When I Was Young

By Shaffiq, 938LIVE | Posted: 30 June 2009 1916 hrs

Changi Prison

SINGAPORE: Three prisoners faced charges in the High Court on Tuesday for physically and sexually assaulting a fellow inmate in Changi Prison last year.

The crimes allegedly took place in April and May 2008.

The trio, aged 20 to 21, indicated that they would admit to the physical assault charges but disputed all the sexual offences.

All three are accused of making the 22-year-old victim perform oral sex on them.

One of them, Mohammad Zameen Abdul Manoff, is also accused of sodomising the victim.

All three are also alleged to have forced the victim to swallow human faeces.

The charges were read out to Mohammad Zameen, Iryan Abdul Karim and Muhammad Hamdan, but no plea was taken.

The trial judge, Justice Tay Yong Kwang, explained to the trio that they will plead guilty before another judge to those charges that they have admitted.

After they are sentenced on those charges, the case will go back to Justice Tay for the trial on the disputed charges to be conducted.

The trio face more than 40 charges in all and were not represented in court by a lawyer. - 938LIVE/vm

From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.