Pritam Singh's lawyer continues to cast doubts on Raeesah Khan's credibility

He points to inconsistencies in her earlier statements and evidence given since trial's start

- Wong Pei Ting Correspondent and Tham Yuen-C Senior Political Correspondent

Whether former Sengkang GRC MP Raeesah Khan's evidence could be relied upon continued to be the subject of cross-examination on Oct 16, the third day of Workers' Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh's trial.

Singh's lawyer, Mr Andre Jumabhoy, sought to take the court through inconsistencies in Ms Khan's statements to the police and the Committee of Privileges, and the evidence she had given since the trial began on Oct 14.

This was as the defence had, on Oct 15, applied to impeach Ms Khan's credibility as a witness.

If successful, what Ms Khan says in court would be given less weight by the judge.

Singh is contesting two charges over his alleged lies to a parliamentary committee convened in November 2021 to investigate Ms Khan's untruth in Parliament.

Ms Khan had, on Aug 3, 2021, told Parliament about how she had accompanied a sexual assault victim to a police station, where the victim was treated insensitively.

She repeated the claim before the House on Oct 4 the same year, before admitting to her lie on Nov 1, 2021.

In the morning, Mr Jumabhoy showed that Ms Khan's statement to the police on May 12, 2022, was that Singh told her on Oct 3, 2021, that "knowing them (the Government), they may bring it up again", and if her untrue anecdote was brought up in Parliament on Oct 4, he would not judge her if she kept to her lie.

However, Ms Khan said on the first day of the trial that Singh had told her on Oct 3 that he did not think the issue would come up again, but that if it did, he would not judge her for continuing with her narrative.

Asked if there was a difference between her two accounts, Ms Khan at first said they were different ways of saying the same thing, but later agreed that there was a difference.