Ex-teen actor starts jail term for insubordination in NS

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Jan 8, 2008

Ex-teen actor starts jail term for insubordination in NS

By David Boey

FORMER teen actor Marcus Ng Yi Loong, 21, began his one-week jail term on Tuesday after he failed in his appeal to get the sentence for insubordination quashed.

 

The High Court on Tuesday upheld the jail sentence meted out by a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) court martial in July last year. He was also reprimanded by a Military Court of Appeal for being rude to his superior.

 

This is the second time he has been hauled up since he started his military service in September 2006.

 

Ng, who holds the rank of Private, is perhaps best-known as the rebellious teen in the TV sitcom Phua Chu Kang.

 

Ng's troubles in the SAF began in October 2006 when his superiors at the SAF Medical Training Institute slapped him with four charges for offences including not obeying orders.

 

In February last year, while he was being investigated by the SAF legal process, Ng chased and argued aggressively with a 50-year-old woman Warrant Officer in his unit's Operations Room.

 

A Master Warrant Officer, a trained Commando, saw the altercation and intervened.

 

Ng rudely shrugged off the Master Warrant Officer's hand when he tried to calm the Private.

 

For this, Ng faced two more charges: one for insubordinate behaviour after the Operations Room argument, and another for improper conduct.

 

Last July, an SAF court martial found him guilty of these charges and sentenced him to seven days jail at the SAF Detention Barracks for each charge.

 

Unhappy with the sentence, Ng lodged a Notice of Appeal - a legal right for all SAF serviceman to seek redress - and was granted a hearing by a five-person panel chaired by Justice Choo Han Teck.

 

In the meantime, Ng was fined $500 for two of the earlier charges and acquitted on the other charges.

 

On Tuesday, Ng's defence lawyer, Mr Wendell Wong from Drew & Napier, said a jail term was 'the harshest punishment I've ever seen for this sort of offence'' and urged the panel to quash the convictions or impose a fine instead.

 

But Mr Luke Tan, head of Military Law at the Ministry of Defence, argued: 'This is akin to a case where a person is on bail. Has he learnt anything from it? No, he goes one up and goes after two other officers.'

 

'It would be inappropriate to give a little slap on the risk by imposing a fine as that would be of little consequence to him.''

 

Some 25 people, including Ng's mother, Madam Florence Tan, 58, were in court when the panel reached a unanimous decision to uphold the first charge and reduce the second sentence to a reprimand.

 

He appeared teary-eyed when led away to begin his sentence.

 

[UncleWolve]

Steady lah marcus!

[Donut]

he looks like a faggot who will be ass-banged in DB for sure......

 

his skin fair fair smooth smooth with a girlie face.... sure kena raped in jail...

 

good, he deserves it....

[Keithhiap]

is ok la, he is a 'star' afterall, just like MR LEE incident, also can get awards.

 

no biggy la

[Puffer_fish]

He got balls i respect him, i hard a F@:@} HARD time in army too, i understand how dark it is in there

[Zanter]

Cos he superstar so can ya ya mah

[So_nice]

 

up for the balls.

[Donut]

a star?

 

those baddies in jail will made him a real porn star in his cell, man.........

 

this kind of guy, very easily kena bullied by those hard cores in jail.......

[Donut]

what so f**king hard abt army life?

 

u just have to follow orders and just do what yr buddies are doing.... that's all.

 

unless u wan to act hero and speak too loud, then u will kena....

 

if u keep low profile and follow the crowd, nothing will happen to you.......

[Mzrmazda3]

This teaches us cannot bring one's character in the making of a movie, film or drama to real life

 

Lagi worse is that he is in the army with the lowest rank

Edited January 8, 2008 by Mzrmazda3

[Dynaway]

not everyone like u can take tat kind of nonsense sh!t..... get treated like a dog or a clown....

 

i cannot stand the way some stupid sergant treat his own men, i suay suay happen to meet some really CMI ppl especially my PC & PS.... everyday come n make ppl look like a clown n they start laffing off loudly.....i wonder wat do they gain for doing tat....

 

everyone is there jus to serve their stupid time..... everyone also got parent.....why abuse the power n make fun of others..

 

during my NS days, my buddy happen to be a "not so bright"(mentally slow) guy.... everytime gets bully because he's slow in learning etc... last to finish everything.... i was wondering why do we have to go thru all this nonsense for wat? his inability to learn/memerise things fast, does he really need to get those kind of treatment like being ask to tell the whole company he's a kuniang.. wtf....

 

this society.... majority is 欺善怕惡 type.... some ppl got angkong, no need to do weekend guard duty.... damn crap..

 

yeah u may have guess it rite... i got charged quite a number of times...... its a crap organisation.... wayang sh!t

[Kent]

but u never go db wat, cos u white horse

[Meecar]

if your last statement is true then your avatar should not be honda but saf instead

 

keep cool

 

we went through worse than you

[Dynaway]

shhh.... dun tell everyone leh... knnz

[Chocobelle]

aiyah last time he oso caused a big hooha in acs

 

say kena rubba rubba by teacher wat

[Kent]

the vp not teacher, almost got him sacked

[Dynaway]

which last statement...

 

i dun like saf... they can go fug all the spider for all i care.

[Watwheels]

Spoilt brat. Like Regan's pattern.