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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->IN A moment of anger, a full-time police national serviceman pointed a submachine gun at his colleague last September and fired a bullet, hitting the man in the groin. He also pointed the gun at someone else earlier in the day.
Mohammad Nur Azreen Abu Samah pleaded guilty to his offences last month and was sentenced to 15 months' jail.
The 22-year-old police officer is appealing against the sentence.
At about 9pm on Sept 22 last year, Mohammad Nur Azreen and his partner Muhamed Zulkarnain Rosli found themselves locked out of the guardroom when they went there after sentry duty at the Police KINS Training Camp in Ulu Pandan Road.
Two of their colleagues had locked the door out of mischief.
When they opened it, an angry Mohammad Nur Azreen cocked his submachine gun, which was loaded with live rounds, pointed it at them and asked why they would not let him in.
One of them, Mr Sabri Mohamed, was approaching him to retrieve the weapon when Mohammad Nur Azreen squeezed the trigger.
One bullet was discharged, hitting Mr Sabri in the lower right part of his groin.
Earlier in the day, Mohammad Nur Azreen had also pointed the weapon at his partner, having taken offence at a comment he had made.
In her written judgment, the district judge said a deterrent sentence was needed to send a strong signal that such rash acts would not be tolerated.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. CAROLYN QUEK
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->IN A moment of anger, a full-time police national serviceman pointed a submachine gun at his colleague last September and fired a bullet, hitting the man in the groin. He also pointed the gun at someone else earlier in the day.
Mohammad Nur Azreen Abu Samah pleaded guilty to his offences last month and was sentenced to 15 months' jail.
The 22-year-old police officer is appealing against the sentence.
At about 9pm on Sept 22 last year, Mohammad Nur Azreen and his partner Muhamed Zulkarnain Rosli found themselves locked out of the guardroom when they went there after sentry duty at the Police KINS Training Camp in Ulu Pandan Road.
Two of their colleagues had locked the door out of mischief.
When they opened it, an angry Mohammad Nur Azreen cocked his submachine gun, which was loaded with live rounds, pointed it at them and asked why they would not let him in.
One of them, Mr Sabri Mohamed, was approaching him to retrieve the weapon when Mohammad Nur Azreen squeezed the trigger.
One bullet was discharged, hitting Mr Sabri in the lower right part of his groin.
Earlier in the day, Mohammad Nur Azreen had also pointed the weapon at his partner, having taken offence at a comment he had made.
In her written judgment, the district judge said a deterrent sentence was needed to send a strong signal that such rash acts would not be tolerated.
Read the full story in Thursday's edition of The Straits Times. CAROLYN QUEK
