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SINGAPORE – The man who was kept behind bars for two extra days because of an administrative error in the State Courts said he had tried to distract himself to avoid thinking about the extra hours he was spending in jail.
For those two nights, he had tossed and turned in the jail cell that he shared with three others, Mr Teo Seng Tiong told The Straits Times on Saturday (Sept 19).
On some nights of the fish farmer’s seven week imprisonment term, he said he was kept awake by the incessant whirr of the ventilator fan and the sound his cellmates made as they showered.
But between Aug 22 and 23, it was the fact that he should have been a free man that weighed heavily on the 59-year-old’s mind.
“During the day, I could distract myself by talking to other people but at night, when no one else was awake, I kept thinking about it,” said Mr Teo in Mandarin.
“You keep telling yourself not to and try to sleep, but you can’t stop thinking about it… It was like time wasn’t moving.”
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