Prison, caning for the man who cut the 64 -year -old woman, several times in the robbery attempt

Singapore – A homeless man who could not work in Singapore, while on a student’s passage, attacked a 64 -year -old woman with a razor blade during a robbery attempt, causing more wounds on her neck and arms.

Indian Singh national Shamsher, which turns 27 on March 5, committed the crime in Mountbatten Road in November 2022, And he ran away from the stage with an empty hand.

The victim from Singapore, who then worked as a retailer, alerted the police after the attack.

She was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and received 30 days of hospitalization leave. The woman could not follow her Daily routine for 63 days.

After a trial, Singh was convicted of a painful injury number to the woman while trying to commit robbery.

He also pleaded guilty for two unrelated charges – a number of theft and voluntarily causing a serious injury to a teenager.

On March 4, he was sentenced to 8½ years in prison, 12 reed blows and a $ 1,000 fine.

In previous procedures, Deputy Prosecutor Tung Shou Pin told the district judge Lim Haw that the victim, who was on his way home from November 10, 2022, took the bus service 31 at a bus stop near the Singapore Association, around 20.30.

DPP Tung added that Singh was sitting at the bus station when he saw the woman walking a bridge over the nearby head, while he wanted to cross the opposite side of the road.

The yard heard that the woman’s legs were too weak to walk on the stairs of the bridge on top.

The prosecutor said Singh then removed a disposable razor and opened it.

He held it on the discreet laugh in his right hand, pinching between his index finger and thumb.

The victim descended from the elevator, and Singh drove it after taking the stairs on the bridge on top.

DPP Tung told Judge Lim: “The victim did it about halfway … Suddenly, the accused grabbed him from behind and covered his mouth with his left hand. He grabbed it so tightly that he could not move freely.

“The victim fought immediately, but the accused cut his neck with laughter in his right hand before he could be released … He repeatedly asked for money … before he could pay, he repeatedly cut his arms.”

The victim continued to fight and managed to pull Singh’s hood, to dig up his hood, which he quickly pulled to hide his face.

As they slammed, the victim’s face mask fell, and she shouted, “Thief!”

The judicial documents said that Singh covered the woman’s mouth with his hand to silence it, but she bit him to make her release her tightness.

DPP said Singh and bitten his wrist before throwing the shaver on the bridge and ran.

The woman alerted the police, and the officers arrested Singh when he was with his friend at East Coast Park around 2.20 the next day.

During the trial, Singh did not deny to be at the air bridge and acknowledged that it caused discounts on the victim’s arms.

However, he claimed to be defended against the victim, who was supposed to attacked him first.

Singh said he had finished lessons at Trent Global College in Mountbatten Square around 4:00 pm on the day of the attack. Then he knew his girlfriend at Tekka Center in Little India.

He claimed that he had later returned to Mountbatten Road and climbed the bridge on top, where he met the victim, and his right hand “accidentally brushed his right hand” when he passed.

Singh said he apologized to the woman, but threw vulgarities and racial insults.

He confessed that a dive broke out between them, and he “spinned” a razor to the left arm of the victim before running away from the scene.

Sainking that the victim was a credible witness, DPP said Singh should have gone to the police to complain about the supposed victim’s assault on him.

“The accused had the blocking to spin an unsecible story, that the victim, a fragile elder, attacked him so viciously that he had to cut her with a laugh,” he added.

In a unrelated case, Singh, who was represented by lawyer Ranjit Singh, assaulted a 17-year-old boy in September 2022 and caused a fracture at the left hand wrist.

A period between September 29 and October 10, 2022, Singh stole a clock worth about $ 519 from her homemade woman.

After he moved, He sent a WhatsApp message on October 10, 2022, and she saw that he was wearing the clock in his profile picture.

She faced him and he promised to return to her. She alerted the police on October 24 that year, when she failed to keep her word.

• Shaffiq Alkhatib is the correspondent of the Straits Times Court, which mainly covers criminal cases heard at the state courts.

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