Man jailed for killing national soccer player

SINGAPORE: A man who attacked a national youth soccer player with a knife was sentenced to 10 years in a Singapore jail and ordered to be given 16 strokes of the cane, it was reported yesterday. 

The High Court jailed Norhisham Mohamad Dahlan, 23, for 10 years after finding him guilty of manslaughter, The Straits Times said. 

Norhisham, who was arrested in June last year after hiding in Malaysia, was the sixth person to be prosecuted in the killing. 

He and two others who are still on the run used knives in the stabbing of Sulaiman Hashim, 17. 

Norhisham and seven others confronted Sulaiman and his two friends on May 31, 2001, thinking he was from a rival gang, the High Court was told on Monday. 

Sulaiman's friends managed to flee, but the promising under-18 soccer player was stabbed to death outside a pub. – dpa 

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