Drunk man in Singapore pleads guilty to punching wife for refusing sex

Ignoring her pleas to stop, the man then punched his mother in the face, and then continued his attempted assault. He stopped only after he became tired while his mother struggled to escape his grip.

On another occasion, while also drunk, the man hit his wife after she declined to have sex with him. He had punched her so hard that she fell back and hit a cupboard, fracturing her nose and finger.

In the High Court on Tuesday, the man, 61, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated sexual assault with penetration, voluntarily causing grievous hurt and using criminal force against a police officer.

Another nine charges will be taken into consideration during sentencing, some of which are related to a separate incident in 2021, in which the man hurled vulgarities at a police officer while being drunk in a public place.

Among the charges taken into consideration is an outrage of modesty charge for touching his mother inappropriately during his attempted sexual assault.

The prosecution, who described him as a long-time alcoholic and a “menace to society”, said his actions had traumatised his mother and that she showed signs of anger and fear when recounting the incident to a medical social worker.

Prosecutors also cited a long list of past crimes, including for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in 1987.

To this, Judicial Commissioner Christopher Tan called for a preventive detention suitability report to be made.

Preventive detention is a severe punishment imposed only when the court is satisfied that a recalcitrant offender should be locked away to protect the public.

The man, his wife and his mother cannot be named due to a gag order.

Before moving in with his mother, he was living with his wife and their son, who was 23 years old