The High Court on Friday quashed the conviction of a man who took the fall for his daughter by pleading guilty and going to jail in her stead over a road traffic accident.
- Mr David Ong pleaded guilty in September 2020 in the State Courts to his purported role in a car accident, where his car collided with a motorcycle along Tampines Avenue 2 in October 2019.
- He was also banned from driving for two years.
- Immediately after the collision, the conversation suggested that Mr Ong had informed his daughter that he would "take her place", said Deputy Public Prosecutor Santhra Aiyyasamy.
- She urged the court to quash his conviction, as it was "palpably wrong".
- He "perverted the course of justice by taking the blame for an offence on behalf of another person", said the prosecutor.
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