SINGAPORE: A Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) captain whose rash act caused a full-time national serviceman (NSF) to be crushed to death by a Bionix vehicle failed in his appeal to the High Court on Tuesday (May 9). Ong Lin Jie, 32, will begin his five-month jail term in two weeks. Ong had claimed tr
SINGAPORE: A Singapore Armed Forces captain whose rash act caused a full-time national serviceman to be crushed to death by a Bionix vehicle failed in his appeal to the High Court on Tuesday .Ong had claimed trial to the charge but wasThis was by ordering the victim, 22-year-old Corporal First Class Liu Kai, to overtake a Bionix Infantry Fighting Vehicle with his Land Rover during a training exercise in 2018.
As a result, the safe distance of 30m between the two vehicles was not kept and the Bionix reversed into the Land Rover, crushing CFC Liu to death. Ong was a platoon trainer in the training exercise near Sungei Gedong Camp. He was seated beside CFC Liu, giving him directions. When Ong ordered CFC Liu to overtake a Bionix vehicle that was ahead of them, without first establishing communications with the Bionix, he caused the Land Rover to be placed in dangerous proximity to the heavier vehicle.Justice See Kee Oon on Tuesday found that both factual and legal causation were established and dismissed Ong's appeals against conviction and sentence.He allowed Ong to begin serving his jail term in two weeks.
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