Doctor accused of assaulting ex-girlfriend when refused intercourse claims he cannot remember just what occurred

The target, Rachel Lim En Hui, utilizing the injuries presumably inflicted by her ex-boyfriend. (picture: court papers)

Share the information

Bookmark

SINGAPORE: a health care provider on test for savagely assaulting their gf after she declined sex took the stand inside the very own defence on Tuesday (Nov 5) and reported which he could perhaps not keep in mind just what took place.

Clarence Teo Shun Jie, a locum that is 35-year-old stand-in physician, told the court he had serious alcoholism during the time and contains suffered black-outs after consuming.

Clarence Teo Shun Jie during the State Courts on Nov 5, 2019. (Picture: TODAY/Raj Nadarajan)

He presumably locked 27-year-old Rachel Lim En Hui in a space at their Redhill flat on Aug 27, 2017.

He could be accused of punching her repeatedly, striking her head contrary to the wall surface and making her with multiple fractures that are facial other accidents.

Their dad called the authorities at around 4am, and officers in the scene heard screams and shouts originating from inside Teo’s locked space.

If they broke along the door to get entry, an officer saw the target weeping in a large part of this space by having a distended, bloodied face, while Teo ended up being aware and lying in the sleep.

He had been taken fully to medical center in handcuffs whilst the target invested 21 times in medical center.

Teo, whom faces a cost of voluntarily causing grievous hurt and another of wrongful confinement, told the court he endured serious alcoholism, although the target purportedly has disorder that is bipolar.

Teo told the court which he choose to go away using the victim that for karaoke and drinks day.

He recalls insisting planning to drive despite having alcohol that is drunk and recalls making love after.

“NEXT MEMORY WE HAVE IS OF GETTING UP IN THE CELL”

“The second memory we obviously have is of getting out of bed in the mobile, ” stated Teo. “We have a memory of individuals arresting me personally. Handcuffing me personally. The next thing i am aware, I became within the cellular. “

He stated he woke up in a cellular at Police Cantonment specialized along with his bloodstream examples and fingerprints taken.

He remembers telling a police in a declaration which he really could maybe maybe perhaps not keep in mind such a thing.

The court was told by him which he had met Ms Lim on dating app Coffee matches Bagel at the start of 2017.

Then they started dating, and he stated they certainly were “extremely happy” together if they had been both “more stable”.

“we believe that my relationship with Rachel had been characterised by our disorders that are mental” said Teo. “Both of us admitted to one another very early within the relationship that individuals were kind of mentally sick along with been going right on through these problems even prior to conference one another. “

He stated that Ms Lim told him she was indeed experiencing manic depression. Inturn, he shared with her about their alcoholism dilemmas, which he claims he has got lost jobs and relationships over.

He stated as he was heavily intoxicated one night when he was meant to stand in for a doctor that he lost a job at Gleneagles due to his drinking issues.

They might argue over “ridiculous”, “nonsensical things”, with “small things” blowing up, he stated.

He included which he purportedly has borderline character condition and it has issues controlling their rage, but he failed to get an official diagnosis because it might have jeopardised their career.

He began seeing a psychiatrist last year or 2012 while he ended up being “blacking away a great deal” after ingesting and “did actually crazy things”.

He stated which he “relapsed in an exceedingly way that is big whenever Ms Lim supposedly attempted committing suicide around her birthday celebration in mid-2017, a couple of months prior to the incident.

He stated he was visiting her day-to-day into the ward and relapsed into consuming at night.

Teo advertised which he have not drunk alcohol since October 2017, as he began opting for regular Alcoholics Anonymous sessions.

“PUNCHED FOR i loved this NO REASON”

As opposed to their testimony, Deputy Public Prosecutors Phang and Amanda Sum alleged that Teo had grown “enraged and turned aggressive” when the victim expressed reluctance to have sex with him april.

“When she attempted to keep the space to flee from him, he pursued her, forced her back to the space, and locked the entranceway, ” they said. “This was accompanied by an assault that is violent the accused punched the target’s face over and over repeatedly with great force, and hit the target’s mind resistant to the wall surface. “

Ms Lim told the court that Teo had assaulted her after she declined to own intercourse with him that day.

Teo’s defence lawyer Tan Hee Joek place it to her that she was indeed “untruthful” whenever she stated this in court.

“That is my truth, ” responded Ms Lim.

The lawyer included that she had told two differing people about the event but hadn’t mentioned to either person who the attack happened as a result of her refusal for intercourse.

Alternatively, she stated she had “no idea” why he assaulted her, reported the defence attorney.

“a female maybe not planning to have sexual intercourse with a person and getting punched – she is getting punched for no reason at all! ” responded Ms Lim.

The test continues on Wednesday with Teo from the stand.

If discovered accountable of voluntarily causing grievous hurt, he might be jailed for approximately 10 years and fined or caned.

He could possibly be jailed for approximately a 12 months, fined a optimum s$3,000, or both if convicted of wrongfully confining his ex-girlfriend.