Volkswagen salesman on 21-month slingshot rampage busted

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A sales consultant who went on a wrecking spree with two slingshots is appealing against his eight-month jail sentence.

Inspired by a YouTube video, Magnus Yeo Teck Chuang, 39, bought the weapons online and carried out a string of drive-by shootings in which he fired marbles at glass buildings, causing S$152,000 worth of damage.

His 21-month campaign began as he drove to work on Oct 8, 2010, when he loaded a marble into the slingshot and shattered a glass panel of the Cycle & Carriage showroom in Alexandra Road.

It cost S$33,000 to repair.

He picked random targets and used the slingshot while driving.

Yeo was finally arrested on July 31 last year after shattering a total of 13 windows of premises such as the Volkswagen showroom where he worked in Alexandra Road, shops in Lower Delta Road, and the SingTel building in Pickering Street.

He also smashed glass panels of the Cycle & Carriage showroom on two other occasions.

Yeo admitted to four charges of mischief, and nine other charges were taken into consideration at a district court.

He was also ordered to pay compensation of $130,803 to cover the damage he caused in the four charges he admitted to.

If he is unable to pay, he must serve another five months behind bars.

Yeo, who is in Changi Prison, has appealed to the High Court to reduce his punishment.

Defence counsel Terence Tan of Dodwell law firm had told the court that his client had been suffering from stress and depression for the last two to three years and a psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health believed his state of mind could have contributed to the offences.