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SINGAPORE – A teenager who was involved in a fight in Chinatown, which also resulted in injuries, was sentenced Friday (November 27) to at least one year of reformatory training for being part of an illegal assembly and other crimes.
Muhammed Shazryl Hykel Abdullah, 19, will be detained in a converted training center and forced to follow a strict regimen that includes foot exercises and counseling.
A video of the hand-to-hand combat on May 10 was captured by a closed-circuit television camera and was later shared widely on social media. The clip shows two groups of people fighting along a corridor on the 16th floor of Block 101 Upper Cross Street, People’s Park Center.
Shazryl, who suffered lacerations to his left thigh and stab wounds to his back, had faced a series of charges when he was brought to court earlier this year.
On November 2, he pleaded guilty to two unrelated counts of cheating, as well as one count each of possessing drug utensils and being part of the illegal assembly linked to the fight.
He also admitted to having committed a crime under the Covid-19 Law (Temporary measures).
The fight took place during the breaker period from April 7 to June 1, when people were not allowed to leave their homes without a valid reason or to meet other people from different households to socialize.
Eight other charges were considered during sentencing, mainly for cheating.
Shazryl was on the run from the law for cheating offenses when the fight broke out.
After obtaining a woman’s credit cards from Dani Zulastri Mohamed Salim, Shazryl illegally used one of them on November 16 last year to purchase two iPhones worth nearly $ 3,000 in total at Mustafa Center.
Later that day, he used another of his cards to buy two more iPhones for a total value of nearly $ 4,000 at a store in the VivoCity mall.
The four devices later sold for about $ 6,000 in total.
The rightful owner of the cards made a police report and Shazryl was charged with cheating on December 2 of last year. But he did not appear in court on March 25 of this year and an arrest warrant was issued against him.
On May 10, Shazryl and her friends got into a fight with a rival group over a woman. During the fight, two people cut Shazryl with knives before fleeing the scene.
Police were alerted and Shazryl was found lying behind a pillar in a parking lot, bleeding profusely from his injuries. Then an ambulance rushed him to Singapore General Hospital.
Police also learned that he had a warrant for his arrest.
One of his attackers, Noor Najat Alwi, 21, was sentenced on November 12 to at least one year of reformer training. The case involving 19-year-old Muhammad Ilham Noordin, who is also accused of stabbing Shazryl, is still pending.
The cheating case against Dani, 20, is also pending.
For each count of cheating, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
For being part of an illegal gathering, an offender can be imprisoned for up to five years and fined or punished.
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