Orchard Road Fatal Brawl: jail, spears for 5 men who rained blows to the ex-Bopercer in 2023

Singapore – Five men linked to a 2023 Fatal Brawl around the Hotel Concorde They were sentenced to prison and prison on February 25. They had rained to a former goalkeeper who was supposedly killed by another member of his group.

Three of the men, Sridharan Elangovan, 30, Bojkumar Velayanatham, 32, and Sashikumar Pakirsamy, 34, were repeated criminals.

The trio were also members of a secret society at the time of the attack against Mr. Mohammad Isrrat Mohd Ismail, 29, who took place on the morning of August 20, 2023.

Sridharan, who received a fine of $ 4,500 in 2022 for voluntarily causing damage, was sentenced to three years in prison and six cane blows on February 25.

Bojkumar was sentenced to 2 and a half years in jail and four strokes of the cane. It was fined $ 3,000 in 2019 per assault.

Sashikumar, who received a fine of $ 3,000 in 2014 for using threatening words on a public servant, was sentenced to two years in jail and two blows from the cane for his last crime.

When sentenced to the trio, the district judge Eddy Tham said that the fact that they were members of the secret society at the time of 2023 disturbances was not considered.

The judge added that his crimes were not initiated by a gang leader and pointed out that it was the ISRAT group that had decided to arm that morning.

However, Judge Tham emphasized that an act of disturbances with violence takes very seriously, noting that Mr. Isrrat was attacked by a large group of people and was killed after an “opportunistic use” of a knife.

A fourth fuss, Rishi, 28 years old, was sentenced to 2 and a half years from the jail and four blows of the cane on February 25, while a fifth offender, Puthenvilla Keith Peter, 26, was sentenced to two years and two months in jail and three blows of El Cabel.

On February 13, the five Singapurenses He declared himself guilty of one count each of disturbances.

A sixth man, Asvain Pachan Pillai Sukumran, 30, received a murder position before after Mr. Isrrat was allegedly killed. Your case is pending.

In previous procedures, the attached prosecutors Kathy Chu and Brian so told the Court that the six men and other members of the group of disturbances went to the rumors of clubs in Concorde Hotel and Shopping Mall in Orchard Road in the early hours of the 20th of August 2023.

Around 4.45 am, two of the clubs The old Buncers, Mr. Isrrat and Muhammad Shahrulnizam Osman, arrived there when Mr. Isrrat wanted to pass their wedding invitation cards to their employees.

Prosecutors said both men were members of another secret society.

The club’s main goalkeeper noticed that the men of the disturbance group, which included members of another gang, were close.

He alerted his colleagues, and several men, including Shahrulnizam and Mr. Isrrat, were assembled with knives.

The rumors of the club closed around 6 in the morning, which led customers to leave and go to an exit to Kramat Lane.

Mr. Isrrat and Shahrulnizam shouted vulgarities to the men of the disturbance group. The group members faced the couple.

A fight broke out and Shahrulnizam used a knife to cut three men. He and Mr. Isrrat escaped, pursued by the disturbance group.

The prosecutors told the court that Isrrat saw a friend of the group of riots and stabbed the man on his forehead before fleeing. Meanwhile, Shahrulnizam, who was ahead of Mr. Isrrat, went to a corridor out of the club’s rumors and handed the knife to one of his gorillas.

When Shahrulnizam turned, he saw the group of disturbances running after Mr. Isrrat.

Bojkumar, Sridharan, Sashikumar, Puthenvilla and Raja surrounded Mr. Isrrat and rained blows to him.

Mr. Isrrat escaped, but Bojkumar, Puthenvilla and Raja reached him and kicked him.

Mr. Isrrat managed to escape again and the group pursued him. His knife fell to the ground when one of its members pushed him.

Five men, including Raja, Bojkumar and Sridharan, kicked Mr. Isrrat.

The prosecutors said: “Asvain collected the small knife (Mr. Isrrat) had fallen and stabbed (he) with him several times.”

After that, Sridharan got one more kick about Mr. Isrrat, who was bleeding profusely.

The group left the neighborhood and staff of club rumors required an ambulance. Mr. Isrrat was taken to the Hospital Tan Tock Seng, where he was declared dead around 7 am

In December 2024, Shahrulnizam, then 31, He was sentenced to two years and nine months in jail, and he was ordered to receive 12 blows from the cane.

He had declared himself guilty of crimes, including two charges of voluntarily wounded with a dangerous weapon.

• Shaffiq Alkhatib is the correspondent of the Straits Times Court, which mainly covers criminal cases heard in the state courts.

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