Spared: No jail time for road-rage offender
Published on Apr 27, 2012
Tiang, who has back and spinal problems, was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and given a one-year driving ban for hurting a dog trainer in 2010. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Elena Chong
A road-rage offender escaped jail after a district judge on Thursday exercised judicial mercy and imposed the maximum fine of $5,000 and a one-year driving ban.
District Judge May Mesenas took into consideration the exceptional circumstances in this case, primarily the man's medical condition. The normal punishment for a convicted road-rage offender is a jail sentence.
Retired businessman Sunny Tiang Thian Oon, 56, who was seated in a wheelchair in court on Thursday, suffers from depression as well as back and spinal problems, among other things.
He was found guilty last November of hurting dog trainer Patrick Wong, 53, in June 2010.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
