A man who slashed actor Ryan Lian over a staring incident outside Singapore’s NEX shopping centre was sentenced to nine months’ jail on Friday.
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Aaron Samuel Yukon, a 22-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty to one count of causing grievous hurt. A second charge of possessing a karambit (curved blade) knife was taken into consideration.
The court heard that the victim, Lian Yong Yi, better known as Ryan Lian, was smoking near the sheltered walkway outside NEX shopping plaza in Serangoon Central at about 6.10pm on November 22 last year.
Yukon, who was a stranger to Lian, went to the same location to smoke soon after.
The two men were annoyed with each other for staring, and a verbal confrontation ensued, the prosecutor said.
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A fight broke out and they fell to the ground. As they punched each other and struggled, Yukon reached into his pouch and retrieved a sheathed karambit knife.