Road Rage - Unequal Treatment?

[Forexter]

Singapore Court: Foreign expat escaped jail term after brutal assault on Singaporean student

 

Photo from The Straits Times

 

A foreign expat from England, Alan Benjamin Maybury, has been excused jail term for his brutal assault on a 19-year-old Singaporean student. At 1.30am on the morning of 30 Nov 2014, the 34-year-old former consultant was travelling in a taxi with his Singaporean wife along South Buona Vista Road. 19-year-old Singaporean polytechnic student Lum Kwok Weng was driving in the opposite direction and lost control of his vehicle when he approached a sharp bend and crashed into the taxi.

Alan Maybury then got out of the taxi and started shouting expletives at Lum Kwok Weng, and began brutally punching the student in the face several times. He was only stopped when a motorist confronted him and called the police. The victim suffered swelling on the right side of his mouth with a visible cut.

However in a weird twist of event, the Deputy Public Prosecutor Mansoor Amir actually spoke on behalf of the aggressor and merely asked for “an appropriate fine”. The Government prosecutor actually faulted the accident for the attack:

 

“It was the accident that caused the accused’s momentary outburst of violence.”
Currently, all punching-related road-rage assault cases involving Singaporeans as an aggressor have resulted in a jail term. The Singapore judiciary have always emphasized on a jail sentence to deter road rage incidents, but clearly isn’t applicable in this case. The sentencing of Alan Maybury have fueled discussions of unequal treatment against Singaporeans and preference treatment for foreigners from the Singapore judiciary.

 

[Vid]

AMTK. You first day in Singapore?

[Getzsfv]

CCB AMDK

[Mockngbrd]

ANG MORE MAH


Sinkapore lang go jail go cane liao la

Edited January 15, 2016 by Mockngbrd

[Weez911]

[Beregond]

CAN I post this?

 

: we v---- for it...

[Mustank]

amdk = momentary outburst of violence, righteous anger, vigilante hero who knock some sense into the scums of society,  ,   

 

local = road rage, siao lang, send him to jail long long, cane him, take away his licence, no mercy, waste money feed these type of losers in jail, must be pui pui loser of society, kiam pah bin    

 

why ah?

[Lala81]

Not that i condone the road rage, but the angmoh was taking the cab which kana accident from a si ginah driver who obviously dunno what the f**k he was doing.

 

At the very least I'm sure any of us would have been furious esp if our family was in the cab.

[Mason016]

amdk = momentary outburst of violence, righteous anger, vigilante hero who knock some sense into the scums of society,  ,   

 

local = road rage, siao lang, send him to jail long long, cane him, take away his licence, no mercy, waste money feed these type of losers in jail, must be pui pui loser of society, kiam pah bin    

 

why ah?

 

We seem to be  notoriously poor at defend ourselves from an assault.    Sad.

[Porker]

Not that i condone the road rage, but the angmoh was taking the cab which kana accident from a si ginah driver who obviously dunno what the f**k he was doing.

 

At the very least I'm sure any of us would have been furious esp if our family was in the cab.

 

How sure are you that that "si ginnah" driver obviously don't know what the f**k he was doing?

[Mustank]

We seem to be  notoriously poor at defend ourselves from an assault.    Sad.

 

amdk =  ,

 

local =  ,

 

 

 

 

how to compare?

[Ahseng]

if reversal of roles, Si ginna in cab, amdk did the lost control and crash into cab. 
Si ginna hood AMDK..

 

I'm pretty sure si ginna ass would be in jail.

[Endurance201]

 

Singapore Court: Foreign expat escaped jail term after brutal assault on Singaporean student

 

Photo from The Straits Times

 

 

 

 

A foreign expat from England, Alan Benjamin Maybury, has been excused jail term for his brutal assault on a 19-year-old Singaporean student. At 1.30am on the morning of 30 Nov 2014, the 34-year-old former consultant was travelling in a taxi with his Singaporean wife along South Buona Vista Road. 19-year-old Singaporean polytechnic student Lum Kwok Weng was driving in the opposite direction and lost control of his vehicle when he approached a sharp bend and crashed into the taxi.

Alan Maybury then got out of the taxi and started shouting expletives at Lum Kwok Weng, and began brutally punching the student in the face several times. He was only stopped when a motorist confronted him and called the police. The victim suffered swelling on the right side of his mouth with a visible cut.

However in a weird twist of event, the Deputy Public Prosecutor Mansoor Amir actually spoke on behalf of the aggressor and merely asked for “an appropriate fine”. The Government prosecutor actually faulted the accident for the attack:

“It was the accident that caused the accused’s momentary outburst of violence.”

Currently, all punching-related road-rage assault cases involving Singaporeans as an aggressor have resulted in a jail term. The Singapore judiciary have always emphasized on a jail sentence to deter road rage incidents, but clearly isn’t applicable in this case. The sentencing of Alan Maybury have fueled discussions of unequal treatment against Singaporeans and preference treatment for foreigners from the Singapore judiciary.

 

Deputy Public Prosecutor Mansoor Amir is ang moh too????

 

“It was the accident that caused the accused’s momentary outburst of violence.”

 

Meaning nowadays road rage no need go jail liao. AMTK!

[Mustank]

if reversal of roles, Si ginna in cab, amdk did the lost control and crash into cab. 

Si ginna hood AMDK..

 

I'm pretty sure si ginna ass would be in jail.

 

that time is:

 

amdk = momentarily lost of control of car, too much work weighing over poor amdk, come come sayang sayang

 

local = si ginna!!!! never die before ah!!! send to jail, thow away the key, cane 24 strokes deep deep

[Myxilplix]

Since when Singapore got equal treatment for everyone?

[F355]

This AMDK is only a passenger yet flew into this kind of rage . If he was the driver , I think si ginna up lorry liao .

[Lala81]

How sure are you that that "si ginnah" driver obviously don't know what the f**k he was doing?

 

19-year-old Singaporean polytechnic student Lum Kwok Weng was driving in the opposite direction and lost control of his vehicle when he approached a sharp bend and crashed into the taxi.

 

 

 

Erm ok, lost control and crash into the cab from opposite direction doesn't qualify?

[Fcw75]

So with just a fine, does he have a criminal record? Read that he's jobless now.

 

No worries, his Singaporean wife can feed him.