[Digichat.info] A man got angry at a co-worker who kept appearing naked at the fish farm where they worked, and a man hit his co-worker on the head with a hammer.Saw Paing Soe Thu, 35, was jailed for a year and a month on Tuesday (July 6), after pleading guilty to one count of voluntarily causing injury with a dangerous weapon.
A Myanmar national and 38-year-old compatriot Aung Win Htut were working on a fish farm located in the sea near Lim Chu Kang.
About one to two months before the accident, Aung Win Htut walked around the fish farm naked, prompting Saw Paing Soe Thu to tell him not to walk around naked.
Things came to a head on April 9 this year, when Aung Win Htut emerged from the bathroom without clothes at around 6pm. Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking when a co-worker walked into the cooking area to put out the fire to heat the kettle.
Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking on the stove when Aung Win Htut appeared behind him, naked. Confused, Saw Paing Soe Thu scolds his co-worker and gets angry at his co-worker for being naked.
After a while, Saw Paing Soe Thu consumed half a bottle of rice wine. At about 9:30 p.m. that day, the drunken man became enraged, as his colleague repeatedly appeared naked. He took a hammer – usually used to kill fish – from the storage area and approached Aung Win Htut, who was talking on the phone.
Then the Saw Paing Soe Thu hit the victim on the forehead with a hammer. The victim fell to the ground and bled from his forehead. He contacted the owner of the fish farm for assistance and the latter called the police at the Coast Guard Police at Lim Chu Kang Provincial Base.