There is the term of “ageing gracefully”, but some people will never understand the term.
A man was recently jailed 3 weeks after he poured sanitizer into his colleague’s drink.
The victim is a new staff
According to Shin Min Daily News, 70-year-old Chen Rui Hao pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally causing hurt to a person by harmful substances.
Both the defendant and the victim are security officers at a primary school in Punggol. Chen had worked at the said location for at least 2 years while the 37-year-old female victim joined about a month ago.
The dispute started when the victim told another security guard that the defendant did not had to stand in the sun while the rest of the officers are required to.
During a meeting, the female staff raised her dissatisfaction and they started to be on bad terms.
They began finding “fault” at each other and the defendant finally took the wrong course of action which landed him in jail.
On 12 May 2021, the woman who brought a bottle of barley and the defendant added a few drops of hand sanitizer stating that he “Did not want to see her anymore”. He wanted to female security staff to leave.
The woman drank it and felt weird and later told her husband to bring her a drink, the defendant did not stop here and added hand sanitizer to it again.
After the woman drank her newly bought drink, she had a burning sensation in her throat and discomfort in her stomach. She informed her boss and checked the CCTV and found out that the defendant had “spiked” her drink.
The Police was notified immediately.