SINGAPORE: An 18-year-old who was in a motorcycle chase along Seletar Expressway ( SLE ) that killed a Land Transport Authority ( LTA ) officer is set to plead guilty.
The teenager, who has been remanded since early June after the fatal accident, indicated he would take up the prosecution’s plead-guilty offer in a pre-trial conference on Monday morning ( Sep 9 ).
Since he was 17 when one of his claims was brought against him, Mr. Foo Ho Chew from H C Law Practice is representing him and cannot be identified under the Children and Young Persons Act.
The teen is scheduled to enter a guilty plea on October 22 before Deputy Principal District Judge Kessler Soh.
He faces a total of 13 charges, including presenting medication at a Woodlands level, consuming meth, having a Samurai sword and riding a bicycle without a licence or insurance.
The majority of his reported crimes took place on Jun 4.
Before he was scheduled to be sent to a neighborhood treatment facility for drug-related issues, he was at the time wanted by the police for fleeing in October 2023.
When the later LTA agent, Mr. Zdulfika Ahakasah, spotted him riding a bicycle along the SLE, he demanded the young stop, but the alleged young defied his own instructions.
The girl reportedly cut across the crescent marking on the road gate and across two lanes from the highway back close to the Tampines Expressway exit in the subsequent chase.
Mr. Zdulfika was killed when he collided with two vehicles and a truck in a hospital.
The child’s event went viral according to his comment when he was initially charged and without legal picture.
He said:” I gambled my life as much as he gambled his. So the dying… Although I may be one of the causes of the dying, I am not to blame.
Of the crimes, the heftiest probable sanctions are drug-related – he could be jailed for up to 10 times, fined up to S$ 20, 000 or both for capturing or taking medicines.