By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A MAN who punched his wife who refused him sex was jailed for two weeks on Friday.

David Sim Teck Meng, 48, was originally accused of causing grievous hurt to his wife, Madam Lee Meng Choo, 40, at their Hougang home on Oct 29 last year.

He pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of voluntarily causing hurt after she made a statutory declaration that she had forgiven him and wanted to drop the charge.

Sim, who is now a shop assistant at his wife's mobile phone business, asked his wife for sex that night but she said she was tired.

Angry, he pushed her to the bed and sat on top of her and tried to remove her clothes.

She tried to defend herself and was punched by Sim a few times.

When she broke free and ran out, he pulled her back by the hair into the room. She then locked herself in and called the police.

Madam Lee suffered fractures to the facial bones, a bruise over her eye and an abrasion on her upper lip.

District Judge Jill Tan told him that his violence resulted in serious injuries to his wife and the sentence must be such that he understood the gravity of his actions.

Sim, who has previous convictions for bigamy, affray and robbery, could have been jailed fined up to $1,000 and/or jailed for up to one year.