THREE prisoners faced charges in the High Court on Tuesday for physically and sexually assaulting a fellow inmate in Changi Prison last year.
The trio, aged 20 to 21, indicated that they would admit to the physical assault charges but disputed all the sexual offences.
All three are accused of making the 22-year-old victim perform oral sex on them, while one of them is also accused of sodomising him.
They are also alleged to have forced him to swallow human faeces - a charge all three have denied.
The charges were read out to the accused persons but no plea was taken.
The trial judge, Justice Tay Yong Kwang, explained to the trio that they will plead guilty before another judge to those charges that they have admitted.
After they are sentenced on those charges, the case will go back to Justice Tay for the trial on the disputed charges to be conducted.
The trio - Iryan Abdul Karim, Muhammad Hamdan Abdul Rahman, Mohammed Zameen Abdul Manoff - are not represented in court by a lawyer.
Lawyer Rajan Supramaniam was in court on a watching brief for the victim, who cannot be named under a court order.
The trio, aged 20 to 21, indicated that they would admit to the physical assault charges but disputed all the sexual offences.
All three are accused of making the 22-year-old victim perform oral sex on them, while one of them is also accused of sodomising him.
They are also alleged to have forced him to swallow human faeces - a charge all three have denied.
The charges were read out to the accused persons but no plea was taken.
The trial judge, Justice Tay Yong Kwang, explained to the trio that they will plead guilty before another judge to those charges that they have admitted.
After they are sentenced on those charges, the case will go back to Justice Tay for the trial on the disputed charges to be conducted.
The trio - Iryan Abdul Karim, Muhammad Hamdan Abdul Rahman, Mohammed Zameen Abdul Manoff - are not represented in court by a lawyer.
Lawyer Rajan Supramaniam was in court on a watching brief for the victim, who cannot be named under a court order.