SINGAPORE: A young man who evaded national service (NS) for more than six years to study in Australia was sentenced to 1.5 months’ jail on Thursday (Feb 11), after the prosecution appealed against his initial sentence of a S$4,500 fine.
Brian Joseph Chow, 25, who has attention deficit disorder, left Singapore to study in a school that catered to his condition in 2005 at the age of 15.
Three years later, he was called up for NS. Chow was offered a deferment to pursue his foundation studies. But in 2009, he applied unsuccessfully to defer NS for university.
After graduating from the University of Western Australia in 2013, Chow returned to Singapore and completed his NS last year. He is currently undergoing a cadet pilot programme at ST Aerospace Academy.
Delivering his oral judgment on Thursday, Justice Chan Seng Oon allowed the prosecution’s appeal and said he would have given Chow three months' jail "if not for the fact that his performance during NS was outstanding".
However, he rejected the defence’s request to defer sentencing, saying that enough time had been given.
In the appeal hearing last October, Second Solicitor-General Kwek Mean Luck argued for the High Court to set a sentencing benchmark of four months’ jail for young men who were able to serve NS but had dodged conscription for more than two years.
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