Woman arrested for slashing man's throat
Police officers and paramedics surrounding a woman sitting on a stretcher. The woman, believed to be a Chinese national, was so distraught after being jilted by her Singaporean lover that she tried to take his life. (Right): A message scrawled outside a flat at Block 520, Ang Mo Kio Ave 5, by a woman. The message said that a man in the flat made her pregnant and jilted her.
The New Paper
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012
SINGAPORE - A woman, believed to be a Chinese national, was so distraught after being jilted by her Singaporean lover that she tried to take his life.
Using a pen knife, the 25-year-old allegedly slashed his neck at his Ang Mo Kio flat.
Chinese language evening daily Lianhe Wanbao reported that neighbours heard a loud commotion from inside the man's flat at Block 520, Ang Mo Kio Ave 5, from about 9am on Friday morning.
While they could not make out exactly what the commotion was about, screams from a woman, saying in Mandarin: "I want your life!" were heard repeatedly by neighbours and passers-by.
She then allegedly took a penknife and cut the man's neck.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, apparently begged her to stop.
In a bid to escape, he ran down about five storeys from his 20th storey flat, leaving a trail of blood along the staircase and in the lift.
The woman had also written, in Chinese, on a wall outside his flat: "You made me pregnant, jilted me... you disappeared... you b******d."
The man is believed to be single, and lives with his mother and sister.
Police said they received a call for assistance around noon.
Both the man and the woman were taken to hospital. They were conscious.
Police are investigating.
The woman has been arrested for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means.
When reporters visited the hospital on Friday evening, the man's neck was bandaged.
His mother, who was with him, said he could not speak because doctors had just operated on him.
"He was lucky. If the cuts had been any deeper the consequences would have been unimaginable," she reportedly said.
She added that she did not know the woman.
