On April 11 2017, Neo Gim Huah slapped Amos Yee as he walking to the State Courts for his hearing. Neo was fuelled by his anger towards Yee’s actions and decided to personally teach him a lesson. I think that the most important point of this story was why Neo slapped Yee.

This news story involves news values such as Proximity, as this story occurs in Singapore, Action, as Neo Gim Huah slapped Amos Yee, as well as human interest as it involves Singaporeans.

The context for this story is that Amos Yee had made a video criticising the late Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew, just days after his passing. Neo Gim Huah, who owns an air-conditioning and electrical engineering company was angered by this and took the initiative to ‘teach him a lesson’ due to his lack of faith in the Singapore justice system. He then proceeded to slap Amos Yee, in front of the media to garner attention for his actions.

I think that this story is prominent as it involves Amos Yee, someone had created a huge controversy in Singapore. It will inform people who are watching his case progress on the events occurring to him. It also involves a civilian who has no relation with Amos Yee, engaging in violent actions as well as publicising this. Readers will find this interesting as it is a very unique and rare situation to occur in Singapore.