Man who called lift passenger 'smelly' in racist remarks gets jail, fine

SINGAPORE: A man who subjected a lift passenger to racist remarks and stepped on the foot of a woman who held the lift door open for him was on Friday sentenced to four weeks' jail and a S$1,000 fine.AdvertisementHe pleaded guilty to charges of wounding racial feelings, using criminal force and voluntarily causing hurt.

On Aug 3, Aw was in a lift at Changi Airport Terminal 2 when the victim, 33-year-old Indian national Ramachandiran Umapathy, entered the lift.The construction worker was at the airport to perform installation works for the MRT tunnel. He also filmed the exchange and posted it on the Facebook page of the Singapore Police Force. The video was later picked up by other pages and went viral. Mr Ramachandiran lodged a police report.More than a month after this, Aw was eating at Singtel Comcentre along Exeter Road when he picked up a plastic bowl of noodle soup, walked over to two unidentified men and splashed it at them.And in January last year, Aw injured a woman who had held a lift door open for him at as he was rushing in.

It was captured between only two individuals in a lift, he said, pointing out that"even Amos Yee was given three weeks' jail".

as much as i hate casual racism ,,,, this isn't really a jailable offense ooo-

Headlines are misleading.

lmaooo 🍓

Some joker forgot take meds...

Makes my curry blood boil.

Stupid kanina fuckin basturd

Pathetic.. that's not a jailable offence..

Many such when one shld try being tolerant of one another in this ctry. Haiz

awesome.

I hope he shower more or else he will be smelly inside the cell

Good for him.

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