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A drunken assault on a newspaper vendor in Central has brought an unemployed Filipino a two-month jail sentence.
Principal Magistrate Don So
handed down the sentence today on J. Dagohoy, 37 years old, at Eastern Court as
a result of his guilty plea last Sept. 20.
Dagohoy was originally
charged with common assault, to which he pleaded not guilty.
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But he reversed his plea and
averted what was scheduled as a pre-trial review scheduled for that day after
the charge was changed to “inflicting grievous bodily harm.”
The charge arose from an
altercation last March 9 between Dagohoy, who was drunk at the time and causing
a commotion, and a local man named Cheung Chun Yu, who operated a newspaper
stand in front of the Bangkok Bank building on Des Voeux Road Central.
The fight left Cheung, who allegedly pushed Dagohoy away from his store and was punched in return, with a minor cut on the face.
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