It’s been nearly seven months since the Shangri-La shooting incident, in which police opened fire on a vehicle which crashed through a police checkpoint near a high-level security summit.
The driver — 34-year-old Mohamad Taufik Zahar — was killed during the shootout. This morning however, his friend — who pressured Taufik to accelerate — has received his due sentence. 26-year-old Muhammad Syahid Mohamed Yasin has been slapped with seven years in jail as well as three strokes of the cane for three drug-related charges and one count of abetting a rash act, Channel NewsAsia reports.
Syahid was one of the three people in the car when they were stopped for checks at a police barricade near Shangri-La hotel. With a bag of heroin inside the car as well as having consumed drugs (among other offences), the trio feared getting caught and tried to escape.
The other passenger in the car, Mohamed Ismail, was already sentenced in June this year. He received eight years’ imprisonment as well as three strokes of the cane for two counts of possession and one count of drug consumption.
