The attempted murder news at Beach Road is one of the biggest news this year that shock the nation. Shortly after the incident went viral, the Police released a news on Facebook for the case.
However, a translated version was seen circulating on the internet in Chinese.
The Police said that the version contains several errors and they did not issue it, they believed that the translation was automatically translated via social media.
Here is what the Police said:
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 The Police are aware of an image of a news release on the incident at Beach Road circulating on messaging apps which contained several translation errors. The Police would like to clarify that we did not issue the news release in the Chinese language, and it is believed that the translation in the circulating image could be an auto-generated translation of the social media platform, which resulted in several translation errors.
Here is the original News release:
𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄
𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑
The Police have arrested a 46-year-old man for his suspected involvement in the attempted murder of a 41-year-old woman, who is believed to be his wife.
On 14 April 2022 at about 5.30pm, the Police responded to a case of assault with a chopper at 75 Beach Road. Upon arrival, officers found the woman with slash wounds at the scene. The woman was conveyed conscious to the hospital. Preliminary investigations revealed that the 46-year-old man had allegedly attacked the woman with a chopper.
Several members of the public had intervened to help the victim and prevent the man from causing further harm to the victim. Police officers arrived at the scene, located the armed man in the vicinity and deployed Taser to subdue him. Prior to the officers’ arrival, the man was believed to have slit his own wrists with a chopper. The man was subsequently arrested, and he was conveyed conscious to the hospital. The chopper was seized.
Police investigations are ongoing.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (AC) Jeremy Ang, Commander of Central Police Division, said: “The Police would like to commend the members of the public who had intervened to prevent the man from causing further harm to the woman.”
The 46-year-old man will be charged in court on 16 April 2022 with attempted murder under Section 307 of the Penal Code. Those found guilty of the offence of attempted murder will be liable for life imprisonment, imprisonment of up to 20 years and a fine, or both.
The Police are aware of videos circulating online of the incident and would like to urge members of the public to refrain from circulating the videos and speculating on the case.