Singapore police warn Facebook user over ‘threat’ to throw egg at law minister

The 21-year-old who said he wanted to egg K Shanmugam is already serving a three-year prison sentence for unconnected drug offences

In March last year, he posted on Facebook that he would like to emulate the actions of an Australian teen who had hit a senator with an egg

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Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Singapore's law and home affairs minister, pictured in 2018. Photo: AFP

Published: 11:59am, 12 Mar 2020Updated: 1:34pm, 12 Mar 2020

A 21-year-old Singaporean man has received a 12-month conditional warning after he wrote on Facebook in March last year that he wanted to throw an egg at Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, the police said.

In a media statement on Wednesday, the police said that they also issued an advisory to a 48-year-old Singaporean man who provided information on where Shanmugam would be, in a reply to the first man’s comment.

Under Singapore law, a conditional warning means that if the offender commits the same offence again within the allotted time period both the new offence and the old one can be dealt with in court.

The 21-year-old was arrested for consumption and possession of cannabis and drug-taking utensils in 2017 and served a 12-month sentence in the Singapore Armed Forces’ Detention Barracks, the police said.

The 21-year-old was convicted of psychoactive substance use last year. Photo: Shutterstock

While investigations into the Facebook comment were ongoing last year, the man committed more drug offences connected to the abuse of new psychoactive substances.