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Man Jailed for Throwing & Killing Newly Rescued Kitten, & Also for Robbing a Teenager of his Phone

Ashley Seek

2020-10-23 , 10:40 am

In life, everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect and at some point, we will mess up.

Still, you can’t keep doing those things forever, and eventually need to learn from your mistakes and be better.

Or you could repeat those mistakes and stack other problems on top of those.

I sure hope none of you intentionally do that.

Abusing Kitten and Robbery

According to TODAYonline, Rico Wong Wei Wei was sentenced three-and-a-half years and 10 weeks of jail on 22 October.

The 29-year-old man allegedly threw his two-month-old kitten following a quarrel with his wife.

In addition, he robbed a 17-year-old student of his mobile phone on a public bus while threatening him with a knife.

This was only a month later, by the way.

Though how do you commit robbery on a bus and expect to get away with it?

Not New To Crime

Wong, unfortunately, has experience in this field.

When he was younger, he had to go through informative training twice and spent two years in a juvenile home.

Once was in 2006, for snatch theft while the other instance was in 2009 but was for mischief.

Then, in 2016, he was jailed again for snatch theft.

Old habits die hard, but some old habits should just die, period.

The Fight And Cat Incident

Before either of the new incidents, Wong’s wife already filed a personal protection order against him in January 2018 after fighting at home.

Then came the fight on 4 May 2019 over some financial issues.

In an enraged, state Wong took their innocent kitten and flung it out of the bedroom.

The kitten hit a cupboard in the living room and was bleeding from its head.

You can feel hundreds of netizens preparing to fight.

He picked the feline up and somehow blamed his wife for the cat’s condition because that’s “definitely” how this works.

No, it’s not.

Wong then threw the kitten on the ground in front of his 27-year-old wife, causing blood to splatter on the ground.

He told her, “If I can do this, you, I don’t care.”

The cat stopped moving after 15 minutes, and Wong’s wife told him to remove it as she didn’t want to see it.

Yahoo News reported that he put the kitten in a rubbish bag threw it down the rubbish chute.

Public Bus Robbery

But hold on now! Remember, he also robbed a 17-year-old student.

On 25 June 2019, he decided to rob the boy of his iPhone XR on SMRT bus 856.

And if you’re a young student, a phone’s about all you have for super expensive valuables, too.

Wong approached and threatened him with a knife, in which the latter convinced him to take S$1,000 worth of cash instead.

This was approximately the price of the phone.

They went to an ATM, but the student could only withdraw S$500 due to his withdrawal limit.

When asked if he could hand over the S$500 the following day, Wong just took the cash and phone.

Wong followed him home to get his Apple ID and password so he could reformat and sell the phone.

He eventually sold the phone for S$720, using false information so he couldn’t be traced.

According to the Deputy Public Prosecutor, the student was never compensated.

Wong’s Punishments

There are more punishments than previously mentioned.

Wong pleaded guilty to three charges of robbery, breaching a personal protection order and ill-treating an animal.

Along with his jail term, he was also given six strokes of the cane and is banned from owning pets for a year upon release.

His lawyer, however, says that he greatly regrets his actions. Despite everything, Wong’s wife and father will still support him.

So don’t mess it up this time, for real.

Wong could’ve got up to 10 years of jail and at least six strokes of the cane for robbery.

He also avoided corrective training, which would have seen him have a five-year jail term with no early release even with good conduct.

Armed robbery isn’t super common in Singapore, but knife-related crimes have been on the rise.

Take care of yourself if alone, or stay in groups (of five or less, of course).