Taipei Times
Date: Jan 23, 2020
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Supreme Court yesterday upheld an earlier ruling in which Taipei Prison inmate Kuo Yi-fan (郭亦凡) was sentenced to an addtional four years and six months in prison for stabbing his cellmate in the face and blinding him.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court said that Kuo, 34, had responded extremely to a minor squabble, and he should have known that stabbing the pointed end of a pen into a person’s eye would do serious harm.
When the attack occurred in June 2018, Kuo was serving a sentence for a narcotics conviction.
After the initial ruling, Kuo kept appealing the decision, as he believed the sentence was too harsh. He wanted to pay the victim compensation, but he and his family could not come up with the money, so his appeals were rejected. [FULL STORY]