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Admiral Motti
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Jan 13, 2011
Jailed a day and fined for slashing boyfriend
By Khushwant Singh
Koo Yoke Pei, 30, was sentenced to one day in jail and a $5,000 fine. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
FRUSTRATED that his girlfriend had changed her mind about going to Batam with him last June, school manager Daniel Kok Yee Meng, 32, took a knife and pretended to cut himself on his arm in front of her.
When she did not react, he accused her of being interested in another man and slapped her.
Koo Yoke Pei, 30, then a secretary, went into the kitchen, took out another knife and slashed him on the back.
Police were summoned and she was arrested. On Thursday, a district court sentenced Koo to one day in jail and a $5,000 fine.
The divorcee with a nine-year-old daughter and twin sons, aged seven, had pleaded guilty last month.
Then, the court heard that Mr Kok was with Koo in her flat in Maude Road in Jalan Besar at about 2am on June 5 last year.
They had been at a pub earlier.
The couple had quarrelled, and she told him she was not going to accompany him to visit the Indonesian island of Batam.
The argument then escalated and he flew into a rage and slapped her several times. This time, she reacted.
From the kitchen, she took a knife with a 20cm-long blade and slashed him.
A medical report from Tan Tock Seng Hospital indicated he had a shallow 15cm-long cut on his back and four to five abrasions on his forearm.
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