Road rage offender spared jail

[osiris]

Mar 10, 2010
Road rage offender spared jail
By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

IN A rare move yesterday, a district court judge spared a motorist a jail term and fined him instead for assaulting another man in a road rage incident.

Singaporean Bjorn Henrik Jacobsen, 31, was fined $4,500 after he was found guilty of hitting Mr Sim Seng Jin in the shoulder and stomach along Upper Serangoon Road in December 2008.

He could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to $5,000 for voluntarily causing hurt.

Jacobsen, who was convicted earlier this year after a two-day trial, was fined another $1,500 for using threatening and abusive words on the 54-year-old chartered accountant.

In sentencing Jacobsen, District Judge Wong Choon Ning made it clear that the punishment was the exception rather than the rule.

'This is one of the very rare cases where I have spared anyone convicted of a road rage offence a jail term,' she said.

[TBFF]

So why the exception?

[hnw]

This type of ruling makes me sick to the gut ..
I have long disassociate myself from being a Singaporean..

[newcastle]

So why the exception?

yup..why the exception?

i thought judge usually explain the reason for their sentencing....