PAP Female Wing, Including Its MPs, Issued Statement About NUS Student Who Strangled Ex-Girlfriend

Rejection is like a McSpicy – it’s hard to stomach.

That’s why when 23-year-old Yin Zi Qin was dumped by his girlfriend of almost two years in May 2019, he couldn’t accept it.

So, the NUS student climbed into her bedroom window from an adjacent showroom unit and gave her roses, begging for her to reconsider.

The victim declined.

At this point, Yin had two options:

1. Gracefully accept the rejection and move on with his life

2. Literally anything in the world but strangle her

Naturally, he chose to bang his own head against the wall, before strangling the victim.

She screamed and struggled, which prompted him to press his thumb against her eye, causing it to bleed.

The victim passed out and subsequently regained consciousness on the floor. She was later taken to hospital with blurred vision.

While he could have gotten two years in jail for his crime, Yin ended up with a detention order for 12 days, a day reporting order for five months with counselling, as well as an order to fulfil 80 hours of community service.

If this punishment doesn’t exactly sound like justice to you, well, you’re not the only one.

PAP Female Wing, Including Its MPs, Issued Statement About NUS Student Who Strangled Ex-Girlfriend

The People’s Action Party’s (PAP) Women’s Wing and female PAP Members of Parliament (MP) said they were “dismayed”  by the “disproportionate” sentence given to Yin, in a statement on Tuesday (21 July).

The ruling party’s Women’s Wing said that they “strongly denounce violence against women”.

“Like many members of the public, we are dismayed that the sentence, in this case, appears disproportionate to the offence.

“We respect our institutions and judicial system. We also know that there are processes that allow legitimate concerns to be considered.”

The PAP’s Women’s Wing includes MPs Tin Pei Ling and Sun Xueling, as well as newcomers Carrie Tan and Hany Soh.

Tan thanked those who wrote to her to express “concern and indignance” over the case.

The group added that they have shared their concerns with Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, who has “committed to look further into the matter”.

NUS Statement 

NUS released a statement soon after the online backlash,  saying it “stands strongly against any form of misconduct.”

According to the university, Yin, a dentistry student, is currently serving a suspension and is not allowed on campus, pending disciplinary proceedings which are ongoing.

They said that “students who have breached NUS Statutes and Regulations face severe sanctions, including suspension and expulsion.”

It added that it did not have the “jurisdiction to investigate matters beyond the university”, and had to “wait for the completion of the court proceedings to gather the facts of the case.”

Online Petition

Netizens, just like the PAP’s Women’s Wing, were not pleased with the punishment Yin received, because they felt that the “sentence did not commensurate with his actions.”

One netizen set up an online petition calling for a harsher sentence, which has garnered over 13,000 signatures at the time of writing.

“Assault should not be tolerated. We need stricter punishments to deter violence against not just women but anyone as well – men, children, and the elderly”, the petition read.

Some Context

There’s a reason why people are so upset about this, and also why we added “NUS” in the title.

Back in 2019, an NUS student was given a conditional warning after he filmed female student Monica Baey in the shower without her consent.

Why?

Because he had a “high likelihood of rehabilitation and was remorseful”.

Naturally, this move sparked outrage among the public and also female students in NUS, who felt that the university wasn’t taking sexual misconduct seriously.

Monica Baey, the victim, stood up for herself and managed to bring the entire nation’s attention to the issue after her own university allegedly said all she would get is an apology.

They changed their tune quickly after her plea for justice struck a chord with Singaporeans.

Not The Only One

In another case last year, an NUS student who molested a woman was only given probation because he had the “potential to excel in life”.

The judge also called his actions “minor intrusions”.

Well, it didn’t sit well with Singaporeans on social media and soon, after a public backlash (which included a surprise FB post from Singapore’s law minister, a petition to jail him and an equally-surprised AGC appealing against his sentence), his sentence for probation was overturned and he was sentenced to two weeks’ jail instead.

There were a host of similar cases that followed, prompting memes such as these:

Will things change in the future? I certainly hope so.

Will things change for this particular dude who strangled his own ex-girlfriend because she refused to get together with him?

Maybe, because every time law minister K Shanmugam SC is interested in something, things always get done.

Just look at Bak Kut Teh lover and the aforementioned NUS molester.

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