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In one case, a man threatened his wife with a chopper when he came home drunk. He later burned her clothes in the kitchen. He made the same threat three days earlier when his wife told him she did not have any money to give him. He was sentenced to seven years of preventive detention after he pleaded guilty to criminal intimidation and committing mischief by fire. He also admitted to violating a personal-protection order issued by the court to his wife. In his mitigation plea , he told the court that he would stop drinking and be a good father to his son upon his release.
A man flew into a rage during a family dispute and hurled eight kitchen itmes including a three-litre bottle of cooking oil and a wok out of his sixth-floor window. Other items include a pot, two bottles of soya sauce a claypot and a ladle. Later he assaulted his children. When he left the flat to go downstairs he punched a friend before smashing an altar at a void deck with a chair. He pleaded gulity to three charges of committing a rash act, mischief and for punching his friend. Two other charges of causing hurt to his son and daughter were taken into consideration. He had pushed his daugher causing her to hit her head on the floor and slapped his son on the face. He was jailed three months for the rash act and three weeks for punching Lee and fine $1,000 for mischief.
A man who fractured three of his wife's ribs after he saw love bites on her chest was jailed for 13 months yesterday. He pleaded guilty to grievously hurting his wife. He admitted to two other charges of violating personal-protection orders taken out against him by his wife and their son. Another two similar charges of abusing his two younger sons aged eight and nine were considered by the judge during sentencing. He had suspected that his wife was having an affair. When he saw love-bite marks on her chest, he began to slap and kick her. The wife ran out of the flat and called the police on her mobile phone. She was taken to hospital where she was found to have suffered fractures on three of her ribs, and bruises on her face, neck and head. Pleading for leniency his lawyer said he has last control when he saw the love bites on his wife's chest. He had abused his wife out of frustration as his business was not doing well and he was under a lot of stress. The couple had since divorced and the wife was given custody of their four children.
In another case, a man was fined $1,000 for hitting his wife on the head with the blunt edge of a shopper when they quarreled one night. The court warned the man he would be jailed if he hit her again. The man had previous convictions for fighting and drink-driving. The wife was unhappy when he had come home late after going drinking and they had quarreled. In mitigation, his lawyer said the main was supporting six people, including his 71-year-old mother and two sons, age six and 13, from a previous marriage and a four-month old baby girl from his present wife. The lawyer urged the court to give the man another chance. The wife who was in tears told the judge that it was the first time they had quarreled. She said she had forgiven him and that they were living together harmoniously again. The man looked relieved, wiped away his tears and bowed respectfully to the court for not sending him to jail.
A woman quarreled with her husband over his seeing another woman slashed him with a kitchen knife. The woman took a kitchen knife, punched and cut the husband several times on the back, causing multipled cuts. When he turned around and tried to fend her off with his left hand, he was cut on the thumb. The husband locked himself in the bedroom and called the police. The husband told the court he had forgiven her and did not want her to go to jail. She was fined a maximum sum of $1,000.
Raffleslaw.com
