A teenager slashed his abusive father twice in their Yishun flat after the 47-year-old man taunted him by calling him “ah gua” (Hokkien for transvestite) and challenging him to “chop someone with a knife”.
A teenager slashed his abusive father twice in their Yishun flat after the 47-year-old man taunted him by calling him “ah gua” and challenging him to “chop someone with a knife”.
After the teenager dropped one of the knives, his father picked it up and approached a fourth-floor unit for help before he collapsed. The prosecution sought a sentence of between seven and 12 years’ jail “to reflect the accused’s intentional violence towards his father”, while the defence asked for five years’ jail.
Prosecutors told the court that Mr Eddie Seah drank regularly and, when intoxicated, often verbally abused his wife and Seah. He also physically abused his children when they were younger. Seah then went back to the kitchen to take the same knife and a second one with a blade measuring about 15cm. When his father collapsed outside a flat, Seah shouted for someone to call the police. When police officers arrived at the scene, he told them: “I killed him.”
Dr Christopher Cheok of the IMH, who assessed Seah’s condition in 2024, found that his risk of reoffending is low and his long-term prognosis is good.
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