Singapore: A Singaporean man of Chinese origin was sentenced to four weeks in jail and fined 1,000 Singapore dollars for racist remarks insulting an Indian national working at the Changi airport.
William Aw Chin Chai (47) had also stepped on and hurt a foot of a woman, who had held a lift door open for him, and had splashed noodles on two men at the Singtel Shop Comcentre in separate incidents, reported Channel News Asia.
He pleaded guilty to the charges of wounding racial feelings, using criminal force and voluntarily causing hurt on Friday.
A fourth charge for stealing four mineral water bottles from a food court was taken into consideration.
The court heard that Aw was jobless when he committed those offences on three different occasions last year.
On August 3, he 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 (metro) tunnel.
When he entered the lift, Aw began uttering: "You f****** dirty people, go out", "F*** off" and "I don't like to take (lift) with Indians, you smelly".
Ramachandiran told Aw off for making such racist remarks, Assistant Public Prosecutor Lydia Goh told the court.
The Indian had 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. Ramachandiran had also lodged a police report.
27/07/19 PTI/India Today
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William Aw Chin Chai (47) had also stepped on and hurt a foot of a woman, who had held a lift door open for him, and had splashed noodles on two men at the Singtel Shop Comcentre in separate incidents, reported Channel News Asia.
He pleaded guilty to the charges of wounding racial feelings, using criminal force and voluntarily causing hurt on Friday.
A fourth charge for stealing four mineral water bottles from a food court was taken into consideration.
The court heard that Aw was jobless when he committed those offences on three different occasions last year.
On August 3, he 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 (metro) tunnel.
When he entered the lift, Aw began uttering: "You f****** dirty people, go out", "F*** off" and "I don't like to take (lift) with Indians, you smelly".
Ramachandiran told Aw off for making such racist remarks, Assistant Public Prosecutor Lydia Goh told the court.
The Indian had 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. Ramachandiran had also lodged a police report.
27/07/19 PTI/India Today
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