Singapore jails woman who burned man with boiling hotpot liquid, causing injuries to almost a third of his body
- Lim Si Hui, 33, was sentenced to four years’ jail for flipping a pot of boiling soup on Martin Boey
- Boey sustained burns to 29 per cent of his body, briefly lost consciousness and required four skin grafts, and is likely to suffer permanent scarring
A woman who flipped a pot of boiling hot soup onto a man, causing him to suffer burns to nearly a third of his body, was sentenced to four years’ jail on Thursday.
Lim Si Hui, 33, pleaded guilty earlier on January 2 to voluntarily causing grievous hurt by means of a heated substance.
Another charge for voluntarily causing hurt to the same victim by slapping him three times was taken into consideration during sentencing.
Lim and the victim Martin Boey started arguing just before 11pm on April 19 in 2022 after Lim’s mobile phone was purportedly damaged by Boey. Court documents do not state if the two know each other.
Police were called by a member of the public after Lim slapped Boey out of anger at a local Singapore bar. They later moved outside to talk things out.