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Australian accused of pushing wife out of window

Other News Materials 21 May 2008 06:58 (UTC +04:00)

( dpa ) - An Australian man was charged in a Singapore court with attempted murder in pushing his Thai wife out of a fourth-floor window, news reports said on Wednesday.

Jason John Porteous, 35, was accused of shoving Madam Pimchanok out of the bedroom window of their condominium, The Straits Times said.

Porteous, a Singapore resident doing administrative work, was sent for psychiatric assessment. He is scheduled to appear in court again on June 3.

If convicted, Porteous faces life imprisonment, caning and a fine.

His wife, in her early 30s, has been in an intensive care unit since the incident on Sunday.

Neighbours told the newspaper they saw her lying on the ground beside a drain, bleeding and unable to speak.

The woman, her husband and sister had moved to the city-state two to three months ago.

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