Man’s ‘right’ to insult foreigners lands him in jail

A SINGAPOREAN who berated two foreign workers with xenophobic insults said in his defence that it was his “constitutional right” to express himself as the pair were in his neighbourhood.

After a trial at a district court, Lee Poh Kian, 56, was yesterday sentenced to a week’s jail and fined S$1,000 (RM3,200).