SCDF ragging trial: Commander knew his men would make NSF Kok Yuen Chin enter well, court hears

READ: SCDF officer who pushed NSF Kok Yuen Chin into well describes incident he has guilt, nightmares over

Chong's defence lawyer Wee Pan Lee had told the court previously that there was no intention to throw CPL Kok into the well, and that Fatwa's act of pushing him inside was not announced in advance, hence"nobody expected it".enough to know that they would not do anything CPL Kok would not want to do.Mr Wee also grilled a prosecution witness, Assistant Superintendent of Police Mahathir Mohamad, on the recording of some of Chong's statements.

"I'm putting to you that he did explain to you that when he used the word 'make' it could mean two things - it could mean that the person could enter the well on his own, but could also mean that the person would have been thrown involuntarily into the well," said Mr Wee.Witness accounts heard over the course of the trial so far have placed Chong at a window on the second floor of a building when the men were gathered around the well that night.

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