He went absent without official leave (AWOL) for more than five years to pursue his studies in Britain.
Wang Yinchu, then a 22-year-old full-time national serviceman, was one month away from completing his national service when he left Singapore on Oct 8, 2008 to pursue his pre-clinical medical studies at the University of Cambridge.
After he returned on July 2 last year, he pleaded guilty to being AWOL and was sentenced to three weeks’ detention.
But the chief military prosecutor appealed against this sentence in the military court of appeal on May 29 and urged a stiffer sentence.
He was then given 18 months’ detention.
Source: www.tnp.sg
