by Elena Chong
HE THREW a stool at his girlfriend in a hotel room, kicked and
punched her repeatedly.
Saifullizan Ali, 25, also grabbed hold of Ms Nur Faizah
Mohamed's hair and used a lighter to burn her hair. Two days later,
when the 19-year-old girl went to see a doctor, she was found to
have five broken ribs and multiple bruises all over her body.
Saifullizan admitted causing grievous hurt and causing hurt by
dangerous means to his girlfriend at Hotel 81 Star in Geylang at
about 2am on Nov 21 2010.
About an hour earlier near Raffles Place MRT Station, he had
beaten her by kicking, punching, banging her head against the wall,
elbowing her back and choking her.
He also admitted to pulling her by the hair, choking her and
punching her on the stomach, at the void deck of Block 620 Bukit
Batok Central on Sept 16.
On Thursday, he was sentenced to a total of 17 months' jail for
violence on the victim and stealing a $528 mobile phone from a
Korean woman at Rock Shop in Hard Rock Hotel, Resorts World
Sentosa, in March. Eight other charges were taken into
consideration.
