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Reformative training for man who abandoned dog, prank called police and threw eggs at officer

SINGAPORE — A 20-year-old man abandoned his dog and then tried to get it back from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA). A week after he was discovered to have provided false information to an AVA officer, he threw eggs at a police vehicle while on probation.

SINGAPORE — A 20-year-old man abandoned his dog and then tried to get it back from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA). A week after he was discovered to have provided false information to an AVA officer, he threw eggs at a police vehicle while on probation.

Davin Lian Ke Xiang, who had been in remand from June 21, was sentenced to reformative training on Friday (July 6).

The court heard that on April 6 last year, he abandoned the white-coloured Shih Tzu in the ground floor water pump room of his Woodlands apartment block. He did it just half an hour after he had adopted it, as his parents were against him keeping it at home.

Lian had hoped that someone would hear it barking and take it home.

Four hours later, he went down to the pump room to check on the dog, but it was no longer there as it had been brought to the AVA compound.

Lian did not hear of the dog again till April 19, when he saw a “Dog Found” notice at the void deck of his flat. He responded to it, and went to the AVA to claim the dog, telling an AVA officer that he had tied the dog’s leash to a bar outside a handicap toilet before using it, but it was gone when he came out.

Lian alleged that someone must have taken it to the pump room and left it there.

He got the dog back on April 21, but lost it eight days later claiming that it ran away when he took it out for a walk. The dog has still not been found.

Court documents did not state how his offence came to light, but only noted that an AVA officer who dealt with him, Mr Packer Mohammed Noor Mohamed, lodged a police report on the false information Lian provided him on Oct 2 last year.

Lian was subsequently charged for giving false information to a public servant, pet abandonment, and owning the dog without a licence between April 6 and 20.

About a week later, he got in trouble again for an act of mischief after he called the police emergency line at 6am. He told the police that he saw four suspicious Chinese individuals sniffing drugs at his block in Bukit Panjang Ring Road, but there was no such sighting.

When a female police officer arrived, Lian, who was standing at the chute landing outside his seventh storey flat, threw two eggs as she was exiting the vehicle. The eggs did not hit her, and she proceeded to check on Lian’s tip-off, but could not detect any sign of illegal activity.

As she was returning to the car, he threw another egg, which landed on the boot.

Investigations revealed that Lian had committed the act as he “felt stressed and decided to throw eggs to relieve his stress”, said Deputy Public Prosecutor Marshall Lim.

He made another call to the police on Oct 23 last year to report that three Chinese boys from West Spring Secondary School were suspected of taking drugs outside his flat, when there was no such activity.

For abandoning his dog, Lian could have been fined up to S$10,000, or jailed up to a year.

For committing mischief by throwing eggs, he could have been jailed for up to a year, and/or fined. As for making a telephone call to an emergency telephone number with the intent to annoy, Lian could be jailed for up to a year or fined up to S$5,000.

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