SINGAPORE – A man with a history of committing violent offences, including robbery, assaulted his wife with a knife a few months after he was released from prison.
The Singaporean committed the assault in September 2020 while still under a remission order, which required him to stay out of trouble from Feb 22, 2020, to Jan 19, 2021.
The man, who cannot be named due to a gag order to protect his wife’s identity, also committed rioting in April 2021 and illegally left Singapore by boat later.
He was arrested in Indonesia over unrelated offences in May 2023 and was sent back to Singapore after serving his detention there. Details about these offences were not disclosed in court documents.
He was finally charged in a Singapore court in December 2024.
On Feb 26, the 39-year-old man was sentenced to five years of corrective training – a severe prison regime aimed at tackling recalcitrant offenders. He was also ordered to receive six strokes of the cane.
Corrective training is imposed when the court finds that an offender needs a substantial period for reformation.
It involves the confinement of a repeat offender for at least five years and up to a maximum of 14 years.
The man had pleaded guilty to multiple charges including two counts of rioting and one count of assault.
Without revealing details, Deputy Public Prosecutor Darren Ang said that in 2004, the offender was placed on probation for 1½ years for rioting.
He was later ordered to undergo reformative training in 2007 for robbery.
