Australian journalist Peter Lloyd was jailed for 10 months Tuesday after pleading guilty to drugs charges in a Singapore court, the national broadcaster ABC reported Tuesday.
Lloyd, 42, ABC's South Asia correspondent, was arrested in July for possession of 0.4 grams of methamphetamine, a drug commonly called ice, dpa reported.
Lloyd had agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of possession in return for the more serious charge of drug trafficking being dropped.
A drug trafficking conviction could have brought him a jail term of 20 years and 15 strokes of the cane.
Lloyd was in Singapore on leave from his post in New Delhi at the time of his arrest.
