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SINGAPORE – The Home Affairs Ministry will review the penalty framework in cases similar to the recent one involving a dentistry student who strangled and put his thumb into his ex-girlfriend’s eye after she rejected him.
The review will, among other things, look at the extent to which an offender’s background, including educational status, should be a relevant factor in penalties. This was disclosed by Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam in an interview on Tuesday (July 21) in the wake of outrage over the student’s sentence.
National University of Singapore (NUS) student, Yin Zi Qin, 23, was sentenced last Friday (July 10) to a short detention order of 12 days, and 80 hours of community service, for attacking his ex-girlfriend.
He was also given a day reporting order of five months, which means he will have to report to a centre for monitoring and counselling, and undergo rehabilitation.
He will not have a criminal record upon his release.
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