Off-duty protection officer jailed for assaulting 69-year-old man
Published on Jul 04, 2013
An off-duty Certis Cisco protection officer was jailed for four weeks on Thursday, July 4, 2013, for punching and kicking a 69-year-old man at a coffeeshop. -- ST POSED PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN
By Elena Chong
An off-duty Certis Cisco protection officer was jailed for four weeks on Thursday for punching and kicking a 69-year-old man at a coffeeshop.
Jay Prakash Jageshwar Rai, 48, had admitted to causing hurt to retiree Ngoh Jat Peng at Block 280 Bishan Street 24 on March 11 last year.
A court heard that Mr Ngoh was having breakfast at the coffeeshop that morning when he commented to his friend in Hainanese that Prakash and his friends were drinking early in the morning and smoking at a non-smoking area. Prakash had been drinking with his friends at the next table for a few hours.
When Prakash noticed this, he became angry and started to scold the victim with vulgarities, including a vulgarity which involved the victim's mother. The victim asked Prakash why he scolded his mother.
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