According to a Media release, 43-year-old Liu Wen Wei was arrested after a dispute with his neighbor and challenging neighbor to a fight. He pleaded guilty in court on 14 November 2019.
The incident happened back on the 18 of May 2019 at Buangkok Crescent Blk 986C, Liu was talking about his neighbour on the phone and his neighbour happened to hear about the conversation when walking past his unit. Liu and his neighbour started to quarrel and soon the dispute escalated quickly.
Liu went into his unit and pulled out a 33 cm hammer and was prepared to exit his unit to attack the neighbour. The neighbour saw the hammers and kick the gates of the unit shut to prevent Liu from leaving his unit.
Liu then became more agitated and went back into his unit kitchen but this time returning with a 20.5cm knife, he was armed with both the hammer and knife on each arm and taunted his neighbour to let him out of his unit for a fight.
When the neighbour’s wife saw the dispute, she immediately contacted the Police.
The police arrested Liu and seized the hammer and knife as evidence.
During that period Liu was also a suspect of a theft case, he was charged in court for two counts of theft and sentenced for seven months jail and a separate charge of two weeks jail.