A 48-year-old man, who hit his daughter when she was 13 and threatened to kill her, also threatened his wife that he would pay people to cut off her mother’s tongue. He had pleaded guilty to four charges on Feb 16, including voluntarily causing hurt to his wife, 43, and...
The man cannot be named to protect his daughter’s identity.
His wife blocked the punch and tried to leave the bedroom they were in, but he pulled her by the collar of her dress, choked her and pushed her against the wall.In June 2021, she and three daughters moved out of the flat they were living in and into a church. On Sept 10, 2021, he called her and urged her to give him another chance and to return home. She refused and hung up.The next day, she called him using her daughter’s mobile phone and asked him to stop harassing her.DPP Teo said in her submissions: “The accused has sought to characterise his conduct as the acts of a desperate father trying to salvage what remains of his familial ties, but he fails to see that he is the author of his own misery.
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