Man ordered to go for mental treatment after threatening to soak State Courts employee with urine


Sim Swee Guan, who had been diagnosed with delusional disorder, committed the offences between October 2015 and July last year.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW.

SINGAPORE: An unemployed man was sentenced to a two-year mandatory treatment order (MTO) on Wednesday after pleading guilty to offences including threatening to soak a State Courts staff member with his urine.

Sim Swee Guan, now 57, who had been diagnosed with delusional disorder, pleaded guilty last month to five counts of abusing public service workers, two counts of using abusive language against them and one count of committing wrongful restraint. Two harassment charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.

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