Toa Payoh: PonteSud – News Desk
A lawyer, who has a history of speeding and drink driving, was charged on June 19 after he allegedly drank and drove again in 2024. Steven John Lam Kuet Keng, 55, is also accused of lying to two police officers following an accident on April 7 that year after his car purportedly mounted a kerb and hit some railings.
He had allegedly claimed that an unknown person had driven the car when the accident occurred. According to the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Lam is a director, shareholder and secretary at Templars Law.
On June 19, he was handed one count each of drink driving and driving a car without due care and attention, resulting in the accident. He was also charged with two counts of giving false information to a public servant.
Court documents stated that he was convicted of speeding in 1999 and drink driving in 2006. The documents do not disclose his punishments for doing so. In his latest case, Lam was allegedly driving a car without due care and attention on Bukit Panjang Road towards Choa Chu Kang Road at around 12.30am on April 7, 2024, when the accident occurred.
He was allegedly found with at least 61 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath soon after. The prescribed limit is 35mcg of alcohol in the same amount of breath.
Lam is accused of lying to Senior Staff Sergeant Muhammad Ridwan Abdullah in an oral statement in the vicinity of Bukit Panjang Road at about 12.50am that day. The lawyer had allegedly claimed that he was not the driver of the car when the accident occurred.
Lam is also accused of telling a similar lie to Investigation Officer Muhammad Farhan Sairi in a statement recorded at the Traffic Police Headquarters in Ubi Avenue 3 shortly before 5am on April 7, 2024.
His case will be mentioned again in court on July 15. For drink driving, a first-time offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $10,000. A repeat offender can be jailed for up to two years and fined up to $20,000.
For each count of giving false information to a public servant, an offender can be jailed for up to two years and fined.
