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A man was sentenced to 18 months and 2 weeks of jail after he punched his own sister and scolded his father in his drunken state.
46-year-old Tan Hiang Hock committed the deed in April and another occasion in May. He punched his own father in the neck after having a quarrel with his family. Then on the 1st of May, he got drunk again and started verbally abusing his father which lead to a squabble with his sister, whom he punches her none stop still there was a fracture in her cheek.
Later on, in May, the even scolded police officers who were trying to help him up as he was found in a drunken state passing out in a public area. He later threatened to burn a clinic on a separate occasion.
He was eventually arrested. Â During all these incidents he was drunk.