Ah ha! You pple must be thinking abt words that moved me is from girl. Nope, its not wat i’m blogging abt. I dun remember wat leds me to tell girl that the words of Justice Tay Yong Kwang moved me so much that i will remember for a long time. Its about the famous AWOL case with rifle, Dave Teo.

Justice Tay said:

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‘MY HEART hurts for you that so young a man will have to spend some of the best years of his life in prison and have to undergo so many strokes of the cane, but I trust that you understand a deterrent sentence is unavoidable in the circumstances.

Dave, you have had a very hard life. I hope that this unfortunate and traumatic wrong turn in your life will make you much more mature and a whole lot wiser and that you will spend the next few years reconstructing your young life.

I hope that you will pursue your studies, listen to good advice from counsellors and learn many skills while in prison and that, upon your release, you will have a life full of meaning and purpose to honour the memory of your grandmother and your beloved younger brother.

It has been written, ‘To everything there is a season’. There was a time when you loved, there came a time when you hated. There was a time when you felt you wanted to kill, now is the time for you to heal. There was a time you were broken down, now is the time to build yourself up. There was a time when you were at war in your being, now is the time to restore peace within.‘

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Amazing words… He is my singapore idol…

But of course there were critics that said that he is being hypocrite to say these words after passing a harsh judgement on him. I don’t think so…