only 4 yrs jail for causing this kind of injury?

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FT & PR no need NS lor.

Yeah no ns but still the body's muscle tone shouldn't look like that, if he looks like that at 24 how would he look like at 60?

 

[RonRon]

By Pearly Tan
The New Paper
Friday, Nov 04, 2011
For him, it will be over in four years.

But I will never be the person I used to be.

This was how Malaysian Kee Yau Chong, 23, compared his situation to that of the man who set him on fire.

In an interview in his third-storey home in Hougang Avenue 6, he said in Mandarin: "Of course, I hate him, but what good will that do? My body and arms will still be burnt. "I can only accept what I've become, that I am now useless."


Kuu Siau Lam, 65, was sentenced to four years' jail on Monday for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Mr Kee at their workplace, SH Indeco, at Senang Crescent in Bedok on June 11.

Mr Kee had accidentally bumped into Kuu and did not apologise. The two carpenters got into a heated argument. Then Kuu splashed thinner on Mr Kee and set him ablaze.

The incident has changed Mr Kee's life completely, said his sister, Madam Kee Gek Peng.

The 37-year-old quality assurance inspector said her brother used to take pictures of himself on his mobile phone all the time.

But now, he can barely look at himself in the mirror.

"He used to care so much about how he looked that he would spend hours applying gel to his hair and dressing up," Madam Kee said.

"Now he can't even put on clothes by himself, and it makes him very irritated."

Madam Kee showed The New Paper some pictures of her brother before the fire.

In them, Mr Kee was slim and neatly dressed, with his hair stylishly combed. And he seemed to enjoy posing in front of the camera.

But yesterday, the shy Mr Kee was dressed only in a pair of shorts and often kept his face averted from the camera.

Madam Kee said that her brother has always been reserved, but that he loved to sing and used to go for karaoke sessions in Johor Baru, Malaysia, with his friends every other week.

This, too, has changed.

Mr Kee said: "My friends still ask me to go for karaoke sessions, but I don't want to go."

Madam Kee said he has even told his friends from Malaysia not to visit him.

His family used to hear Mr Kee singing along the corridor on his way home and while in the shower.

Madam Kee added that the family has not even heard him hum a tune since the tragedy.

Mr Kee said he used to spend only a few hours playing computer games and watching anime online in the past. Now he spends all his time doing so.

He said: "I either use the computer or sleep. There's nothing else to do."

Family members say Mr Kee no longer steps out of his house except to go to the hospital for treatment.

Madam Kee said: "He will not go out even if we go as a family. He just wants to stay home."

She and her husband, Mr Yau Yock Chai, 39, an engineer, are worried for Mr Kee; he is quieter now and his temper has got worse.

"He now gets angry at the smallest things because he cannot do things himself," she said.

As Madam Kee and Mr Yau work during the day, Mr Kee's 64-year-old mother helps him with his daily activities.

She helps him to bathe and put on his clothes as his burnt fingers cannot be straightened for now. But the independent Mr Kee insists on eating by himself.

Throughout the hour-long interview, Mr Kee picked and wiped away pus from his wounds with tissue paper from time to time.

And when asked if his wounds were itchy, he replied softly that they weren't, but the skin was peeling off.

Despite repeated encouragement from Madam Kee to talk about what happened that fateful day, he declined, saying: "I really don't want to talk about it."

He kept his gaze mostly on his computer screen and avoided making eye contact with anyone.

Occasionally, he would try to move his badly burnt left arm and hands, trembling vigorously from the effort.

When asked if he regretted not apologising to Kuu after bumping into him, he said: "Yes, of course."

Madam Kee said she had watched CCTV footage of the incident.

She said that from the footage, it seemed like her brother had brushed against Kuu while they were working at their respective workstations.

The two men later quarrelled and Kuu retrieved a mug of thinner, which he then splashed on Mr Kee before setting him on fire with a lighter.

Then, Kuu placed his hands on his waist and watched for a few seconds before leaving the workshop. Court papers revealed that the bare-bodied Kuu later returned with his shirt on and left again with his bicycle.

He was later arrested at a coffee shop at Toa Payoh Lorong 1 after an islandwide search .

Mr Kee, who suffered 28 per cent total body surface area burns to his face, trunk and upper limbs, was warded at the Burns Unit at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for 46 days.

He underwent multiple operations and was told that there would be permanent scars.

Madam Kee feels partly responsible for what happened to her brother as she had found the job for him.

With a wry smile, she said: "He used to work in a hardware shop at Kovan, but the hours were long and he quit after two years.

"After he rested for a month, I encouraged him to get a job. When I saw the job posting for a carpenter in the newspapers, I told him about it and asked him to try it out."

She added that Mr Kee would be returning to SGH today for a review on whether he could undergo surgery to insert metal pieces to straighten his fingers.

The incident has placed a huge financial strain on the family.

Said Madam Kee: "We have chalked up about $110,000 in medical bills so far, and he will have to undergo more surgery.

"We just hope for his condition to stabilise and will consider taking him to Malaysia for physiotherapy in future. We cannot afford to continue treating his injuries here."

 

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Re: I Like That

This sounds good. I like that. But, the part about shooting an unarmed guy ... it really depends on the situation ... if it's Gaddafi, Kim Jung Il or the Lees, its okay. Because they are evil. But, for innocent victims ... I don't see it that way. You might have been a police. But, I think you lack a vigilante's heart and mind.

I saw that movie too. I think nobody in US in the 90s missed that movie. Classic Clint Eastwood. Big box office and Oscar winning hit. Why Eastwood went to the bar was because Gene Hackman (town sheriff) had earlier whipped Eastwood's friend Morgan Freeman to death during interrogation, accusing him of being a hired assassin responsible for a murder which actually he backed out from earlier but Eastwood himself carried it out. The one shot by Eastwood was a cowboy who slashed up a prostitute's face in the bar (cum brothel) for giggling that his penis was tiny. For revenge, she put the word out for hired assassin to kill that cowboy.

The bar owner displayed Freeman's body outside the bar with the signage "this is what happens to assassins here." Eastwood went into the bar shot the owner first. Ramseth missed out something after "he should have armed himself." The full quote should be "he should have armed himself if he's decorating his bar with my friend's body." Then he went on shoot the rest involved, Hackman the sheriff and the deputies. One of the greatest movie ever. You should get a DVD of it.