Lorry driver jailed for threatening cabby with rod, damaging taxi
Published on Jan 19, 2015 2:21 PM
Lorry driver Koh Yong Kwee was sentenced to 29 months' jail for using a metal rod to threaten a taxi driver and hit his vehicle, as well as for cheating offences he committed last year. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Ian Poh
SINGAPORE - A LORRY driver picked a fight with a woman who had stopped a taxi behind his lorry, and then threatened the cabby with what looked like a metal rod.
Koh Yong Kwee, 41, then repeatedly hit Mr Norashid Mohamad Nor's taxi with the rod, which was about one metre long, after the cabby had wound up the window in fear. This caused almost $300 in damage.
On Monday, Koh, who is now jobless, was sentenced to two months' jail for criminally intimidating the 35-year-old cabby in 2013. His total jail term comes to 29 months, after including punishment for cheating offences he committed last year with credit cards stolen from his mother's tenant.
The court heard that in the wee hours of Oct 23, 2013, Mr Norashid had stopped his taxi behind Koh's lorry for the passenger to enter.
