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SINGAPORE – Retired local actor and director Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, was sentenced on Friday (February 26) to 10 months in prison for assaulting a Bangladeshi worker in 2018.
The 59-year-old Singaporean used a metal scraper to hit the worker, Mr. Jahidul, twice in the abdomen and once on the head at the Singapore Islamic Hub (SIH) on Braddell Road around 4.30pm on 11 December of that year.
As a result, Mr. Jahidul, who has only one name, suffered injuries to his scalp and torso.
Ng was also ordered to pay the victim $ 3,300 in compensation.
Records from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority show that Ng is a director of two companies: Hyl Enterprise, which deals with plumbing work, and the film producer Red Group Studio.
The former actor was convicted on January 22 of one count of assault after a trial.
Ng also has an unrelated charge of disturbing the public peace. He is charged with fighting a Mogana Raj Saravanan on June 9, 2019.
This case will be dealt with at a later date.
[[nid:516462]]Jahidul, 34, testified during his trial last year that Ng frequently yelled and threatened him, even challenging him to fight.
On December 11, 2018, Ng was upset with the Bangladeshi citizen for not following his instructions while doing some cleaning work at SIH.
Mr. Jahidul told the court that his boss threw him a plastic bucket and a wooden board. The cube hit him on the back and forced him down a ladder he was on.
Ng then attacked him with the metal scraper.
Ng, who was not represented by a lawyer, claimed during the trial that Mr. Jahidul had given the former actor the right to beat him.
[[nid:510920]]He said that Mr. Jahidul treated him “like his father”, adding: “This is what he told me: ‘I allow you to hammer me because I do things very slowly.’
Ng also claimed that Mr. Jahidul was “acting” and exaggerating his injuries so that they appeared to be “100 times worse than they actually were”.
Ng was an actor for over 20 years and was named Best Supporting Actor at the annual Star Awards three times: in 2002, 2003 and 2006.
He left Mediacorp in 2008 to set up a production house.
Those convicted of causing harm with a weapon can be imprisoned for up to seven years and fined or punished. Ng cannot be spanked because he is over 50 years old.
This article was first published in The times of the strait. Permission is required for reproduction.
