<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>March 16, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>He wanted to hit MP: witness <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->THE man who is accused of threatening MP for Jalan Besar GRC told a customer service officer that 'a hungry man is an angry man'.
Ng Kim Ngweng, 49, also told Mr Tan Chia Yong, 26, that he wanted to complain about his MP, Ms Denise Phua, and asked how could he not 'hit'' her.
He said he was angry when he saw Ms Phua.
Mr Tan, who testified last week, said Ng was shouting throughout the call and he felt intimidated.
'I tried as little as possible to engage him verbally because I was scared that I may fuel his anger. He claimed that Ms Denis Phua, his MP, was not sincere in helping him and that she had insulted him frequently,'' he said in his statement last week.
Mr Tan, who mans the Reach hotline run by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, had called Ng back on Jan 12 after he asked for a Chinese-speaking officer.
Ng had earlier spoken to his colleague, Ms Jessminder Kaur Kangh, 27, who warned Mr Tan that he was very agitated and angry over the phone.
'I recalled that she told me that Mr Ng had referred to the case involving the MP, who got burnt when he talked about wanting to 'hammer' his MP,'' said Mr Tan.
A day before, the MP for Yio Chu Kang, Mr Seng Han Thong, was torched by a former cabby at a community event.
Asked by Deputy Public Prosecutor Imran Abdul Hamid on Monday if he had any concerns about having to testify against Ng, Mr Tan said after reading reports over the weekend about Ng's mental state and that he was a 'vengeful'' person, he was a little frightened.
Mr Tan said he 'avoided looking at him'' while being cross-examined by Ng's assigned lawyer, Ms Goh Siok Leng. He said Ng did say that he wanted to hit Ms Phua in the telephone conversation, which lasted almost an hour.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>He wanted to hit MP: witness <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->THE man who is accused of threatening MP for Jalan Besar GRC told a customer service officer that 'a hungry man is an angry man'.
Ng Kim Ngweng, 49, also told Mr Tan Chia Yong, 26, that he wanted to complain about his MP, Ms Denise Phua, and asked how could he not 'hit'' her.
He said he was angry when he saw Ms Phua.
Mr Tan, who testified last week, said Ng was shouting throughout the call and he felt intimidated.
'I tried as little as possible to engage him verbally because I was scared that I may fuel his anger. He claimed that Ms Denis Phua, his MP, was not sincere in helping him and that she had insulted him frequently,'' he said in his statement last week.
Mr Tan, who mans the Reach hotline run by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, had called Ng back on Jan 12 after he asked for a Chinese-speaking officer.
Ng had earlier spoken to his colleague, Ms Jessminder Kaur Kangh, 27, who warned Mr Tan that he was very agitated and angry over the phone.
'I recalled that she told me that Mr Ng had referred to the case involving the MP, who got burnt when he talked about wanting to 'hammer' his MP,'' said Mr Tan.
A day before, the MP for Yio Chu Kang, Mr Seng Han Thong, was torched by a former cabby at a community event.
Asked by Deputy Public Prosecutor Imran Abdul Hamid on Monday if he had any concerns about having to testify against Ng, Mr Tan said after reading reports over the weekend about Ng's mental state and that he was a 'vengeful'' person, he was a little frightened.
Mr Tan said he 'avoided looking at him'' while being cross-examined by Ng's assigned lawyer, Ms Goh Siok Leng. He said Ng did say that he wanted to hit Ms Phua in the telephone conversation, which lasted almost an hour.
