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Aug 2, 2024, 9:13:19 PM8/2/24

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SINGAPORE - A Singapore Civil Defence Officer who was jailed for pushing a man into a fire station pump well owned up right away when the station commander asked how the full-time national serviceman had fallen into the well, but said he had been instructed to do so by another officer.

Muhammad Nur Fatwa Mahmood had admitted to it when station commander, Major Huang Weikang, asked how Corporal Kok Yuen Chin had fallen in, said Staff Sergeant Al-Khudaifi Chang, 26, on Monday (July 22) as he recounted the events in the immediate aftermath of the fatal incident on May 13 last year.

"Fatwa raised his hand to answer the question. He said he was the one that pushed Cpl Kok in and Farid was the one who told him to push," said Staff Sgt Chang, taking the witness stand on the first day of Mohamed Farid Mohd Saleh's trial for instigating Nur Fatwa to make the push.

Last October, Nur Fatwa was sentenced to one year and four weeks in jail for pushing Cpl Kok into the well and telling another officer to delete footage of the incident. He is currently under home detention.

Recounting details of what took place at the station after the incident, Staff Sgt Chang said Fatwa had asked him and other officers just as they were about to give their statements to the police if they had heard Farid instruct him to push Cpl Kok into the pump well.

SCDF Corporal Kok Yuen Chin was pushed into the pump well at Tuas View Fire Station during a celebration, a Board of Inquiry has found. When he didn't emerge, his colleagues tried to rescue him, but he was located only 36 minutes after he went in.

"I told Fatwa that I didn't hear such a thing. I don't remember what the others told him," said Staff Sgt Chang, noting that there was a lot of commotion around the well just before Cpl Kok fell in and he did not pay attention to the conversations around him.

However, court documents said Farid did not see who did this or how it happened, and he remained in the control room to have a second helping of cake and talk to rota commander Kenneth Chong Chee Boon.

Concurrently, Chong, 38, a lieutenant, and Nazhan Mohamed Nazi, 40, a first senior warrant officer, who were both in charge of the station on the night of the incident, are also in the midst of an ongoing trial. They are each contesting a charge of aiding a rash act that caused grievous hurt by illegal omission.

The fifth officer, Adighazali Suhaimi, 33, a staff sergeant, was jailed a month in December last year after he pleaded guilty to intentionally obstructing the course of justice by deleting video footage that showed Cpl Kok sitting at the edge of the pump well. He has finished his sentence.