I read that this is not the first time Howard is sentenced to a jail term: previously from what I have read, he has been jailed for drink-driving before, but I believe his sentencing and jail term then was not really profiled widely in the media.
For the remaining men of the high-profile online sex case
with the underage girl, I believe they would be tried soon.
Recently, Singapore has been plagued by a number of sex and
graft cases-alleged or not:
a) this episode of 51 men charged for having sex with an underage
lady
b) the sex-for-contract case of ex-SCDF and ex-CNB boss
c) the alleged graft
of MFA official
d) the sex-for-grade case of a NUS Professor and his
ex-student,
e) the sex case between a secondary school female teacher
and her male student,
f) the City Harvest case
g) the NPark’s Brompton bicycle cases
and others which I may have left out here.
There are also many cases of people getting angry especially
in MRTs and Buses. I think Singapore is getting more stressed.