Man Who Stabbed Priest at St Joseph’s Church Gets Jail, Caning
The court said the unprovoked attack caused severe injuries and carried a real risk of mass panic, and Basnayake was sentenced to 4 years, 3 months and caning.
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Man who stabbed priest at St Joseph’s Church gets jail, caning
Basnayake Keith Spencer, 38, stabbed Father Christopher Lee Kwong Heng in the mouth with a foldable knife with a partially serrated 10cm blade during communion after a children’s mass in November 2024.
St Joseph's Church stabbing: 38-year-old Singaporean man pleads guilty
Basnayake Keith Spencer, 38, who stabbed a priest at St Joseph's Church in November 2024, has been sentenced to 4 years, 3 months' and nine strokes of the cane. He pleaded guilty to his crime on Friday (Aug 21).Apart from one charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Reverend Christopher Lee, Basnayake was handed three additional charges of being in possession...
The prosecutor closed the investigation into a 38-year-old man accused of the raid. The victims had just left the mass, one of them was disabled.
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