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March 18, 2010
The Straits Times
AN UNEMPLOYED woman doped a string of victims and cleaned them out of more than $40,000, some of which she used to pay for Botox and beauty treatments.
Forty-four-year-old Vicky Herman Quek Bee Lan (above), picked her victims carefully: most wore costly Rolex watches and they were always alone.
Her penchant for theft dates back years, and earned her 6-1/2 years in jail in 1999. She would chat men up, slip sedatives into their coffee, and steal their cash and valuables when they passed out.
In her latest offences, Quek targeted 14 men, aged between 43 and 75, over four months last year. She made off with cash and property worth $40,086 before she was arrested shortly before Christmas, after police traced her through a clinic which prescribed sedatives.
Urging the court to impose a deterrent sentence, Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo said Quek would have carried on her 'grand scheme of doping and robbing elderly men' had she not been caught.
'She only preyed on victims with Rolex watches on them because, according to her, other watches had no resale value and buyers were not interested in them,' he said.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
The Straits Times
AN UNEMPLOYED woman doped a string of victims and cleaned them out of more than $40,000, some of which she used to pay for Botox and beauty treatments.
Forty-four-year-old Vicky Herman Quek Bee Lan (above), picked her victims carefully: most wore costly Rolex watches and they were always alone.
Her penchant for theft dates back years, and earned her 6-1/2 years in jail in 1999. She would chat men up, slip sedatives into their coffee, and steal their cash and valuables when they passed out.
In her latest offences, Quek targeted 14 men, aged between 43 and 75, over four months last year. She made off with cash and property worth $40,086 before she was arrested shortly before Christmas, after police traced her through a clinic which prescribed sedatives.
Urging the court to impose a deterrent sentence, Deputy Public Prosecutor Adrian Loo said Quek would have carried on her 'grand scheme of doping and robbing elderly men' had she not been caught.
'She only preyed on victims with Rolex watches on them because, according to her, other watches had no resale value and buyers were not interested in them,' he said.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times.
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