The youth allegedly used a serrated knife to attack a man at the Rest Bugis Hotel in Jalan Kubor on March 27, 2023. - SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The Indonesian teenager and a woman identified as Norliana Hazuliani, 23, were each handed an assault charge on Wednesday (March 29).
The pair and one Mohammad Ghufran Sinarfadhli, 22, allegedly used a serrated knife to attack a man at the Rest Bugis Hotel in Jalan Kubor at around 11.30am on Monday.
The pair’s cases have been adjourned to April 5 while Ghufran is expected to be charged on Thursday.
For using a weapon to assault another person, an offender can be jailed for up to seven years, fined, caned, or receive any combination of such punishments.
Norliana, who is Singaporean, cannot be caned as she is a woman.
On Wednesday, the police said officers were alerted to the case shortly before noon on Monday.
A spokesman added: “Officers (arrived at) the scene and discovered blood stains in a hotel room. A... woman was found with lacerations and taken conscious to (a) hospital.
“She was arrested for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means with common intention and suspected drug-related offences.”
Officers from Central Police Division managed to establish the identities of the people involved in the case. They arrested three men and a second woman within 24 hours of the report.
In unrelated cases, the teenager allegedly took part in an unlawful assembly with four other people at Block 99C, Lorong 2 Toa Payoh at around 2pm on July 25, 2021.
He is also accused of kicking another man’s chest at the block that day.
