{"id":80157,"date":"2026-08-28T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80157"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:10:08","slug":"man-who-fled-to-malaysia-after-brawl-in-2021-handed-jail-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80157","title":{"rendered":"Man who fled to Malaysia after brawl in 2021 handed jail sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->A man who fled from Singapore to Malaysia in 2021 was on Aug 27 handed a jail sentence for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/over-2-years-jail-for-man-who-restrained-victim-for-his-friends-to-slash-and-beat?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">a brawl he was involved in<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/over-2-years-jail-for-man-who-restrained-victim-for-his-friends-to-slash-and-beat?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\"> <\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/over-2-years-jail-for-man-who-restrained-victim-for-his-friends-to-slash-and-beat?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">five years earlier<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Marcus Yeo Zhen Wei had escaped the authorities by first travelling to Pulau Ubin, before making his way into Malaysia in October 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">But he was caught there the following year over a drug-related offence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 35-year-old was eventually sent back to Singapore in November 2025 before his re-arrest for the brawl that occurred at a Magazine Road club near Havelock Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yeo was sentenced to two years and three weeks\u2019 jail, after he pleaded guilty to offences including assault, performing a rash act, and illegally departing Singapore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The incident happened at around 9.30pm on March 21, 2021, when Yeo and three male friends, who had consumed alcohol, confronted several patrons after accusing them of staring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yeo and his friends flung items including glasses and bottles at the patrons before the club\u2019s bouncers got the four of them to leave the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Instead of leaving, one of Yeo\u2019s friends retrieved a baton from a car and returned to the entrance of the club. Another member of Yeo\u2019s entourage then armed himself with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They then attacked two Vietnamese men leaving the club, and one of Yeo\u2019s friends used the baton to hit them. One of the victims was hit repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Deputy Public Prosecutor Mark Chia told the court that the 30-year-old managed to get away, but doctors at Singapore General Hospital found he had sustained injuries including a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He was given 21 days of medical leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yeo was arrested on March 26, 2021, and kept in custody for six days. He was slated to appear in court in November that year, but while out on bail, he decided to leave Singapore illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority prosecutor, Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Wong Wai Yuen, told the court that Yeo went to Pulau Ubin in October 2021 and took a boat to Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Without revealing details, the DSP said that the Malaysian authorities later caught him for a drug-related offence in 2022, and he was sent back to Singapore in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yeo\u2019s three friends, who were involved in the brawl, were dealt with in court earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-who-fled-to-malaysia-after-brawl-in-2021-handed-jail-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who fled from Singapore to Malaysia in 2021 was on Aug 27 handed a jail sentence for a brawl he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73344,"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-80157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80157","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=80157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}