A 61-YEAR-OLD woman was slashed in the right arm a few times when she stoutly refused to give up her handbag to a robber, a court heard.

Assailant Chu Kiew Wen, 33, was jailed on Wednesday for 61/2 years and ordered to be given 18 strokes of the cane. Housewife Sholiyah Mohamed Shariff was walking at the void deck of a block of flats in New Upper Changi Road in the early hours on May 11 when Chu blocked her way and tried to grab her handbag.

Although she was in pain, she did not release her grip and continued to scream for help.

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