Those of us who went through National Service in the military would know all about how accidentally firing a bullet from your gun without permission would royally screw you over.
Royally screwed over indeed is former Certis Cisco corporal Gregory Lai, the 23-year-old who was sentenced to a five-month jail term earlier today, according to The Straits Times.
Here’s a quick brief overview of Lai’s story from last June:
- In Aug 13, 2015, he fired off one round from his revolver at Tuas Checkpoint in a dangerous game akin to Russian Roulette with his then-colleague Muhammad Dzul Adhar Azmi, now 22.
- Putting a single round in his revolver’s chamber, he pointed the weapon at the floor and squeezed the trigger — but nothing happened. The second time he squeezed the trigger, however, the round went off.
- Lai hid the discharged round in the battery compartment of a traffic wand and threw a second bullet into a toilet bowl before reporting that he lost two bullets there.
- Dzul, then a fellow Certis Cisco corporal, helped to throw away the discharged round into Bedok Reservoir at approximately 2am the next day.
Dzul has since been charged for obstructing the course of justice and failing to notify the police about the incident. He served a three week jail term and was fined $2,000 on Oct 21 last year.
For Lai, he was convicted on Jan 24 following a three-day trial on counts of obstructing the course of justice and hiding the truth about the incident, topped with committing the rash act in the first place.
