Man gets jail for having obscene films in phone. The type of sentence will depend on the circumstances, the quality, quantity and the nature of the films.
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HAVING obscene DVDs in your possession is an offence - people know that.
But what about having an obscene film in your mobile phone, laptop or iPad even?
Answer: It is still an offence.
The court was told that Tan Hiap Hua, 49, had been taken to the lock-up at the Police Cantonment complex on Feb 10 this year as he was under investigation for other offences.
Police officer Wong Pang Wai was interviewing him then and took his mobile phone from him.
On checking Tan's mobile phone, the officer found 38 obscene video clips on the phone and seized it.
The video clips were transferred to a CD-ROM and sent to the Board of Film Censors for analysis. The board later confirmed that the films were obscene.
Tan admitted to possessing the obscene films and acknowledged that he knew it was an offence.
In his mitigation, his lawyer, Mr Tan Hsuan Boon, said that Tan had downloaded the 38 obscene films from the Internet onto his mobile phone for his private viewing.
Tan was sentenced to three months' jail.
