Singapore man threatens to slit wife’s throat, kill their baby – gets 3 months’ jail

The 27-year-old had been ‘provoked’ by his wife shouting vulgarities at him while he was on a video call with his brother, his lawyer said

District Judge Eddy Tham accepted that the man’s actions were done in the ‘spur of the moment’ but said that a deterrent sentence was needed

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Under Singapore law, the man could have been jailed for up to two years for criminal intimidation, or twice that amount as the offence was committed against someone with whom he was in a close relationship. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 9:25am, 25 Mar 2024Updated: 10:08am, 25 Mar 2024

Angry that his wife had told him to keep quiet after he spoke loudly on the phone as their baby slept, a man in Singapore held a kitchen knife to her throat and threatened to kill the child if she left home.

The 24-year-old man was sentenced to three months’ jail after pleading guilty to criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt.

The name of the man and his wife cannot be published to protect the identity of the couple’s children.

On May 14 last year, just over two months after the young couple got married, the 21-year-old woman was at home with her husband and their baby girl who was asleep in the bedroom.

The court heard that as her husband was speaking “very loudly” on the phone, his wife told him to “shut up”.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Chye Jer Yuan said that the man took a knife from the kitchen and put the blunt side of the blade to his wife’s throat, saying that he would cut her.

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