Updated Saturday, October 3, 2009 2:22 pm TWN, dpa

Singapore watch thief gets 9 years for heist

SINGAPORE -- A Singapore court on Friday sentenced a former supervisor of a luxury watch retailer, who made off with goods worth several million US dollars, to nine years in jail, a media report said. Jerry Ee, 36, had pleaded guilty to taking more than 360 expensive designer watches and other property worth S$7.7 million (US$5.3 million) from the outlet's safe after the shop closed on Christmas Day last year.

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