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SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S Iswaran arrived at the State Courts on Monday (Oct 7) ahead of the deadline given for him to surrender and begin his jail term of 12 months.
Dressed down in a short-sleeved navy shirt and dark pants, the 62-year-old was dropped off in a white Toyota Alphard with a relative at about 3.30pm.
He did not respond to questions from the media about how he felt, any preparations he had made or if he had any message for his former constituents.
He checked on a member of the media who fell down at a flight of steps where others have fallen during media scrums, before entering the court and taking the escalators up to the mentions court on the fourth floor.
A small group of supporters, including his bailor and some of his lawyers from Davinder Singh Chambers, had arrived minutes before and were waiting for him outside Court 4A, where he was to surrender. Iswaran’s wife was not present.
When he arrived at the fourth floor, he hugged all seven members of the group, shaking their hands and expressing his appreciation to lawyer Navin Thevar.
