AFTER playing on parents' fears that their child would fail to make it to secondary school, a woman has been jailed for running a bogus tutoring service.

Mr Sukhdev Singh, 44, and his wife were concerned about their son's failing grades at school and decided to engage a tutor to help him pass his upcoming Primary School Leaving Examinations.

They chose the tutor from a flyer placed in the letterbox of a relative.

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