PRC jailed for trespassing in suicide scare

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Man jailed for trespassing in suicide scare
By Alvina Soh | Posted: 13 January 2012 1618 hrs

SINGAPORE: A Chinese national, who had threatened suicide at a construction site he had trespassed, was on Friday sentenced to 10 weeks' jail.

Ai Yong Li, 35, had committed the rash act to scare his supervisor into paying him S$15,000.

The former construction worker was found guilty of one charge of criminal trespass for entering the site at Taman Warna on 19 October 2011.

He had climbed the external scaffolding onto the seventh and highest floor without any safety equipment.

An on-site security supervisor spotted him but Ai refused to heed his instructions to come down. Instead, Ai demanded that his former employer, senior project manager Mu Yafei, meet him at the rooftop with S$15,000, or he would jump.

The court heard the money was compensation for work-related injuries Ai had supposedly suffered.

Ai came down only after being handed S$12,000 by Mu, nearly four hours after he first went up the scaffolding.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Zhong Zewei said Ai "had no intention of killing himself but was merely threatening to do so" in order to get his former employer to comply with his demands.

For criminal trespass, Ai could have been jailed three months, fined S$1,500 or both.

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Foreign worker threatens suicide near Holland Village
Lianhe Wanbao

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A foreign worker created a commotion at a construction site near Holland Village yesterday.

The four-hour drama happened at Taman Warna at about noon, when a 35-year-old construction worker climbed to the top of construction scaffoldings and began shouting in the heavy rain.

According to a co-worker, the Chinese national worker had skipped lunch and gone to sit alone at the top of the scaffoldings.

The co-worker said, "It was raining heavily at the time. He was ranting about wanting to kill himself, so we quickly asked the supervisor to call the police."

The co-worker explained that the man was recently injured at work and had tried to get compensation from the company but his claim was rejected.

"When the police and Civil Defence arrived, the man gestured repeatedly to his waist. That could be where he was hurt," said the co-worker.

According to witnesses, the man was perched in a very precarious position at the time and could have fallen to his death at any moment.

Work was also halted at the construction site while the police deployed a negotiator to talk to the agitated man. The boss in charge of the construction project also showed up to speak to the worker.

It took four hours before the man willingly climbed down from the scaffoldings. He was then arrested on charges of attempted suicide.

Source: Lianhe Wanbao, 20 October 2011.

 

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Ai told police he never intended to kill himself, but wanted to scare his employer. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE​

 

[Pervert]

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