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Man presses pillow on adoptive mum's face after fight over mounting debt
2025-04-30 02:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
A part-time donation collector received around $45,000 from his late adoptive father's estate, but ended up in debt after patronising a nightspot about four times a week.Yong Chun Hong, who spent around $1,000 on each visit, took loans from unlicensed moneylenders and asked his elderly adoptive mother to sell her home to raise money for his financial woes.They quarrelled after the 78-year-old woman said she could not help him. Yong then forcefully pressed a pillow on her face, but she managed to push it away.On April 16, the 36-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to four years and two months' jail. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of performing an act that endangered human life, knowing it could have killed the victim.He could have been jailed for up to 14 years and fined.Yong was initially accused of attempting to murder his adoptive mother - a charge that carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and caning.Alternatively, an offender convicted of the charge can be jailed...
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