Local jazz singer Dawn Ho (centre) at the Mosaic Music Festival with her guitarist Munir Alsagoff (left) and percussionist ...
An incident after her regular evening show at Sentosa on Sunday left local jazz singer Dawn Ho with a swollen face and a bleeding nose. She and her friend were attacked by a man and a woman while they were being picked up at a taxi stand.
Taking to Facebook on Monday night, Ho wrote in her account of the incident that she was waiting for her bandmates to pick her up at a taxi stand when she witnessed the man and his two friends -- one female, one male -- approaching a limousine taxi and speaking to the driver and the limousine staff rudely.
'(They shouted) in the most demeaning way to the cab driver and limo service personnel, complaining about the $43 per trip fee of the limo and telling the limo service staff, 'you are MY b***h!' repeatedly,' she wrote.
Ho said she then went up to the trio to inform them that she felt they should not be speaking to the driver in that manner, but was met with vulgarity and verbal abuse from one of the two men, who started chasing Ho as she moved toward her bandmates' car.
The man's female friend also stepped out of the limousine, brandishing a beer bottle, and 'tried to get violent' with Ho, she wrote, adding that the beer bottle landed on Ho's guitarist and friend Munir Alsagoff, who had gotten out of his car to restrain the woman.
'While my friends were trying to restrain her, (the man who was shouting abuse at Ho) came up to the car, which I was already in, and punched me in my face and gave me a bloody nose,' she wrote. 'Which his response to was, 'Why did you punch yourself?'... when he saw that he had made me bleed he showed no remorse. Even when I announced I was gonna call 999 right away.'
Ho said she spoke to the police, got into an ambulance and took X-rays at a hospital, adding that the bleeding from her nose only stopped late Monday morning -- the next day. She also said she has since filed a police report against him, hoping the police will either take action against him or she would file a civil suit against him for voluntarily causing hurt.
The image of a man who listed his name on Facebook as Aaron Jeremiejczyk, who allegedly attacked local jazz singer ...
She also revealed the name of her attacker, who was listed on Facebook as Aaron Jeremiejczyk. After going public with details about the attack and his picture, the latter took his Facebook profile down, although he is understood to have worked with drink brand Red Bull previously.
Ho's Facebook post is also travelling quickly, clocking in more than 450 shares since she posted it on Monday night.
Users tracked down Jeremiejczk's employer, restaurant and bar The Exchange, where he works as a marketing executive, and informed its management of what he allegedly did.
Responding to the post on its Facebook page, management for The Exchange said in a statement that they are suspending him 'with immediate effect' pending a full internal investigation into the incident, as well as the outcome of the police's investigations into it.
'We wish to highlight that the alleged incident occurred when Mr Jeremiejczk was (in) Sentosa during his day off from work,' the statement said. 'Any alleged actions taken by Mr Jeremiejczk were in a purely personal capacity.'
The company's management also called for calm while 'subsequent due process' is taken, should it be required, as the police also completes its investigation into the case.
'The management of Tadcaster Hospitality (the parent company of The Exchange) sends its sincerest heartfelt concerns to Ms Ho and wishes her a speedy recovery from her physical and mental hurt,' it added.
Yahoo Singapore has reached out to Ho for more information.
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