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SINGAPORE — An unemployed man with paranoid schizophrenia was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing a part-time Toto draw announcer to death three years ago.
Fang Gao San, 56, had wanted to kill the staff at the PoMo Singapore Pools outlet at Selegie Road as he believed they had cheated him of his “winnings”. He said he had struck the fourth prize in a Toto draw in 2010 but had only received S$479 as the prize was shared among more than 900 people.
Singapore Pools’ records, however, showed no winnings for Fang in 2010.
He had gone to a Tian Gong temple in Telok Blangah to consult deities and believed that the Jade Emperor had approved his proposal to kill those working at the outlet.
Armed with a 10cm-long paring knife, Fang left his Redhill flat on May 31, 2010, and headed to the PoMo mall. After the Toto draw at 6.30pm, he saw Sito Woon Chee, who had announced the results, leaving the mall and ran after him.
Fang stabbed the 59-year-old four times in the back, abdomen and right leg, then walked away.
Two Singapore Pools employees who had witnessed the attack tailed Fang and approached two police officers, who arrested him after a struggle.
Institute of Mental Health psychiatrist Stephen Phang had examined Fang and found him to be a paranoid schizophrenic who harboured delusions and heard “voices”. He was assessed as unfit to plead in 2010 but was certified as capable of making his own defence in April last year.
Dr Phang had re-examined him in July last year and felt that, while he was acutely psychotic at and around the time of the killing, he could appreciate the nature and illegality of his act.
“The accused was not of unsound mind then, but his mental responsibility for the act of homicide was significantly and substantially impaired as a direct consequence of active paranoid schizophrenia, an abnormality of mind,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Woon Kwong.
Fang pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Dr Phang said he requires permanent psychiatric treatment, “preferably in a secure environment” with strict supervision of his medication dosage. According to court documents, he had thrown away his medication in the past.
During sentencing, Justice Woo Bih Li acknowledged that Fang had a major mental illness, but told him: “It is obvious you are a great danger to the public.”
The judge noted several “chilling” statements from Fang: That if he had access to a gun, he would have used it to kill everyone at the Singapore Pools outlet; that he had believed the deceased deserved to die; and that he would have repeated his actions with the deity’s permission.
Fang appeared calm in court yesterday. His lawyer Josephus Tan reminded him to stay on his medication before he was led away.
Fang and Sito’s relatives were not present in court.
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