July 18, 2020, 09:08 PM
A 23-year-old NUS student, Yin Zi Qin, has been sentenced to 12 days of detention after injuring his ex-girlfriend last year.
Summary of what happened
The incident started on May 9, 2019 when Yin, a second-year dental student, broke up with the victim over WhatsApp in the morning.
Later that night, Yin wanted to speak to the victim in person and entered the compound of her home on May 9, 2019, using an access card that she passed to him previously.
He informed her that he was at her house, and that he wanted to speak to her.
They met at the basement and entered the victim's bedroom by climbing into her window from an adjacent showroom unit.
Yin wanted to get back together with the victim and presented her with roses but she refused.
Feeling upset, Yin placed his hands on her neck and tried to strangle the victim.
The victim struggled and Yin pressed his thumb against her left eye firmly until it bled.
The victim blacked out but regained consciousness shortly after.
Yin apologised and climbed out of the window as he was told to leave.
But he later turned back to seek forgiveness from the victim's parents as he overheard the victim's mother asking her who had hit her as he was about to go.
The victim's mother called the police subsequently.
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Sentenced to 12 days of detention
According to CNA on July 17, 2020, Yin was sentenced to 12 days of detention.
On top of that, he was also served with a day reporting order for five months with counseling and has to complete 80 hours of community service in a year.
Yin was not given probation as the district judge Marvin Bay considered Yin's age and his rehabilitative prospect.
Bay did not find that Yin has a high risk of re-offending even though he took into account the psychological harm that he had caused to the victim and the anxiety that the family had to go through because of Yin, CNA reported.
For voluntarily causing hurt, he could have been jailed for up to two years, and fined a maximum S$5,000, or both.
Top photo by Matthias Ang.
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