Pizza Delivery Boy Jailed For Killer Litter
Wednesday, 22nd September 2010
A pizza delivery boy, Tan Kwan Sin, was sentenced to six weeks' jail for throwing the leg of a chair out of his flat on 31 January 2010 by the district judge. In his appeal, Tan's lawyer asked the high court to sentence Tan to probation instead of a jail term because he had an IQ of 87 and was under stress as his parents were going through a divorce at that time. Justice V K Rajah did not agree and said it was pure luck that Tan's act had not caused a more serious injury. The judge however acknowledged that the six-week sentence by the district judge was excessive and reduced Tan's sentence to three weeks in prison.