Sarawak cleaner jailed 33 years for role in 2010 'Kallang slashings'

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Sarawak cleaner jailed 33 years for role in 2010 'Kallang slashings'

Published on Jan 18, 2013

Filed photo of pedestrians walking along a poorly lit footpath along Sims Drive, often used by residents living in the area to get to and from Kallang MRT station. This path, stretching from Sims Avenue to Sims Drive, was where full-time national serviceman Ang Jun Heng was slashed repeatedly on May 30, 2010 by a gang of robbers, who have since been charged. A 23-year-old cleaner from Sarawak was on Friday jailed 33 years and ordered to be caned 24 strokes for his role in the horrific Kallang slashings in 2010. -- ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN

By Selina Lum

A 23-year-old cleaner from Sarawak was on Friday jailed 33 years and ordered to be caned 24 strokes for his role in the horrific Kallang slashings in 2010.

Hairee Anak Landak, who was 19 at the time, pleaded guilty to three charges of armed robbery with hurt.

He was initially charged with murder along with countrymen Michael Garing, 24, and Tony Imba, 34. They are among seven men arrested for the spate of violent robberies in Kallang and Sims Drive.

Hairee took part in a robbery spree of two hours between late night May 29 and early morning May 30. He was not armed but punched and kicked the victims.

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[kongsimi]

Which constituency does this belongs to?

 

[bertaka]

Which constituency does this belongs to?

When it happened in 2010, it is under the PAP constituency.

 

[IsapKonek]

When it happened in 2010, it is under the PAP constituency.

Moulmein kallang ward?

 

[Hudson]

Moral of the story - Do not walk in dark shady footpath.

Singapore is no longer safe with all the foreigners.

 

[CCB PAP]

Moral of the story: When in Rome do what the romans do. When in sinkieland do anything u want but don't get caught.

 

[bertaka]

Moulmein kallang ward?

Sorry, don't know coz PAP kept changing the boundaries. But in 2010, that unsafe dimly lighted path, stretching from Sims Avenue to Sims Drive definitely under the PAP.

 

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Death and life in prison for two men from Sarawak convicted of 2010 Kallang slashings

Published on Apr 20, 2015 11:50 AM

Michael Anak Garing (left) was given the death sentence, and Tony Imba will serve life in prison. -- PHOTOS: ST FILE

By Hoe Pei Shan

SINGAPORE - Two men from Sarawak, Malaysia, convicted of murder for the brutal 2010 slashings here at Kallang were finally sentenced on Monday, with one headed to the gallows and the other jailed for life.

Micheal Garing, 26, and Tony Imba, 36, were part of a gang that went on a robbery spree, severely injuring three victims and killing a fourth man.

Both Michael and Tony were found guilty of murder last year after a 12-day trial the year before. It has been almost another year before they learnt their fates.

Michael, whom High Court Judge Choo Han Tek had said that evidence showed was the one who had struck the dead man, was given the death sentence.

Tony will be serving life in prison and given 24 strokes of the cane.

Michael's lawyer, Mr Ramesh Tiwary, said his client will be appealing his sentence.

The pair and two accomplices had attacked and robbed the four men in the Kallang area from late in the night of May 29, 2010 until the early hours of the next day.

Before the fatal assault on 41-year-old construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai, they set upon two construction workers from India - Mr Sandeep Singh, 27, and Mr Egan Karuppaiah, 46 - and Singaporean Ang Jun Heng, 22.

The dead man had a fractured skull, a severed left hand, a slash wound across his neck and a back wound so deep that his shoulder blade was cracked.

One accomplice, Donny Meluda, 23, is at large. The other, Hairee Landak, 22, was sentenced to 33 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane for armed robbery with grievous hurt. He testified in the trial.