Couple’s Fight Turned Violent & Woman Grabs Scissors To Attack Man At Bedok Bus Interchange

Here are some bogus statistics done by Goody Feed with one couple:

Most couples fight. It is the sign of a functional relationship.

Fewer couples use violence when they fight. It is the sign of a dysfunctional relationship.

Hazarding a guess, involving weapons in during couple fights is a rarity, and an even bigger one if that weapon is a pair of scissors grabbed from a nearby shop in the middle of a bus interchange.

I guess that’s why we’re talking about this case today.

What happened

In Bedok Bus Interchange, on 8 April 2019 at around 2.30 p.m., a fight between a 27-year-old woman and a 29-year-old man turned ugly.

Very ugly.

The man was queuing to top up his EZ-Link card when the woman tried to speak to him. He ignored her, which apparently really ticked her off, because she started attacking him.

A sales assistant working at a cosmetics shop in the interchange, Queens Beauty Station, told the Shin Min Daily News: “She kicked him and punched him in the head, and he started bleeding. I believe she was holding a key, or something else sharp.”

Yes, you’ve read it right. Men are often victims of domestic violence as well just that they don’t receive the same attention.

Manning an electricity retailing booth nearby, Mr Sazali Sidek told The New Paper that he heard the man shout, “Please, someone help to stop her!”

Despite the crowd gathered, the man had to take matters into his own hands, retaliating by hitting his partner back, likely on the nose and mouth, causing her to start bleeding as well.

Not satisfied by the turn of events (or the amount of blood already shed), the woman ran into a nearby cosmetics shop, probably Queens Beauty Station where the eyewitness works, and grabbed a pair of scissors used by the shop staff – the better to assault her partner with.

Running back out with her new weapon, Mr Sazali said: “One of the SBS Transit staff was able to catch hold of the woman’s hand and took the scissors away.”

The by-standers then launched into action, with around 10 people helping to pin the man down, while another three did the same to the woman.

(Yeah, no bystander effect here)

The whole episode lasted about 15 minutes, and both were bleeding by the time the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived 20 minutes later.

The aftermath 

As the couple were sped off to Changi General Hospital in two SCDF ambulances, The New Paper (and lots of other sources after) made it a point to report that according to Mr Asri Bin Ajis, 41, a Transitlink technical officer, there was a bloodstain about the size of an open palm on the floor and several more small drops of blood.

This perhaps emphasises how gory the argument was, or might have been an attempt at empathising with whoever had to clean up the mess after everything.

And what about the repercussions of the rash decision to involve a pair of scissors in the fight? A police spokesman said the woman was later arrested for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapon, which many sites have helpfully dug out the penal code involved:

Section 334 Singapore Penal Code states that whoever voluntarily causes hurt by means of any instrument for shooting, stabbing or cutting, or any instrument which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, or by means of fire or any heated substance, or by means of any poison or any corrosive substance, or by means of any explosive substance, or by means of any substance which it is deleterious to the human body to inhale, to swallow, or to receive into the blood, or by means of any animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 7 years, or with fine, or with caning, or with any combination of such punishments.

Don’t you love reading legal jargon? It’s so delightfully thorough.

What you need to know is that it’s a jail term of up to 7 years and/with fine. And also with caning.

Police investigations are ongoing.