Two friends jailed six weeks each for graffiti spree
Published on Jun 19, 2015 7:08 PM
Muhammad Shukri Noordin (left) and Muhammad Ismail met during National Service and talked about their interest in graffiti. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Lim Yi Han
SINGAPORE - Two friends who went on a graffiti spree, vandalising public and private property, were each jailed for six weeks on Friday.
Security guard Muhammad Shukri Noordin, 26, and lab engineer Muhammad Ismail, 27, met during National Service and talked about their interest in graffiti.
At around 11pm on Feb 17 this year, they used a black permanent marker to vandalise a Land Transport Authority (LTA) overground street lighting box on North Bridge Road.
Four hours later they vandalised another LTA overground box along Hindoo Road, before targeting other areas including a pillar at the Singapore Pools Building at Middle Road, an SP Powergrid overground box, a wooden fence along Prinsep Street and a drainage wall beside Bugis MRT station.
Both pleaded guilty last month. Neither were represented in court on Friday.
They were each sentenced by District Judge Wong Choon Ning on four counts of mischief. Muhammad Shukri had five other charges taken into consideration, while Muhammad Ismail had four others.
Both have made compensation of $310 each to SMRT and SP Powergrid.
For mischief, they could have been jailed up to a year and fined.
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