Family of ex-inmate prefers to keep the settlement amount confidential
By
K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
THE amount of compensation a former prison inmate received from the Government for having taken additional strokes of the cane while behind bars will stay unknown.
The Home Affairs Ministry said last week that it was fine with disclosing the details of the settlement - till now confidential - if Mr Dickson Tan, 21, was fine with it as well.
But his family, afraid that relatives and friends might think they had scored a windfall and come knocking for a cut of the money, would rather keep the amount to themselves.
Read K.C Vijayan's full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
