IPOH: A 48-year-old insurance agent required six stitches to one of his fingers after he was repeatedly attacked by parking touts here for refusing to pay parking fees.

E.C. Looi had parked his car in front of a sundry shop along Jalan Theatre at about 1.30pm on April 2 when a woman approached him asking for money.

He refused to give her the money and continued to walk into the sundry shop. Later as he was approaching his car, two men demanded money, claiming that his car door had hit the woman.

When Looi denied such a thing had occurred, one of the men took out a knife and started asking for money.

He then ran back into the shop and the men chased him, pushing him to the floor and started attacking him.

Looi claimed there were three attempts to slash him but the first two times, he managed to use a basket as a shield. However, the third time, his finger was injured.

“As I was bleeding profusely, people started to gather at the shop and the two ran away.

“I got back to my car again when one of them smashed my back window, and the woman was lying on the road, claiming to be unconscious.

“My car keys were taken away as I was starting the engine, and I was pulled out of the car once again where they started punching me on my face,” he told a press conference organised by Canning assemblyman Wong Kah Woh at the state DAP headquarters on Tuesday.

He showed reporters the police report, CCTV recordings, as well photographs taken during the incident.

Looi said he managed to push them away and drove to the Pekan Baru police station nearby to lodge a report.

The police arrested one man, while another man managed to escape, and the woman was brought to the hospital.

Looi then went to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital to seek treatment.

However, two days after the incident when he passed by the area again, he saw the woman, and his assailant who managed to run away, back to their normal business.

Looi immediately called the police, and the two were subsequently arrested.