Malay Mail Online

Malay Mail Online: "A 15-year-old boy is in police custody for trying to blackmail his neighbour, a single woman, into sleeping with him.

In a case which surprised even the police, the boy had sent her notes, threatening to publicise photographs of her sleeping, in various stages of nudity.

He even made reference to a mole near her private part, to let her know that it wasn’t a bluff.

The hand-written letters were slipped under the door of her apartment. In the last letter which was delivered on Tuesday, he even told her that if she was agreeable to his proposal, she should leave a condom near her door.

The 34-year-old woman, said to be a civil servant, lodged a police report after the second letter. She told police she ignored the first letter which was sent a month ago, thinking it was a prank.

On the advice of police, the woman laid a trap for the boy. She placed a condom at her doorstep on Wednesday night. About 15 minutes later, the condom was gone.

She immediately contacted police and a team led by Chief Inspector Sulaiman Baputty, went to the scene.

An hour later, at 1.30am, they found the boy perched on the ledge outside the woman’s bedroom window. Her unit is on the second floor of a four-storey walk-up flat.

On seeing the police, the boy climbed down and t"