SINGAPORE, Dec 2 — An Australian television reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation was sentenced to 10 months' jail by the Subordinate Court today after he pleaded guilty to several drug charges.
Peter Gerard Lloyd, 42, ABC's New Delhi-based correspondent, was jailed eight months for possession of 0.41g of methamphetamine, a controlled drug, at Mount Elizabeth Hospital on July 16.
Judge Hamidah Ibrahim also jailed him for another eight months for consuming the same drug without authorisation in Singapore on July 16.
Lloyd was also given an additional two months' jail on two counts of possessing utensils that carried traces of ketamine and methamphetamine at the same hospital on the same day. All sentences are to run concurrently.
He was arrested by Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau while on holiday here on July 16 and was on S$60,000 (about RM142,600) bail.
Lloyd was charged on July 23 with five drug offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act that provides a jail term of between three years and 20 years and five to 15 strokes of the rotan upon conviction.
But in October, the prosecution officially dropped one trafficking charge against him — for selling 0.15g of methamphetamine to a Singaporean at a hotel here on July 9.
Lloyd, who has a nine-year old son, was represented by counsel Hamidul Haq.
Also present in court was his ex-wife Kirsty McIvor, who broke down in tears after the judge announced the sentences. — Bernama
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