A recalcitrant offender, who has been in and out of jail multiple times for offences including drug and violence-related ones, was sentenced to 12 years’ preventive detention on Tuesday after attacking two people with a knife. In preventive detention, a repeat...
Before committing the knife attack, he had rented a flat in Yishun with a 62-year-old Singaporean man and also began a relationship with a woman known only as Tuti.In earlier proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutor Matthew Choo said that the suspicions were unfounded.On June 23, 2022, Abdul Karim returned home at about 8.20pm after consuming alcohol and methamphetamine.
At about 8.25pm, the former flatmate and his Indonesian girlfriend, 42, went to the flat to pick up some of his clothes. Abdul Karim, who was waiting at the lift lobby, saw them when they reached the 10th floor. He entered the lift and slashed his former flatmate. The lift doors then closed with the two men inside. Abdul Karim continued slashing and stabbing the victim as the lift descended to the first storey.
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