serviceman, killed the two women on October 27, 2019 at their residential flat at Block 7A Commonwealth Avenue.

The report said the second tab of LSD led him to experience feelings of unreality, distortion of shapes, exaggerated colours, illusions, hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and distortion of spatial order and sense of time. He was then placed on drug supervision for 16 months, but had stopped reporting for urine tests in November 2022.In early 2023, the court heard the case of a man who had committed incest with his 17-year-old daughter after sharing methamphetamine with his daughter, said Mr Shanmugam.

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