SINGAPORE – Before heading to a bar for drinks in Cuscaden Road, a man told his friend to bring a weapon as fights occasionally broke out at the watering hole. By the end of that night in June 2022, the same man had planted a harpoon into a stranger’s back after an argument broke out between them.
On March 15, Sheran Raj Balasubramaniam, 24, was sentenced to three years and seven months’ jail, and ordered to receive 10 strokes of the cane.
He had pleaded guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a dangerous weapon, and another charge over a separate incident where he carried an offensive weapon in a public place.
During sentencing, District Judge Paul Chan noted that this was not Sheran Raj’s first brush with the law, pointing out previous violent offences and a stint in the Reformative Training Centre. He did not elaborate on his previous offences.
“He has had a warning about not committing such offences before, but he has not heeded those warnings,” Judge Chan said…
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