A 28-year-old Singapore Armed Forces regular, Kelvin Tan Chun Long, pleaded guilty to one charge of causing hurt by a rash act and was fined $5,000 yesterday, the maximum fine.
He had flung a plastic bag that had a container of hot soup at a hawker assistant because they prepared fried bean curd for him instead of fried bean curd skin.
Tan, who holds the rank of a captain in the SAF, is currently suspended from service as MINDEF and the SAF are reviewing his case for the purpose of discharge proceedings.
What happened
Tan was at a coffee shop in Woodlands Drive 71 buying food to takeaway at the victim’s stall on 6 June 2020 at about 1pm.
He returned to the stall about 15 minutes later to collect his food and as a result of a miscommunication between Tan and the victim, the stall prepared the wrong order.
Tan then became unhappy when the victims told him that the order cannot be redone as it had already been cooked.
Tan then pushed a plastic bag that had his order inside and it fell onto the floor, he then walked towards the nearest table where all the other food that he bought from other stalls were.
He then picked up and flung a plastic bag that had a container of hot soup in it towards the victim as he reached the table.
The plastic bag and container inside then hit the victim’s body, resulting in the soup spilling onto her and she then felt a burning feeling on her right waist.
Tan then walked away but some of the witnesses gave chase to him, and he then apologised to the victim.
A police report was then made by a police officer who was patrolling.
The victim suffered a superficial partial-thickness burn wound on her right abdomen and was given 3 days MC.