Man who sent threatening messages to PM Lee Hsien Loong sentenced to 15 months jail
The man convicted of criminal intimidation in October for sending threatening Facebook messages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment on Wednesday (9 December).
District Judge Mathew Joseph, in passing sentence on 33-year-old Tan Yeong Hong noted that Tan is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and needed a period of “incarceration and psychiatric treatment” to stabilise him, said TODAY.
Tan had attended PM Lee’s Meet-The-People session on 24 June this year to hand an article to the Prime Minister, who happened to be absent on that day.
Later that night, Tan sent threatening private messages to PM Lee on Facebook, from his phone.
The messages reportedly read, “Eh, You challenged me to visit your (Meet-the-People Sessions) but you are not here. I will find and stage an attack on you when I have information on your public appearances. You know who I am...”
Tan is also guilty of assaulting two police officers who met him the following day for investigations
While psychiatric reports show that Tan has a mental illness, he is still fit to enter a plea in court.
According to reports, Tan had pleaded for a lighter sentence.
The sentencing has been backdated to 27 June, which was the start of his remand.
