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SINGAPORE: Former actor Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, was sentenced on Friday (February 26) to 10 months in jail after personally making a defense that the prosecutor called “ridiculous.”
Ng, 59, was convicted last month of voluntarily causing harm with a dangerous weapon for assaulting a Bangladeshi worker at the Islamic Center in Singapore in 2018.
He was also ordered to pay the victim S $ 3,300 in compensation for his salary, as well as pain and suffering caused. If you don’t pay, you will have to serve another three weeks in jail in arrears.
Ng was allowed to begin his sentence in mid-March. He indicated that he could file an appeal.
The worker, Mr. Jahidul, was cleaning a ventilation shaft in a dining area on December 11, 2018, when Ng became upset that he had not used enough rope to attach a plastic bag to a garbage can.
After throwing a wooden board at Mr. Jahidul, who did not hit him, Ng threw a plastic bucket at him, hitting him on the buttocks, before attacking him with a heavy metal scraper.
Asking Ng for 10 months in prison and asking him to pay the victim S $ 3,300 in compensation, Deputy Prosecutor Chong Kee En said that Ng “tainted the witnesses” during the trial and “subjected the court to his ridiculous defenses” .
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Ng had carried out his own defense, acting out some parts of it and claimed that the victim had asked him to beat him and teach him. Ng said he learned to throw fake punches during his acting days and didn’t actually hit the victim or hurt her.
He claimed that he was the actual victim, saying that Mr. Jahidul was a “monster, a great monster” who was willing to frame him and was “trying to murder him.”
“Those same defenses were put up by him on the victim, who was nothing more than a disguised version of the victim’s usual cruel taunts,” Chong said.
“He is just a bully and bullies must be taught that power does not do the right thing,” he said. “If you do not dare to treat other human beings with dignity, then you must be prepared to receive strong and dissuasive justice.”
For willfully causing harm with a dangerous weapon, Ng could have been jailed for up to seven years, fined, or both. He cannot be spanked because he is over 50 years old.
He faces a pending charge of disturbing the public peace by fighting someone on Buffalo Road, and will return to court at a later date for a pretrial conference.
