A few days later, Toh received an email from a headhunting film offering him a job interview for the role of a programmer.
As he did not have experience as a programmer, he believed the email was sent to him as a form of harassment from his former employer.
The man felt “very angry” as he wanted his ex-employer to leave him alone and wanted revenge against the company for “disturbing him”, said Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Ng Jun Chong.
Toh also attributed the smashing of his car’s rear windscreen window over 10 years earlier to his former employer.
On Dec 6, 2023, he left his home and rode his bicycle to his former office building. Toh deliberately avoided taking public transport or a private hire vehicle to avoid detection.
He also dressed in black tactical fatigues, wore a black mask, black boots and a black helmet, and carried two hammers in his backpack.
At about 12.23pm, he parked his bicycle near the building’s front entrance. Noticing that the parking lot where the company’s founder usually parked was empty, he decided to look for the “VP’s car”.
He saw the chief operations officer’s car, a Mercedes E200, and used two hammers to smash the car’s rear windscreen, causing the whole windscreen to be shattered.
Toh then threw a hammer at the glass door of the building’s front entrance, which bounced off onto the driveway.
An employee saw him throwing the hammer at the glass door as he was walking out of the building. Just as the employee was a few metres away from the glass door, Toh threw the hammer again.