SINGAPORE : The Attorney-General's Chambers is appealing the judgement on Monday in which Premier Taxis chief Timothy Chua escaped a jail term for his road rage act.
The 37-year-old chairman of the taxi company was instead fined the maximum of S$1,000 for attacking a motorist after a traffic collision along Bukit Timah Road in May 2003.
Very few people have escaped the jail term since Chief Justice Yong Pung How declared in 1992 that jail sentences should be handed out to all road-rage offenders.
But in her judgement on Monday, Magistrate Ngoh Siew Yen said while prison terms have been customary for such offences, sentencing precedents were just guidelines.
She ruled that Chua's case was different, as his act was not premeditated, he did not use a weapon and had also shown genuine remorse over his actions. - CNA