By Khushwant Singh
FRUSTRATED that his girlfriend had changed her mind about going
to Batam with him last June, school manager Daniel Kok Yee Meng,
32, took a knife and pretended to cut himself on his arm in front
of her. When she did not react, he accused her of being interested
in another man and slapped her.
Koo Yoke Pei, 30, then a secretary, went into the kitchen, took
out another knife and slashed him on the back.
Police were summoned and she was arrested. On Thursday, a
district court sentenced Koo to one day in jail and a $5,000
fine.
The divorcee with a nine-year-old daughter and twin sons, aged
seven, had pleaded guilty last month. Then, the court heard that Mr
Kok was with Koo in her flat in Maude Road in Jalan Besar at about
2am on June 5 last year. They had been at a pub earlier.
The couple had quarrelled, and she told him she was not going to
accompany him to visit the Indonesian island of Batam.
The argument then escalated and he flew into a rage and slapped
her several times. This time, she reacted. From the kitchen, she
took a knife with a 20cm-long blade and slashed him. A medical
report from Tan Tock Seng Hospital indicated he had a shallow
15cm-long cut on his back and four to five abrasions on his
forearm.
