Online personality Kurt Tay gets more charges, says he will make police reports after being heckled

[The_King]

SINGAPORE — Online personality Kurt Tay has been handed 10 fresh charges of distributing obscene material online and threatening a person in a Telegram chat group.

Tay, whose real name is Tay Foo Wei, now faces a total of 11 charges — 10 for distributing intimate images or videos of a woman without her consent to others via Telegram, and one charge under the Protection from Harassment Act of making threatening, abusive or insulting communication.

 

The charges are for Tay sending photos and videos of the same woman to users on Telegram and to chat groups, showing the woman performing a sex act.

The distribution was without her consent and likely to cause her humiliation, alarm and distress, the charges state.

On top of two chat groups, Tay also allegedly sent the material to seven people in October 2023.

 

 

The names of the recipients and the chat groups cannot be published as the court has imposed a gag order on their names.

The victim is also protected by a gag order.

The sole harassment-related charge that Tay faces is for several statements he allegedly made in a Telegram chat group on Oct 18, 2023.

He purportedly asked if anyone knew where to hire a killer and that he wanted someone to die "ASAP", including vulgarities in his message.

The court heard on Wednesday that Tay might face additional charges.

Tay's lawyer told the court that his client has been "harassed and heckled by the public", and that this has caused grief to his family.

 

 

Tay would be making police reports, the lawyer added.

A video taken by CNA on Nov 16 last year showed several people following Tay, laughing and making comments at him outside the State Courts.

Tay, who refers to himself online as Superstar Celebrity Kurt Tay, first appeared publicly in an audition for Singapore Idol in 2006.

He was later mentioned in the media multiple times for his behaviour, such as getting breast implants, carrying a World Wrestling Entertainment belt to events and participating in a street fight.

Tay's case will be mentioned again in February.

If convicted of distributing intimate material without a woman's consent, he could be jailed for up to five years, fined, caned, or given any combination of these punishments.

 

If found guilty of making threatening, abusive or insulting communication, he could be fined up to S$5,000. CNA

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[Coffee_O]

just jail him or sent him to IMH lah. knn siao lang

14 hours ago, The_King said:

Online personality Kurt Tay

Online siao lang more appropriate loh