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The bicycle wheel at the bottom of Block 1 Eunos Crescent on May 16, 2014. The wheel had fallen from the 14th floor and struck 67-year-old retiree Mahani Abdullah, who suffered serious injuries and later died. -- PHOTO: ST FILE
By Elena Chong
SINGAPORE - In May this year, a 16-year-old used a bent paper card to act as a spring to launch a bicycle wheel from the 14th floor of a housing block and hit a woman below.
A Community Court heard on Monday that the victim, 67-year-old retiree Mahani Abdullah, was walking past Block 1 Eunos Crescent when she was hit by the wheel on May 16. She died on June 6 from sepsis due to urinary tract infection.
In the dock was Abdul Hamid Rahmat, who admitted to causing grievous hurt to Madam Mahani by doing an act so rash as to endanger life, as well as to two other killer litter offences. He faced a total of five charges.
On Dec 13 last year, he caused grievous hurt to Mr Kyi Phyu Phyo Wai by hurling a brick from the 12th storey of the block, breaking the 25-year-old's right finger.
On Aug 24 last year, he threw two ceramic tiles over the parapet at the 11th floor, by tying a rope round the handle of a water dispenser and releasing it over the parapet at the 12th floor, and throwing a dumbbell over the parapet at the 13th floor.
The court heard that Abdul Hamid, who is in remand, picked up a bicycle wheel at the block's rubbish collection centre on May 16.
He suddenly felt angry and frustrated with his parents for "not being able to understand (him)''. He felt that they had nagged him incessantly about his earlier offences, and thus decided to throw the wheel from the block to vent his anger.
As he was under investigation for throwing a brick from the block, he felt it was too risky to push the wheel off the parapet.
He then carried out a test of his improvised contraption, using a bent paper name card to act as a spring to catapult the wheel when the wind blew through it. He blew at the card and the spring worked as planned but he managed to catch the wheel in time.
He went and hid in the lift and remained there to observe his plan. Shortly, he saw the card spring out before the wheel catapulted from the 14th floor. It struck Madam Mahani who had serious injuries.
Highlighting aggravating factors, Deputy Public Prosecutor Shen Wanqin said Abdul Hamid displayed a high-level of premeditation and planning.
She said he showed a complete disregard for risks of injury to innocent victims, and that the teen had taken active steps to conceal his involvement in the offences.
The court heard that he suffered from untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as well as conduct disorder, and that his risk of re-offending was high.
District Judge Lim Keng Yeow postponed sentence to Dec 23, pending pre-sentence and reformative training centre reports.
Teen pleads guilty in bike wheel killer-litter case
Elena Chong The Straits Times Thursday, Dec 04, 2014
A teen pleaded guilty yesterday to causing a bicycle wheel to be catapulted from a high floor of a Housing Board block, leading to a passer-by being seriously injured.
Abdul Hamid Rahmat, 16, was on police bail for four killer-litter offences when he grievously hurt Madam Mahani Abdullah, 67, by committing the life-endangering rash act on the 14th floor of Block 1, Eunos Crescent, on May 16.
The mother of two suffered serious injuries to her head and spinal cord. She died three weeks later from sepsis due to urinary tract infection.
The teen, represented by Mr Suresh Damodara, also admitted to causing grievous hurt to Myanmar national Kyi Phyu Phyo Wai, 25, whose right finger was broken from a brick the teen hurled from the 12th floor last Dec 13, and to committing a rash act on Aug 24 last year.
A Community Court heard that Abdul Hamid picked up a discarded bicycle wheel at the block's rubbish collection centre on May 16 this year. Then, suddenly feeling angry with his parents for "not being able to understand (him)", he decided to throw the wheel from the block to vent his anger.
He planned how to do it. He took a lift to the 14th floor and pulled out one of its cables to jam its doors open and keep the lift at that floor. He placed the wheel at the parapet and let the centre rest on a bent paper name card, causing it to tilt downwards and away from the block.
The card was to act as a spring to catapult the wheel when the wind blew through it. Later, he saw the card spring out before the wheel catapulted from the 14th floor.
In the August incident, he threw two tiles over the parapet on the 11th floor. He then pushed down a 5kg dumb-bell over the parapet on the 13th floor and a water dispenser from the 12th floor.
Citing aggravating factors, Deputy Public Prosecutor Shen Wanqin said the teen displayed a high level of pre-meditation and planning, and showed a complete disregard for the risks involved.
"His conduct had in fact endangered the lives of people and had in fact caused serious injuries to innocent victims," she added. District Judge Lim Keng Yeow called for pre-sentence and reformative training reports on Dec 23.
