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SINGAPORE – A former director of the Singapore Zam Zam restaurant on North Bridge Road, who devised a 2015 attack on a supervisor at the rival restaurant Victory restaurant next door, was sentenced Monday (May 11) to six years in prison and six strokes cane. .
Before sentencing Zackeer Abbass Khan, District Judge Mathew Joseph said the case was a reminder that anger should not be allowed to cloud the trial, as “the resulting consequences can be severe.”
The judge also said that “there was no place in our society for free violence.”
In March, Judge Joseph found Zackeer, 49, and former security officer Anwer Ambiya Kadir Maideen, 50, guilty of one of the charges of participating in a conspiracy to cause serious harm to Mr. Liakath Ali Mohamed. Ibrahim with a gun. The attack took place around 10 p.m. on August 26, 2015.
He also convicted Zackeer of criminal intimidation as he had threatened to harm Liakath, then 52, on August 22 of that year.
On Monday, Anwer also admitted to being a high-ranking member of a secret society. He had joined the gang in 1990 and was a “fighter” there. Judge Joseph sentenced him to a total of 5 and a half years in prison.
Zackeer and Anwer were the last two people involved in the case to be convicted. Others, including member of the secret society Joshua Navindran Surainthiran, who was 23 when he cut Mr. Liakath, have already been tried in court.
In November 2016, Joshua was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison and six strokes of cane for cuts and other offenses.
In their submissions, Deputy Prosecutors Tan Wen Hsien and Claire Poh stated that the “genesis of this ill will” dates back to 2005 when Zackeer and Mr. Liakath were business partners.
The court heard that after the business failed, Liakath joined the Victory restaurant in 2014 and created problems for Zam Zam by driving customers away and reporting his staff to the authorities.
The DPP added: “Things came to a head on August 22, 2015, when police came to restaurants to advise them to refrain from promoting themselves. Zackeer believed this was a victim trap, and that he denounced Zam Zam employees to the police.
“Outraged, Zackeer threatened the victim with hitting or killing him within a week.”
Zackeer later asked Anwer to mount an attack on Mr. Liakath and offered him money to do the job.
The court heard that Joshua, in his statements to the authorities, had said that Anwer called him on August 23, 2015 and offered him $ 2,000 to cut Liakath’s face.
Around 10 p.m., three days later, Joshua confronted Mr. Liakath on a bridge between Rochor Canal Road and Sungei Road and cut his face with a knife.
Liakath suffered a 7 cm cut on her right upper lip, which extended to her right cheek, and part of the cut went through the inner surface of the lip.
Now he has a permanent scar.
The DPPs said that after the reduction, Zackeer gave $ 2,000 to Anwer to pay Joshua. Anwer transferred $ 1,700 to Joshua’s bank account. He had given Joshua $ 200 as a down payment on August 23, 2015.
Joshua, Anwer and Zackeer were arrested on September 21, 2015, according to the court.
Defense attorney Peter Keith Fernando, who represented Anwer, told the court on Monday that his client has been an inactive member of the secret society for some time.
Anwer, who also addressed the court, told Judge Joseph that he was repentant and that he wanted to amend his customs.
He was offered bail of $ 60,000 and ordered to turn himself in to state courts on July 6 to begin serving his prison sentence.
Zackeer’s attorney, Sarbrinder Singh, said his client had not committed a gang-related crime and stressed that Joshua had not acted on the instructions of a gang.
Zackeer intends to appeal against the judge’s decisions and his bond has been set at $ 75,000.
For playing a role in voluntarily causing serious harm with a weapon, an offender can be jailed for up to 15 years and fined or punished. Anwer cannot be flogged since he is 50 years old.
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