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It started off with a quarrel over a billiard cue hitting a beer jug in a karaoke lounge and ended with a patron stabbed to death with an ice-pick in the car park. On Tuesday, David How Kim Fwee, 64, pleaded guilty to committing culpable homicide and causing the death of Mr Sim Kim Hock in the early hours of Oct 14 two years ago. He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
The High Court heard that the killing took place in a multi-storey car park outside the Grand City KTV & Lounge on the fifth floor of the City Plaza mall in Geylang. Both men were regulars at the lounge. On that evening, Mr Sim, 46, a manager of an entertainment business, was there with store assistant Raymond Ong Sim Eng and several friends. At 1am, Mr Ong, 38, and How were playing billiards when the latter's cue bumped into the beer jug that Mr Sim was holding. An argument broke out but Mr Ong convinced How to resume playing.
However once the game was over, he helped himself to an ice-pick from the bar counter. Tucking it in the back of his pants, he waited in the car park.
The lounge manager, Ms Kaina Koh Chen Yee, 32, went after him but failed to persuade him to hand over the ice-pick.
Instead, he started complaining about Mr Sim's attitude over the beer jug incident earlier. Some 30 minutes later, Mr Sim stepped outside to use the washroom. He confronted the older man, who was still grumbling. A fight broke out and Mr Sim was stabbed five times with the ice-pick, once through the heart.
In October 2009 when How was charged with murder, he appeared in court with a black eye and bruises on his head. The charge was later reduced to culpable homicide after defence counsel Subhas Anandan and Sunil Sudheesan informed the Attorney-General's Chambers that there could be some element of provocation.
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