Saravanan Surindaran, 32, pleaded guilty to stealing four aluminium railings in Bedok South Road on Jun 27. They were worth $410.

His accomplice Tarmen Mohamed, 49, has been dealt with.

A district court heard that the duo unscrewed the railings on a bridge near Block 164 Bedok South Road and sold them to a scrap metal shop in Geylang. The items were recovered.

Two days earlier, Saravanan and an unknown accomplice stole a row of letterboxes worth $200 from the void deck of a block of flats in Ubi Avenue 1, and sold them to a karung guni or rag-and-bone man.

For each vandalism charge, Saravanan could have been fined up to $2,000 or jailed up to three years; he could have also been dealt at least three strokes of the cane.

He has unrelated previous convictions for drugs, theft and robbery.