Singapore teens plead guilty to public nuisance charge after one of them sips juice, returns bottles to shelf
Quek Xuan Zhi and Nigel Pang Yew Ming photographed on April 9, 2020, when they were charged in court with causing public nuisance. — TODAY pic
District Judge Seah Chi-Ling today called for a report to assess if Quek Xuan Zhi, 17, and Nigel Pang Yew Ming, 18, are suitable for probation, a rehabilitative sentence usually offered to offenders under 21.Speaking on behalf of Xuan Zhi today, his lawyer Tan Hee Joek said that the teenager did not mean for the video to be circulated to the wider public, since his Instagram account had been set to private. But a friend of Xuan Zhi’s decided to circulate the video, said Tan.
The offence happened on Feb 6, when the pair visited an NTUC FairPrice supermarket at the HomeTeamNS clubhouse in Bukit Batok. By then, the original video had gone viral and was uploaded to Twitter, prompting a member of the public to file a police report. This led to the arrests of the young men.
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