{"id":31623,"date":"2026-02-25T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31623"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:06:37","slug":"jail-fine-for-man-after-scuffle-with-neighbour-over-parking-outside-landed-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31623","title":{"rendered":"Jail, fine for man after scuffle with neighbour over parking outside landed property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->A man who scuffled with his neighbour over a longstanding parking dispute in a landed estate was sentenced to a week in jail and fined $7,500 on Feb\u00a024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Seah Chin Leong, 43, who has since moved to another property, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-admits-to-getting-into-scuffle-with-neighbour-after-parking-dispute-outside-landed-property?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">pleaded guilty on Feb 9<\/p>\n<p><\/a> to offences including harassment and fighting in a public place. A total of 14 other charges, including multiple counts of harassment, were considered during his sentencing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In earlier proceedings, Assistant Public Prosecutor Chye Jer Yuan told the court that Seah and his family moved into a house near\u00a0Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1\u00a0in or around July 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">His neighbour Neo Shi Ming, 37, lived in a house nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The prosecution had described Neo as a co-accused, but court documents did not\u00a0say\u00a0whether he had been charged or dealt with earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shortly before 3am on Aug 1, 2024, Seah confronted Neo over the parking of the latter\u2019s\u00a0vehicle\u00a0outside Seah\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A scuffle then broke out between the two men, and Neo\u2019s sister alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Around 12.45am on Nov 5 that year, Seah threw two glass bottles from his house towards a car belonging to Neo\u2019s father, which was parked on a road outside Seah\u2019s house.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">One of the bottles struck the right rear passenger side, damaging a door panel and a low skirt panel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The cost of the repair was around $900, according to the quotation provided, the APP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Neo made a police report shortly after 1am that day, saying he had caught his neighbour throwing glass bottles at the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The following month, he alerted the police again,\u00a0saying his neighbour had kicked his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Feb 22, 2025, Seah was seen burning joss paper in a bin on a road outside his home  around 3.30am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Concerned the flames were near a car belonging to the Neo family, a person, who was not named in court documents, used a garden spray to douse the burning joss paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A dispute then broke out, during which Seah used a metal stick to hit the Neo family\u2019s gate. The estimated cost to replace the gate was between $1,000 and $2,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Seah was arrested on May 6, 2025, and he has since paid more than $3,000 for the damage caused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">His bail was set at $15,000 on Feb 24, and he is expected to begin serving his sentence on March 4. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/jail-fine-for-man-after-scuffle-with-neighbour-over-parking-outside-landed-property\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who scuffled with his neighbour over a longstanding parking dispute in a landed estate was sentenced to a week in jail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}