SINGAPORE, Feb. 25 -- A man who assaulted a taxi driver after quarrelling with his fiancee in the back of the vehicle was sentenced to 12 weeks' imprisonment on Wednesday.

The court heard that 53 year old Singaporean Phay Jet Loon attacked the driver while the taxi was travelling along the Central Expressway, forcing the victim to swerve across several lanes to the road shoulder, CNA reported.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Daniel Foo told the court: "In summary, this was an unjustified and sustained attack on a vulnerable ... class of victims, to a vulnerable part of the victim's body, and the victim himself was also in a vulnerable position of limited mobility."

Phay's lawyer, Thomas Tham, told the court that his client had been drinking w...