Andrew Wong<\/strong> During a heated argument with his friend, a man pulled out a knife and stabbed his friend twice in public, leaving the victim with a wound\u00a0so deep that there was\u00a0a laceration on his liver.<\/p>\n Mohamed Sufian Mohamed Sabri was on June 16 sentenced to a jail term of nine months and 19 days<\/a> after pleading guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing hurt.<\/p>\n Court documents show that the 53-year-old offender and the victim, 57, were known to each other. The pair would often meet with their mutual friends at a restaurant in Tampines Central 1.<\/p>\n On Dec 18, 2025, the pair met up at\u00a0the\u00a0restaurant with their friends and got into an argument with each other before parting ways. The nature of the argument was not disclosed.<\/p>\n The next day, Sufian spotted the victim eating with another friend inside the restaurant.<\/p>\n Sufian and the victim exchanged words outside the eatery and it escalated into a physical altercation.<\/p>\n The offender then pulled out a knife with a 13cm blade and stabbed his friend twice \u2013 once in his left forearm and once in his back, before dropping the knife and running away.<\/p>\n The injured man tried to give chase but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n Passers-by called the police when they found the bloodied man near Tampines MRT. He was sent to Changi General Hospital.<\/p>\n Deputy Public Prosecutor Yeo Kee Hwan\u00a0said that the blood loss resulted in the victim being in a state of confusion at the time of surgical intervention.<\/p>\n He was hospitalised for four days.<\/p>\n Yeo had sought for an uplift in Sufian\u2019s sentence as he had previously been sentenced to six months in jail on July 16, 2025, for possessing a karambit knife \u2013 which is a knife with a small, curved blade \u2013 at the same location.<\/p>\n Yeo\u00a0argued that the present case represented an escalation in Sufian\u2019s offending behaviour, as he not only possessed a knife in public again but had\u00a0also\u00a0gone on to use the weapon to stab another man.<\/p>\n Those found guilty of voluntarily causing hurt can be jailed\u00a0for\u00a0up to three years, fined up to $5,000, or both.<\/p>\n Have something to say? Join in!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Explore more on these topics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n See something interesting? Contribute<\/a> your story to us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Straits Times<\/strong>
June 17, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n
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