Singapore lover jailed for e-mail hijack

SINGAPORE -- A spurned lover will spend a year in a Singapore jail after bombarding his ex-girlfriend with obscene e-mails and hijacking her account.

Chief Justice Yong Pung How called Lim Siong Khee a "nasty piece of work" during his appeal and increased his sentence from the original five months, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Lim, a freelance computer consultant, was convicted of illegally accessing an e-mail account last year.

Lim, 30, began sending obscene e-mails to his journalist ex-girlfriend and eventually hijacked her account following a two-week relationship during a trip to Europe in March 2000.

He read her messages and used the account to send lewd e-mails to his former lover's friends.

"A woman has the right to decide whom she wants to consort with," the judge said. "When you go on this sort of rampage, surely there can't be anything worse than what he did."

Reuters contributed to this report.

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