Former transport minister S. Iswaran steps out of the Supreme Court after being handed a one-year jail sentence on Oct 3. The sentence is more than the six to seven months asked for by the prosecution, which Justice Hoong considers “manifestly inadequate”.He is Singapore’s first political office-holder in nearly five decades to be sentenced in court. On Sept 24, he pleaded guilty to five of the 35 charges he faced, in a surprising twist, at what would have been the start of his trial.