Jail for elderly Singaporean man who assaulted younger brother and torched his flat in inheritance row


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SINGAPORE: Upset at being left out of his late father’s purported inheritance, an elderly man used a metal pole to assault his younger brother after the latter refused to give him any money.

Hoe San Peng was still angry more than a year after the assault when he torched the front door and living room of his sibling’s flat.

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