Singapore man threatens to slit wife’s throat, kill their baby. Gets 3 months’ jail

The 24-year-old man was sentenced to three months’ jail after pleading guilty to criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt.

The name of the man and his wife cannot be published to protect the identity of the couple’s children.

On May 14 last year, just over two months after the young couple got married, the 21-year-old woman was at home with her husband and their baby girl who was asleep in the bedroom.

The court heard that as her husband was speaking “very loudly” on the phone, his wife told him to “shut up”.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Chye Jer Yuan said that the man took a knife from the kitchen and put the blunt side of the blade to his wife’s throat, saying that he would cut her.

He later threw the knife to the floor, grabbed her by the throat and pushed her head towards the window grille behind the bed, before leaving the bedroom and returning the knife to the kitchen.

When his wife said that she wanted to take the baby to her mother-in-law’s house, the man asked her to “try doing that”, Chye said.

The woman then took the same knife from the kitchen and threatened to cut her arm if he refused to let her leave. She cut her arm after her husband said that he did not care.

Seeing this, the man grabbed the knife and threw it on the sofa. He stopped his wife when she tried to take the baby out of the house, saying, “I will kill the baby if you ever leave the house”.

The couple continued to argue in the kitchen, where the man slapped his wife twice in the face. She then ran to her mother-in-law’s nearby home.

The man’s mother called the police soon after, reporting that her son had abused his wife and that the man had refused to give their child to the mother.

Paramedics deployed to the scene made a check on the baby girl