Father & son jailed for attacking ambulance driver

• Clivebenss

  15 Mar 11, 16:50

  Mar 15, 2011 - Straits Times

  by Elena Chong

  A PAIR of father and son were jailed on Tuesday for assaulting a nurse director who had parked his ambulance in front of the latter's car in an open carpark.

  Ching Thiam Foo, 49, a driver, was given six months' jail for punching the face and kicking the groin of Mr Sivachandran Murugasu, 28, at Block 212 Bukit Batok Street 21 on Feb 20, 2010.

  His son, sales executive Jesmond Ching Kah Wei, 25, was jailed four months for punching Mr Sivachandran's face. Both pleaded guilty in February.

  The court heard that the victim had parked the private ambulance in front of Jesmond's car to send a patient to the clinic for dialysis. When Jesmond wanted to drive out and found his car blocked, he sounded the horn repeatedly.

  His father came down and went to the clinic to look for the driver, but was told that the vehicle did not belong to the clinic.

  When Mr Sivachandran returned to the ambulance, a dispute broke out between Thiam Foo and the victim, who was punched during a scuffle. The pair could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined up to $5,000 for voluntarily causing hurt.

• sbst275

  15 Mar 11, 16:56

  suspended from driving?

  seriously, ambulance still want to horn and make a din in e neighbourhood

• likeyou

  15 Mar 11, 16:59

  So easy, black mark the father and son.

  So in future, when they call for ambulance, it will be voided for them.

• Hitman 2010

  15 Mar 11, 17:04

  ugly or stupid sporeans for  both ambulance driver n the family.the ambulance driver could have placed a sign on his windscreen saying: please call 9123456 for assistance.

  tells me people coldnt care a hoot and people beat each other cuz of inconsiderate n violent nature in spore enviroment.

• BJK

  15 Mar 11, 17:51

  What a disgraceful act on both father and son. Why so inpatient? I hope they learnt this lesson the hard way. Don't they know that ambulance has the priority usage on road or carpark during emergency.
• sinicker

  15 Mar 11, 18:37

  i like the sentence.
  
  but everytime cases like these happen, which are deserving, i am reminded of other cases where people get away without a jail term but a fine.

• Clivebenss

  15 Mar 11, 20:36

  Originally posted by sinicker:

  i like the sentence.
  
  but everytime cases like these happen, which are deserving, i am reminded of other cases where people get away without a jail term but a fine.

  like this type.

  http://sgforums.com/forums/3545/topics/425198

  

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  15 Mar 11, 21:51

  juz becoz the ambulance parking block ur way

   

  u no need to punch wad