Edmund Kam Wei Liang, 23-years-old, pleaded guilty to 4 charges including rioting and lying to the authorities and was sentenced on 7 January to 17 months and 5 weeks imprisonment, as well as a fine of $4,000.
He was a gang member and saw his friend using a knife to attack another man but lied to the police about it when he was brought to the police station for questioning.
Five more charges were considered for his sentencing, including breaching of Covid-19 rules.
What happened?
Kam was part of a gang in Singapore from 2014 to 2020 and on 10 May 2020, he was with Teo Shou Ren,29-years-old, at a garden in Jurong West when the latter attacked the victim, Teo Jia Wei, 27-years-old.
Kam didn’t join in the assault but he saw his friend using the knife to attack the victim, Kam was then arrested the following day but did not tell the police the truth.
Kam later admitted to the police that he saw Shou Ren carrying the knife behind his back at the time of the attack, and the latter was then charged with voluntarily causing hurt with a dangerous weapon.
Not the only incident
In a separate incident on 18 November 2018, Kam took part in a fight at a Thai disco, Club V5 at Ming Arcade, where he was drinking with his gang members.
One of the gang members, Tan Hong Sheng, got angry after another man bumped into him, and he challenged the man to a fight.
The friend of the man, Chionh Teck Soon, 26-years-old, stepped in to intervene and was attacked by the other gang members, who kicked and punched him in the face and body.
Tan and another gangster, Dino Teo Wei Chiang, 26-years-old, both picked up a glass bottle and hit Chionh in the head.
The fight lasted about 3 minutes and the assailants then fled the scene when they realised that the police were notified about the fight.
Chionh was sent to hospital with injuries to his head and a cut on his arm.
Some of the gangsters have already been dealt with including Tan, who was jailed for 32 months and 4 strokes of the cane.