Singapore - A Singapore court on Tuesday sentenced a serial molester who preyed on children and teenagers in lifts to nine years in jail, media reports said.

Ong Wee Siong, 27, who admitted to six charges, will also be caned 18 times, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper said.

The married man followed his victims, girls aged between 8 and 17, into the lifts and then molested them, it said.

Ten years earlier, Ong, a former clothing store manager, was sentenced to three years in jail and six cane strokes for similar offences, the report said. (dpa)