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Kallang attackers allegedly challenged victim to fight

SINGAPORE — After he was hit on the head, his attackers purportedly challenged him to a fight. This was according to 22-year-old Ang Jun Heng, who lost four fingers when he was attacked by a group of construction workers allegedly behind a spate of violent robberies three years ago which left two other people seriously injured and one dead.

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SINGAPORE — After he was hit on the head, his attackers purportedly challenged him to a fight. This was according to 22-year-old Ang Jun Heng, who lost four fingers when he was attacked by a group of construction workers allegedly behind a spate of violent robberies three years ago which left two other people seriously injured and one dead.

Two men, Micheal Anak Garing, 25, and Tony Anak Imba, 34, are on trial for the murder of 41-year-old construction worker Shanmuganathan Dillidurai, with Micheal accused of slashing the Indian national with a parang.

Two other victims, Mr Egan Karuppaiah, 46, and Mr Sandeep Singh, 27, testified earlier this week.

Testifying yesterday at the High Court, Mr Ang said he was on his way to his Sims Drive home on the night of May 29, 2010, when he noticed a group of people walking past him. Even though they were looking at him, he thought nothing of it, as he had seen many foreign workers use the makeshift path.

He was then “hit at the back of his head with a hard object” as he approached an overhead bridge. Before he could respond, he was set upon by his attackers.

“I did not see a weapon being used. However, I knew that I was being struck with a weapon, which is probably a knife or some object,” said Mr Ang, who is studying at the University of Virginia in America.

Mr Ang said he lost consciousness during the attack. When he awoke, he recalled feeling very weak.

“The only injury I remember at the time was the one to my head. I remembered my scalp was flapping, and I was holding it down with my right hand,” he said. Half of his left palm was severed in the attack.

Like Mr Karuppaiah and Mr Singh, Mr Ang said he could not recognise any of his attackers.

“They had tanned complexion. I do not know how many of them attacked me. They were probably in their twenties,” he added.

Micheal and Tony are among four men — all from Sarawak and working here — who were alleged to have carried out four violent robberies from the late night of May 29, 2010, to the early hours of May 30, 2010.

One of the men, Hairee Anak Landak, was sentenced to 33 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the cane in January after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery with grievous hurt.

An alleged accomplice, Donny Meluda, is still at large.

Micheal and Tony have been charged under a less severe limb of the murder offence, which gives the court the discretion to impose life imprisonment with caning, if they are convicted. After changes to the Penal Code came into effect in January this year, the death penalty is only mandatory for acts carried out with the intention of causing death, while it is discretionary for the three other clauses under the offence of murder. The trial continues. AMANDA LEE

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