---
title: "Man discovered with knife by security volunteers at church where priest was stabbed in mouth in Nov"
url: "/singapore-seen/man-discovered-with-knife-by-security-volunteers-at-church-where-priest-was-stabbed"
published: "2024-12-01T10:05:11.000Z"
updated: "2024-12-01T14:50:07.000Z"
section: "Singapore Seen"
tags: ["church","knife","Upper Bukit Timah"]
---

# Man discovered with knife by security volunteers at church where priest was stabbed in mouth in Nov

A man was found with a knife at the Bukit Timah church where a priest was stabbed in the mouth in November.

The police were alerted on Dec 1 at about 12.35pm that a man was discovered with a folding knife in his pocket by church security volunteers at St Joseph's Church at 620 Upper Bukit Timah Road.

When the police arrived, the 36-year-old man was compliant and the folding knife was seized.

The man is a regular attendee at the church and believed to be a handyman, who purportedly forgot to keep the folding knife with his other tools after an earlier job.

He is currently assisting police with investigations, which are ongoing.

Less than a month earlier at the same church, Reverend Christopher Lee, 57, was stabbed in the mouth during mass on Nov 9 evening,

Basnayake Keith Spencer, 37, was charged on Nov 11 with one count of voluntarily causing grievous hurt with a dangerous weapon.