Man boarded taxi with other passengers and assaulted cabby; jailed a month
Published on Nov 6, 2014 6:09 PM
By Ian Poh
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SINGAPORE - A 21-year-old man assaulted a cabby who had picked up other passengers, boarding the taxi anyway and throwing punches at him as he drove off.
Shane Chia Chih Wei hit the rear bumper of Mr Yeo Tze Phern's vehicle to stop him from driving off and entered in the back, where the two women were seated. He scolded and attacked Mr Yeo from behind, leaving the 52-year-old with bruises in the head and needing six days of medical leave.
On Thursday, Chia, then a full-time national serviceman, was sentenced to one month in jail for hurting the cabby on Feb 10 last year.
But his overall prison term comes up to a year, after the court ordered the one month sentence to run at the same time as a separate 12-month term for grievously hurting a 21-year-old woman with a glass cup over a dispute at a party.
