A 49-year-old Australian man, Andrew Gosling, pleaded guilty on 25 February to committing a rash act that led to the death of 73-year-old Nasiari Sunee.
He also admitted to causing grievous hurt to the deceased’s wife, Ms Manisah Sitri, was suffered injuries to her right shoulder.
Gosling had thrown a wine bottle down from the 7th storey of a condominium in Spottiswoode Park Road in 2019, and as a result, cause the death of Nasiari who suffered a fatal skull fracture.
Gosling has since been sentenced to 5 and a half years in jail for killing the man in 2019.
What happened?
Andrew Gosling was at the lift landing on the 7th floor on 18 August 2019 at about 8.30pm when he threw a wine bottle down at a group of people on the 5th floor barbecue area.
The deceased was attending a housewarming party of a relative when the wine bottle hit him, and it also hit his wife.
The deceased’s eldest daughter, spoke to Straits Times in an interview that their relatives had heard two thuds before her father fell onto the floor with a wound on his head.
A glass bottle was then spotted nearby and one of the relatives who is a nurse, attended to his injuries before he was conveyed to SGH in an ambulance.
The eldest daughter said that her father’s heart stopped three times during the treatment and the family ultimately decided not to revive him if it stopped for a fourth time, because they didn’t want to prolong his pain.
The victim passed away the next morning at 9am after his blood pressure dipped, and he was buried on 20 August.
The police then went door to door at the condo in an attempt to find the suspect after the incident, and residents were reportedly shown a picture of an Italian wine bottle.
They were also asked if they were willing to provide fingerprint samples and if they had been drinking wine, and Gosling was then arrested on 28 August.