Cleaner gets 10 months' jail for hitting wife
By Alvina Soh | Posted: 21 December 2011 1613 hrs
SINGAPORE: A 45-year-old cleaner with a string of brushes with the law for violent behaviour has been sentenced to 10 months' jail for hitting his wife even though she has a personal protection order against him.
Anandan Palnisamy Manikam was also found guilty of other offences, including kicking his nine-year-old nephew and threatening to hurt his neighbour's children.
The court heard that at about midnight on September 20 last year, Palnisamy, who was not living with his wife, went to her house when he was drunk.
The tall and thin man hurled vulgarities at her and became angry when he was asked to leave.
He grabbed his wife's neck and pushed her against a shelf in the room.
He then removed the electrical cables from a DVD player and used them to hit her on the back.
In May 2009, he got angry when he saw his nine-year-old nephew, who was living with his wife, playing with water in the toilet.
He kicked the boy's face and right leg, causing the boy to bleed profusely from the nose.
Two months later, he was involved in a spat with a neighbour.
He threatened to throw her children down the stairs of the block in Havelock Road.
Palnisamy also swore at a police officer on an another occasion in May 2009.
- CNA/cc
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
