An 18-year-old boy pleaded guilty in court on 3 March, to partially cutting the rope of a gondola lift attached to a construction worker’s harness on the 26th floor.
The construction cleaner, who was cleaning windows on the 27th floor of a building at Bayshore Road, stopped cleaning the building and reported the incident to his supervisor.
The 18-year-old also pleaded guilty to a slew of other offences, including one count of outrage of modesty, one count of mischief, one count of transmitting a false message to the police, one count of theft and two counts of cheating.
The accused cannot be named because he was underaged at the time of his offences.
What happened?
Sometime between January and March 2016, the accused molested his classmate who was 13-years-old by brushing his hand against her upper thigh and her buttock over her clothes.
Sometime in December 2017, he used a can of lubricant that he found to spray on lift buttons to make them slippery, thinking it would be funny if the lift users accidentally pressed the wrong buttons.
He sprayed the lubricant onto the lift buttons at a building in Bayshore Road.
He also took his friend’s phone on 29 October 2018 and used it to call the police, saying he was kidnapped, “don’t kill me”, transmitting a false message to the police.
He also committed theft on 9 September 2019 by entering a cafe that was closed and stealing two packets of instant noodles.
He also cheated two victims sometime in October 2021, lying that he was selling an in-game item from the game Growtopia, running the ruse on other victims and cheating them of $551.
9 other charges will be considered for his sentencing.
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