SINGAPORE - Mr Lee Wee Yong was a young man on the cusp of adulthood.
The rough edges of his teenage years - fighting, involvement with theft - had smoothened out after he was caught stealing a schoolmate's mobile phone. A let-off with a warning from the police made him decide to change his delinquent ways.
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