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| Domestic violence took place in one of the flats here (Google Maps photo) |
A Filipino cook was jailed for two months and two weeks today after the Eastern Court adjourned a scheduled case and turned its attention to two older assault cases that called for his imprisonment.
M. Tan, 47 years old, was originally scheduled to
answer charges of escaping from lawful authorty, assaulting a police officer in
due execution of his duty and common assault.
The three charges, for which Tan was remanded in jail, took
place while he was being investigated on May 15 at the Queen Mary Hospital, three
days after an assault on his wife who was taken there for treatment.
The first charge arose after he allegedly broke free from a
police officer investigating him. The second charge arose from his allegedly assaulting
the officer as he tried to escape. The third charge arose after he also
allegedly assaulted a Chinese woman while trying to escape.
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After the case was adjourned to Aug. 22 at her request, the prosecutor told Acting Principal Magistrate David Cheung that they were ready for Tan’s plea to the earlier case of assaulting his wife O. last May 12 at their flat on Water St., Sai Wan.
The wife sustained a wound that needed treatment at Queen
Mary Hospital.
Tan pleaded guilty, and his lawyer sought leniency, saying
he had apologized to his wife who in turn wanted to attend the hearing to
express her support, but had to work.
Magistrate Cheung stressed that domestic violence is a
serious offense, and sentenced him to two
months in jail, which in turn activated a suspended two-week jail sentence
meted on him in an earlier assault case. The two sentences will run consecutively.
In that earlier case, Tan was convicted after a trial at Eastern Court, of wounding
another Filipino.
He had denied “unlawfully and maliciously” wounding fellow
Filipino D. Nunag, who emerged with a bleeding head from a fight with Tan
at the corner of Water St. and Queen’s Road west in Sai Wan last Dec. 11, 2023.
He avoided getting jailed because Deputy Magistrate Chung
Wing-sze downgraded the charge to the less-serious offense of common assault,
which brought him a sentence of two weeks, suspended for 15 months.
Today’s conviction took place within those 15 months, thus
activating the jail sentence.
