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By Chong Shin Yen

 

HE SLAPPED her so hard that three hours later the redness on her face had not subsided and three distinct finger marks could be seen.

 

Before he hit her, cabby Ang Kim Chui, 59, had shouted at her: "Don't think (that) because you are a woman, I wouldn't hit you."

 

Madam Ng Sie Hwee, 33, a businesswoman, was three months' pregnant at that time.

 

She suffered a miscarriage three days after the road rage incident.

 

Madam Ng told The New Paper after the sentencing: "The doctor told me the first trimester can be pretty unstable and (the miscarriage) might not have been caused by that incident.

 

"But the psychological pressure I felt then might have contributed to it."

 

Ang was sentenced to six weeks' jail after a trial. He is appealing against his sentence.

 

The court heard that Madam Ng had driven her Volvo out of a Toa Payoh Central carpark on April 9, 2008 at about 4.20pm.

 

She was about to turn into the main road when Ang's taxi suddenly swerved into her lane from the right.

 

Meanwhile, the traffic lights farther up the main road had turned red and the vehicles in front of Ang's taxi had stopped.

 

He ended in an awkward spot, with his taxi straddling diagonally across two lanes.

 

Scared of cabby

 

Ang then looked towards Madam Ng and pointed his middle finger at her.

 

Madam Ng could not hear what Ang was saying but she could see that he was talking and gesturing at her, as if scolding her.

 

Madam Ng's mother and her 18-month-old son, who were also in the car, were seated in the rear.

 

When the traffic lights turned green and Ang was able to move his taxi, he deliberately drove very slowly, forcing Madam Ng, who was behind him, to also drive at a slow speed.

 

He then suddenly stopped his taxi, alighted and went up to Madam Ng's car.

 

As he 'looked rather antagonistic', Madam Ng quickly locked the car doors.

 

Ang stood beside her door and accused her of colliding into his taxi.

 

He wanted her to alight.

 

Madam Ng was afraid to do so.

 

But Ang was persistent and after a while, she got out.

 

When Madam Ng examined both cars but found no damage.

 

She was sure that she had not collided into the taxi but Ang insisted that she did.

 

He kept asking her what she was going to do about it.

 

Both could not reach a consensus and Madam Ng asked Ang to leave.

 

That was when he shouted at her and slapped her on the right side of her face.

 

Upset and scared, Madam Ng began to cry.

 

She felt pain on her face and jaw line.

 

She said she would call the police and told Ang not to leave.

 

But Ang sneered at her and said that he was not afraid.

 

He added that no one would believe her account before heading towards his taxi.

 

Seeing that Ang was about to leave, Madam Ng's mother, Madam Leow Boon Tee, 61, ran towards him.

 

She shouted at him and pulled at his sleeve to stop him from leaving.

 

Madam Leow was carrying her grandson in her arms.

 

Ang threatened the elderly woman, saying that he had 'something in his car' that he could hit her with.

 

On hearing that, Madam Ng quickly pulled her mother away.

 

Meanwhile, a crowd had gathered and some passers-by also told Ang not to leave the scene.

 

 

 

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Doctor's testimony

 

Ang stood by the road while Madam Ng called the police.

 

But he left before they arrived.

 

Madam Ng went to Mount Alvernia Hospital for a check-up at about 7.40pm that day.

 

She was unable to go earlier as she had to pick her daughter up from school, go to the police station to make a report and send her children and mother home.

 

Dr Ng Kwee Choon, who examined Madam Ng that night, testified that the shape of the red patch on Madam Ng's face appeared as if she had been hit by three fingers.

 

Dr Ng added that the force used on Madam Ng must have been 'quite substantial' as they were still evident three hours after the assault.

 

The court heard that before the incident, Ang had dropped off a passenger and was on his way to hand the taxi over to the driver of the next shift at 5pm in Bukit Panjang.

 

In his defence, Angsaid it was Madam Ng who had dashed towards him and pretended to fall on him, claiming that he had hit her.

 

He also said that the injuries on her face were self-inflicted.

 

Ang left his taxi company four months after the incident.

 

He now works as a driver for a paint company.

 

In his mitigation, Ang's lawyer, Mr Raymond Tan, said that Ang had a clean record in his 30 years as a cabby.

 

Ang's two daughters are working abroad and only his 27-year-old son is working here.

 

In sentencing him, District Judge Wong Choon Ning noted that Ang was the sole aggressor throughout the incident.

 

She added that even if there had been a collision, Ang should not have taken the law into his own hands.

 

Said the judge: "(Ang's) wanton act of slapping (Madam Ng) hard on her face was deplorable and wholly disproportionate..."

 

For voluntarily causing hurt, Ang could have been jailed two years and fined $5,000.

 

 

 

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wow..sibey guailan. deserved to be jailed.

 

Should give him 6 to 12 strokes rotan as well....plus up his jail term 3 to 5 yrs..

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I think he deserved to be jail for 10 year and 24 strokes....

 

Fresh from rotan must add salt and tobassco sauce to the wound [bigcry]

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this is one-sided story...

 

that taxi driver got witness of the volvo hit the taxi... just a soft one.. and the taxi is not "straddling diagonally across two lanes" when the volvo hit the taxi...

 

but this taxi driver choose to leave (as nothing wrong with the taxi) after hit the woman (this no one know about it)... of cos he is wrong... maybe too angry liao...

 

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The sentence is too light!! should have given a longer sentence for the cabby driver. See this thread already makes me blood boil. How can the cabby driver do that to the woman!

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Think he looking for free lodging....

 

i agree, he should be caned....idiot

 

regardless of whose fault, one-sided, the hands should not be laid on a woman,

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this is one-sided story...

 

that taxi driver got witness of the volvo hit the taxi... just a soft one.. and the taxi is not "straddling diagonally across two lanes" when the volvo hit the taxi...

 

but this taxi driver choose to leave (as nothing wrong with the taxi) after hit the woman (this no one know about it)... of cos he is wrong... maybe too angry liao...

 

but in my opinion, even if the volvo hit the taxi, the taxi driver shouldnt hit people. He is totally wrong to do that... [rifle]

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shud hav kenna beaten up by ppl

 

lol...but cannot lar..."A" beat taxi driver, "B" see taxi driver poor thing kana beaten, "B" hit "A".

"C" see "B" kana beaten, "C" go and beat "B"..So there will be no end to it

 

Cannot use violet no matter what [blush]

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shud hav kenna beaten up by ppl

 

 

if Malaysia or China, think his face appear orbituary al...knn.... :angry: :angry:

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Aiya, the taxi rent one mah since the article mentioned he left the taxi company. Even if the cab belongs to him, no need to get so worked up also what? Obviously he's bullying the poor woman.

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lol...but cannot lar..."A" beat taxi driver, "B" see taxi driver poor thing kana beaten, "B" hit "A".

"C" see "B" kana beaten, "C" go and beat "B"..So there will be no end to it

 

Cannot use violet no matter what [blush]

 

 

just kill the bugger, say self defense..... [:p][:p]

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