SINGAPORE: The National University of Singapore student who strangled his ex-girlfriend when she declined to revive their relationship has been suspended, said the university on Monday .
The student, Yin Zi Qin, was sentenced on Friday to community-based sentences, after pleading guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing hurt, with another charge of criminal trespass taken into consideration. After the sentencing, two online petitions calling for a harsher sentence and for NUS to expel Yin surfaced. As of Monday afternoon, the petitions have garnered more than 20,000 signatures in total.
In May 2019, the victim broke up with Yin and he entered her home with an access card she had given to him.