Odd-job worker who stabbed stranger gets shorter jail term after brain haemorrhage
Published on Feb 12, 2015 2:05 PM
By Ian Poh
SINGAPORE - Three days before he was to receive punishment for stabbing a stranger in a coffeeshop, an odd-job worker suffered a brain haemorrhage that needed surgery and left him confined to a wheelchair.
Goh Kheng Seng, who turns 67 on Friday, was meant to be sentenced on Jan 8 this year but his condition meant the date had to be postponed.
He was sentenced to jail of 15 weeks, or about three months, on Thursday for stabbing Mr See Chong Yin, 68, with a pair of scissors on Oct 14 last year. He is expected to be released immediately, after the court also ordered that the term be backdated to Oct 21, when he was first remanded over the incident.
The prosecution had earlier sought more than four months' jail for Goh in view of an earlier offence in June 2003, when he was jailed four months for possessing an offensive instrument.
