It was 6.50am on a Thursday morning last month when Lim Jia Xin, 20, woke up to find a stranger lifting her blanket. The man — yet to be identified — then bolted out of her room on the sixth storey of Hall of Residence 8, said the first-year student from the School of Biological Sciences.
“I was in a state of shock,” said Lim. “I’d been sleeping so I could not instantly process what happened or what I could do.” It took about 10 minutes for the severity of the incident to dawn on her before she called Campus Security, who arrived at 7.15am.
The following week, Hall 8 Senior Hall Fellow Lam Yeng Ming sent out a mass email reminding residents to lock their doors and look out for suspicious characters. Sending reminders like this is a routine practice across all halls on the university campus, according to the Hall Office.
But Lim is not the only victim with a story to share. A 21-year-old student from Hall of Residence 1, who declined to be named, had a similar experience. A stranger had entered her room last September while she was asleep.
Since the victims had gone to sleep without locking their doors in both incidents, the Office of Housing and Auxiliary Services (HAS) classified them as cases of trespass.
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